Hey, Camp Preppers!

Are you looking for a classic backpack that’s got ample capacity and just the right look for your summer camp stay? Well, you can stop searching for the perfect backpack to take with you—it’s right here at Everything Summer Camp!

JanSport SuperBreak Backpacks portray a beautiful marriage of a basic backpack style with cool and bright colors and patterns. The collision of classic meets trendy patterns really gives this backpack its own little spunk. Pick out your favorite SuperBreak Backpack to express your individuality just by walking by.

Though simple, these backpacks are certain to stand out in a crowd of boring black backpacks. There won’t be any need for you to fritter your time away searching through everybody else’s backpack—you’ll know your own immediately!

JanSport bags offer plenty of storage space inside the single, main compartment—much like the traditional backpacks students use for school. It also has a zippered, front utility pouch with an organizer that helps you keep important things handy, like a flashlight, binoculars, or a snack.

JanSport makes their attractive SuperBreak Backpacks with straight-cut, padded shoulder straps and two-thirds of padded back panel for some cushion as your carry a load on you back and shoulders. It’s also given a standard web haul handle.

JanSport SuperBreak Backpacks from JanSport—twelve ounces of 600 Denier Polyester fabric—are made to hold 25.4 liters. They hold 16.7” tall, 13” wide, and 8.5” deep. You can certainly use a backpack like this for a trip to the beach or out on a hike; just so long as you’ll be back in time for dinner.

This season at Everything Summer Camp you can find cool colors and awesome designs like the Fluorescent Black, Fluorescent Pink, Fluorescent Green, Fluorescent Orange, and the attractive Black Fluorescent Street Scene.

That’s all for today, Camp Fans. Till next time!

Hey, Camp Fans!

Today I want to tell you about the one, the only, the founder of TruKid, Jennifer Adams Bunkers. This incredible entrepreneur had a dream and then made it a reality with nothing more than a considerate thought and her own hard work.

When Jennifer, a mother of six, mind you, discovered that two of her kids had gotten into her wrinkle cream and applied it to themselves as a joke, she got it in her head that a cream that’s used to wipe the wrinkles off your face probably isn’t the safest product for children to be messing with.

And that made her realize further that there wasn’t much on the market for children’s products for skin care, hair care, or baby-safe sunscreen. Since everything else that was out there was all filled to the brim with a bunch of chemicals that nobody can pronounce or had an unpleasant odor.

After that, she decided she would concoct skin and hair care products that weren’t only safe for children to use but fun for them too. Her one hundred percent natural, essential oils, shampoos, sunblock, and other products come packaged with educational activities that help teach your kids about taking care of their skin, the hair on their head, and the world they live in.

One might think that Jennifer must be Wonder Woman in her alter ego’s everyday disguise to be such an amazing entrepreneur and a mother of six. But really she’s just prone to handling stressful and chaotic situations. She’s doing something that she loves to do which makes it all worth it to her at the end of the day.

In the coming fall season, Jennifer intends to launch the TruKid Foundation™, an organization for kids, by kids to create a focus on charity work in the Bay Area. This includes product donations, outreach activities, and educational projects.

- John

Hey, Camp Aficionados!

If you haven’t already, you need to check out our new designer tools that you’ll get to use for creating your favorite personalized products here at Everything Summer Camp!   Whether you’re creating your own Lid Skinz, Nameplates, Create-Your-Own-Footlockers, or designing your monogrammed laundry bag, you’ll be having fun.

These new designer tools work faster and give you an abundance of freedom not just sizing, but placement as well. There’s also less restrictions for certain items. For nameplates, your icons are limitless!

We can’t encourage you enough to try getting your kids involved in their own summer camp preparations. That’s why we enjoy making the processes for your personalized items more fun and interactive to design.

Let’s say that you love frogs. Well, now when you’re creating your Lid Skinz for your trunk, you can take our frog icon and dot the “I” in your name with it or place it in the center of an “O”. Or when you’re designing your One-of-a-Kind Personalized Nameplate, you can make a whole border of frogs!

You can go absolutely frog crazy!

