Hey, Cool Kids! 

Eye protection is just as important as sunscreen is for children's fun in the summer sun! Make sure you send your camper off with the proper protection. Check out our selection of cool sunglasses from Olympic Eyewear, available right here at Everything Summer Camp! Peruse these appealing shades for your summer sights: 

X-Loop Wrap Around Men's Sunglasses
These Sunglasses feature a trendy silver clear frame. Oval-shaped lenses give you UV ray protection. Enjoy the comfortably snug fit with molded nose pads. Made of high-quality plastic and are designed for action and adventure! 

Romance Round Kids' Sunglasses
Protection from harmful sunrays has never looked cooler! Constructed of a plastic frame and metal arms, these Sunglasses are designed to sit comfortably on your face. 

Classic Round Unisex Sunglasses
With a cool frame already, the colored lenses of the sunglasses create a cool gradient effect. Without sacrificing its simplicity, these plastic frames are bold and trendy. 

Women's Butterfly Rhinestone Sunglasses
The oversized frames of these sunglasses are an elegant means of fashion and eye protection. Constructed of a delicate metal and plastic frame that create a sophisticated look, these Sunglasses are an attractive accessory.

Giselle Round Women's Sunglasses
Beaming a cool, retro style, these Sunglasses are sure to bring some sophistication to your style. Turn heads with these quirky shades! They're made of plastic and offer high-level protection from harmful sunrays while making you look like a million bucks! 

Romance Rhinestone Kids' Sunglasses
Marked with jewels above the lens on the frame, these are a fashionable hit. And more than just a stylish decoration, these Kid's Sunglasses provide a comfortable means of eye protection from harmful UV rays from that glorious, golden sun! 

Stay comfy all day long and protect yourself against UV rays with any one of these fantastic pairs of protective sunglasses. Check out all our Olympic Eyewear sunglasses by clicking right here. Have a cool summer and, as always, thanks for reading, Camp Fans! 

- John

Hey, Fans of Summer! 

At summer camp, it's wise to have some kind of portable fan nearby to help you stay cool when the days get hot! We’re proud to offer fans from one of the industry's top brand names: TREVA. Designed for performance and innovation, TREVA products are perfect for those summer scorchers at camp. Trust us, when the heat strikes, you'll want your trusty TREVA fan around to bring you much-needed cooling relief. 

TREVA 5" Clip Fan
The 5” Clip Fan from TREVA has your back on those stagnant summer scorchers. With a secure clipping base for your convenience, the Clip Fan can be used anywhere you go! It offers two speeds and it even rotates and tilts for optimal airflow directed exactly where you need it. 

TREVA 10" Camping Fan with AC Adapter
Get your cool relief from the TREVA 10” Camping Fan with an AC Adapter. This is a powerful fan with two speeds that can travel with you just about anywhere. It has a built-in handle for carrying convenience and it’s completely adjustable so you can direct the airflow where you want it to go! 

TREVA 10" Battery Powered Camping Fan with Lights
LED lights bring extra fun to this Fan. Set this powerful, two-speed Fan out on a picnic table to cool you and your friends during an outdoor card game or just put it on the ground while you lie on the grass. Its base is made to pivot independently to give itself stability on uneven ground! 

TREVA 3.5" Rechargeable Puck Fan
Charging is easy as can be with the included micro USB charging cable. TREVA designed this fan to operate at three speeds so you can choose between a light breeze to a good gust! A full charge will deliver a cooling 6 hours of high speed, 9.5 hours of medium speed, and 18 hours of low speed. 

Shop right here at Everything Summer Camp to find refreshing TREVA fans for your escape when the summer heat gets to be too much! As always, stay cool and thanks for reading! 

- John

Hey, Camp Folks!

With the camp season kicked into full gear, perhaps you’ll come across the summer camp that you’ll be heading to as we continue to add to our Summer Camp Spotlight category of Blog posts. Today, we’re fixing our camp spotlight to the northern tip of the East Coast in Maine. Today we’re going to check out Netop Summer Camp for boys. 

