Hey, School Kids!

On yesterday’s blog post I talked about afterschool activities and went into the importance of remaining active after school hours come to an end. Just because school is over for the day doesn’t mean it’s time to shut down your brain! Keep that muscle moving! It’s healthy to keep it active! One great way to keep your brain working like a well-oiled machine is to keep yourself properly hydrated.

When you’re in the classroom or other school area for your afterschool activity, it can easily become a chore to have to walk down long, school corridors and up the stairs for a simple sip of water from the fountain. But you really shouldn’t deny yourself water when your body is telling you that you want some.

Drink when you please with a handy water bottle at your side for your afterschool hours. I’m sure everyone’s aware of water’s importance in our lives and extremely important to our own survival. It makes up 60% of our own bodies.

Fortunately our bodies are great at letting us know when we need to refuel in order to stay hydrated; so you definitely want to listen when your body says it needs some.

Everything Summer Camp offers a great collection of varying types of water bottles. Check out the CamelBak All Clear UV Water Bottle that purifies your water before you drink it! CamelBak All Clear turns nearly any tap or clear natural water source into potable drinking water in just 60 seconds.

Or maybe a Vapur Water Bottle is more your style. Almost 90% lighter than any rigid water bottle, Vapur Bottles are actually the antithesis of a water bottle! The Vapur Anti-Bottle stands up just like any traditional water bottle when it’s holding water. Once empty, though, the Vapur Anit-Bottle flattens, folds, and fits just about anywhere.

Check out all the rest of our water bottle at Everything Summer Camp and keep one with you for your school day and afterschool hours. Till next time!

Hello, Summer Lovers!

Welcome to Everything Summer Camp, your home for iron on labels and name labels.

Do you know how important it is to have some kind of organized activity or a place for your kids to go after school? After school activities are proven to help keep kids safe and provide academic support. They inspire kids to learn, socialize, and work on team building skills.

In today’s world, there are a lot of parents who work too much to be home by the time their kids are which just about makes after school activities a necessity.

We should encourage children to see what after school options are available that might interest them whether the activity’s focus applies more to the physical and social aspects of life or something more informational and educational. This is where your child has the choice of pursuing something that they find interesting to them.

Children love this freedom of choice and become much more eager to learn from an after school activity since they chose their specific activity for themselves (unlike school where children often perceive the learning as being more-or-less forced).

Your kids are much more likely to make friends during after school activities as opposed to the actual school day because they are around peers who all share the same interest. This leads to the likelihood of sharing other interests and making friends—peers who actually want to socialize with one another.

Along with friendship, children are much more apt to learn team building skills in after school activities rather than the group projects that kids are assigned in school. It becomes easier for them to trust each other and focus on their own specific role as just one cog in a machine.

Help get your kid interested in staying busy and keeping their brains on after school lets out! Till next time, Readers! And, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, School Preppers!

As I’m sure that your kids, department stores, and now online camp outfitter blogs refuse to let you forget that the new school year is right around the corner, I’m sure you don’t need an entire blog post to remind you to do your back to school shopping.

Today’s blog post, on the other hand, is about saving your money from camping gear you’ve already bought. Before you run off on a shopping spree to make that your kids are fully prepared for the fast-approaching school year, look through the backpacks, duffel bags, and other items you purchased for camp. Maybe you can use it again for school.

An easy one is a backpack. It certainly depends on the type of backpack that you went with for summer camp, but you might be able to get further use out of your camp backpack. You probably don’t want to use an external frame (or a backpack with any frame for that matter) for school—at least, we don’t recommend it.

On the other hand, if you purchased a frameless, normal bookbag style backpack for your camper this summer, it’ll be handy for the rest of the year too! Everything Summer Camp has a good number of quality bookbag backpacks.

We offer the High Sierra Curve as well as their Fat Boy. We have the JanSport Superbreaker. And after that we have the Kelty Redtail, the Kelty Redstart 1600, and the Kelty Shrive 2000. Anyone of these stylishly cool backpacks will certainly make your kid stand out of the crowd.

So put your wallets away for a minute and make sure that you actually need a new backpack for your kid’s upcoming school year. Maybe the backpack you bought for summer camp can be used for school too.

Well, that’s all for today, Camp Fans. Till next time.

Hello there, Blog Readers!

For today I have another one of our great employee spotlight blog posts in which you can read up on and learn about the friendly faces that can be found at Everything Summer Camp. Read on to find out about Juliann, our Graphic Artist at Everything Summer Camp.

Juliann has been aboard our business for roughly the last five months and boy, have we kept her busy! Her position demands a great deal of know-how, creativity, speed, and determination; luckily for Everything Summer Camp, Juliann is teeming with such skills. In fact, she excels at pretty much everything we throw her way.

Staying hard at work with an assortment of responsibilities, Juliann has impressed us here at Everything Summer Camp with her work and her ability to keep up with this year’s busy season which has been hectic. “There’s a lot of variety that keeps me on my toes,” she says about her workdays.

She often puts her photography skills to good use so we have detailed images of all our great products to show you. She’s in charge of the graphics on our Web site like the homepage slides and a lot more. She works on designs for our camp apparel. And lastly, she does up the images, layout, and even comes up with some fun captions for our email marketing.

Juliann went to summer camp a couple of times when she was a kid—one with a focus on basketball and another with a focus on volleyball. She recalls one summer when she was about ten years old and got to meet Nina Smith who played for the Badgers Women’s Basketball team. It was a pretty big deal to her and the rest of her camp friends Juliann told me with a smile.

That’s all for today, Camp Fans!

Hello, Summer Lovers!

Yesterday, I talked about how a C&N Footlocker from Everything Summer Camp isn’t just a trunk for summer camp. Our trunks are a treasure for the rest of your life! It becomes a very practical piece of bedroom furniture as well as one extremely valuable box to be the owner of when college-time rolls around.

Today I want to tell you about another product found at Everything Summer Camp that will prove to be extremely handy in your time at college: laundry bags! Laundry bags are essential to a clean dorm room and clean college student! When your bag is empty it doesn’t take up any space in the close quarters of college.

You can find a bunch of cool laundry bags at Everything Summer Camp; we carry a variety of fabrics, styles, and brand names. First there’s the classy laundry bag for camp clothes—Mint, then the fun Bliss brand laundry bag, we carry Nylon laundry bags of different colors and patterns, we have cool Thread Art Fashion laundry bags, and a basic Mesh laundry bag.

Mint and Bliss brand laundry bags are very stylish and very cool with fun colors and complimentary patterns. One thing to keep in mind when using these bags is that your clothes won’t dry as quickly inside these nylon and polyester bags as they would in one of our Mesh bags.

Our Nylon and Thread Art Fashion laundry bags too make for very cool, very fun designs for your laundry bag. The colors are cool and the patterns fun. Stitched with detail, these bags are top choices for laundry bags for your camp clothing. But again, keep in mind that with the fun pattern and styles, you are sacrificing dryability and breathability for your clothing.

If all you want from a laundry bag is a simple means of transit for your laundry, our Mesh laundry bag is the one for you. It may not have any cool patterns or fun colors, but it’ll get your clothes dry quicker and do the job just the same.

Till next time, Camp Fans!

John