Pick a different color for all ten separate surfaces on our awesome personalized trunks, the Create-Your-Own-Footlocker. You can easily make sure that you have the top, bottom, the front lid, back lid, the right and left side of the lid, the front and back base, and the left and right side of the base colored and designed just the way you want it.

Let us know what your initials are and show us which side of your name you’d like to see an icon and we’ll get your laundry bag sewn out soon after! You’ll actually get to see detailed previews of your creations as you’re designing them. I can’t wait for you to finish reading this blog post and start designing your own items!

Have a blast!

- John

Hey, Summer Campers!

It’s time for another celebrity at summer camp blog post where you learn all about your favorite big names. Today I’m going to tell you about Lisa Loeb, an excellent singer/songwriter and actress who started out as a summer camper just like yourselves!

Lisa attended Camp Champions, a fun-filled boys and girls camp just outside Austin Texas where she remembers quite fondly sitting around a campfire or close to the water and singing fun, camp songs such as “Peanut, Peanut Butter and Jelly”. She had so much fun doing it as a kid that she basically turned it into her career!

By the age of twenty-six, Lisa’s musical career was in full swing after she released the song “Stay (I Missed You)” in 1994. Among her five studio CDs are her major label debut, Tails and the album’s Grammy-nominated follow-up Firecracker—both of which are gold-selling albums.

Aside from her musical career, Lisa has worked in film too, as well as voice-over work, and television, but above all else, she really seems to gravitate toward children’s music! You can see in her concerts that she truly enjoys performing songs that she used to sing her days at summer camp.

About five years ago, she released the awesome Camp Lisa under her own record label, Furious Rose Productions. On this album you’ll find twenty-one songs, both camp classics as well as originals performed by Lisa along with—among other guest performers—funnyman (and banjo master), Steve Martin.

Five years before Camp Lisa she released Catch the Moon with Elizabeth Mitchell. And most recently, she has put out her first joint children’s book and album, Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The Disappointing Pancake and Other Zany Songs in 2011.

It’s pretty easy to see that summer camp meant a lot to Lisa Loeb. What will it mean to you? Thanks for reading, Camp Folks!

Hey, Camp Preppers!

I hope you’re getting more and more excited as the summer camp season draws near! In preparation, you may be looking for the right sleeping bag for your camper; and, in doing so, you may be finding it confusing to know just which kind of sleeping bag will be best—what with how many different types of sleeping bags there are.

When it comes down to a sleeping-bag, we’ve got everything you could want…which doesn’t exactly make it easy to decide on the one that’s just right for your camper. Read on and you can use this post as a guide to helping you narrow your sights on the appropriate kids sleeping bags for your kids’ camp stay.

Your first decision will come down to the style of sleeping bag. Here you have two options: you can go with the traditional Rectangle Style Bag or you can go with the Mummy Style.

For a longer camp stay that guarantees some night’s spent under the stars, a mummy style sleeping bag is what you’re looking for. It’s shape will naturally keep it warmer inside and its better equipped to protect your camper against the elements.

If your kid’s camp stay is a week long, however, and isn’t going to involve much actual camping, the traditional rectangular style sleeping bag will do just fine. It’s better for a restless sleeper as well who tosses and turns throughout the night.

Your next decision arrives at temperature ratings. Know the weather forecast for your camper’s camp stay. How cool is it going to get? The temperature ratings let you know how cool of a night it’s intended to handle. If the nights are pretty cold, you’ll want to look for a lower rating.

Next, you’ll want to give some thought toward using synthetic material or real down. Though more expensive, real down is typically your better option. It’s light, highly compressible, and long-lasting. It holds its loft longer than synthetic down and maintains its insulation well over time.

A sleeping bag made with Synthetic Insulation is going to be bigger and it’s going to be heavier. Synthetic Insulation doesn’t absorb water making it a great choice for campers who plans on roughin’ it rain or shine. These bags are also less expensive than sleeping bags made with Real Down.

Lastly, you need to decide if you want a regular size sleeping bag or one that expands from a youth size sleeping bag to and adult. An expandable twelve inches at the end of the bag ensures that your camper won’t be outgrowing this bag any time soon!

That’s all for today, Camp Fans. Hope this helped clarify which type of sleeping bag would be best for your camper! And, as always, thanks for reading!

- John