Set on 100 acres of mountainous Maine terrain, the spectacular beauty of Netop abounds with lakes, rivers, pines, trails, and plenty of facilities for jam-packed summer days of fun! Camp Netop started welcoming boys to their summer experience in 1955, but the camp closed down about 30 years later, just as Everything Summer Camp was seeing its beginning. 

After a nearly-twenty-year-hiatus, Netop was resurrected under the name Netop Summer Camp in 2006. Netop is back in business, ready to show their campers an absolute blast during their camp stay. Netop campers can pick from great activities like Archery, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Chess, Conditioning, Crafts, Drama & Film, Fishing, Guitar & Rock Band, Lacrosse, Origami, Sailing, Snorkeling, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball, Woodsman, Wood Shop, and plenty more. 

Netop accommodates their campers with the unforgettable tent experience. The tent walls roll up or down to give campers the best of both worlds: outdoor shelter as well as breezy openness. The morning starts with breakfast followed by “tent clean-up” which has tent mates working together to tidy things up. The cleanest tent of the week wins a Netop Sundae! Each tent is home base for either 4 or 5 campers as well as 1 or 2 counselors. 

If you’re not already going to Netop, check out this summer camp for the next summer season. You’re sure to love your time there. Have a look around at this East Coast camp. As always, thanks for reading and happy camping! 

- John

Hey, Camp Folks 

There certainly is a lot of prep work that goes into summer camp. And all your hard work culminates on this one day—Opening Day of summer camp! Making it to this day is a big win, but you’re not out of the water just yet! In fact, there can be quite a list of tasks to check off. Here are six valuable tips to stay organized and successfully navigate Opening Day: 

1. Make a Travel Plan
The first tip is to add two hours to your travel time so you can make the trip in relaxed, leisurely fashion. With the extra time on your hands, you don’t have to worry about a snag or two. Feel free to make a stop for an extra pillow or toothbrush or anything else you may have forgotten. You could even stop for lunch and enjoy some time together before you get to camp. 

2. Complete Registration
Keep to the time your camp has set for registration; you don’t want to be late and arriving extra early can really interfere with last-minute prep the camp has going on. The registration process includes meeting the directors, settling your camper’s account, getting your cabin/group assigned, talking to medical staff if you need, moving your child’s gear into the cabin, and meeting the staff. 

3. Meet Your Child’s Leader
Sometimes your kid will have more than one cabin leader—get to know at least one of them. Ask them questions about their camping experience, where they are in school, how their summer’s going, and where they’re from. Make sure to tell them a bit about your camper and fill them in on any necessary info like any physical, behavioral, or emotional concerns. You may want to mention anything going on in your child’s life—a grandparent passing, a new pet, change in school, etc. 

4. Address Medical, Behavioral, and Emotional Concerns
If your kid suffers from conditions (like asthma, allergies, injuries, ADHD, sleepwalking, bedwetting, etc.), you and the camp director and the medical staff can decide how the whole camp can best meet your child’s needs. At the very least, the medical staff needs to know about any meds your camper’s on or recently stopped taking. Send prescription meds in their original bottles with dosage instructions. Don’t be afraid to mention private affairs to your camp staff; they handle such matters discreetly. 

5. Allocate Spending Money
Since most camps don’t allow campers to keep cash on them, your camp may ask you to leave money set aside for things like buying items at the camp store, arts & crafts projects, or out-of-camp trips. You’ll get back whatever is leftover at the end of the session. After registration, you can decide as a family how to spend the money. Camp apparel and other paraphernalia make great purchases on Opening Day to help build camp spirit! 

6. Saying Good-Bye
All kids are different, but a lot of campers want their parents to leave as soon as they have moved into their cabin. Other children want their parents to stick around a bit longer. It’s a good plan to decide together what a good amount of time is to hang out before leaving. It’s also wise to discuss beforehand exactly HOW you’ll say goodbye (i.e. a short walk, a hug and a kiss, just a hug, a high-five…) what’s your camper most comfortable with?  

Once you’ve actually said “goodbye” make a decisive departure (lingering or returning unexpectedly after a short time will cause anxiety about when you’re actually leaving). Of course, if your child requests you can stay a little longer, you can. Give them a little more time and then say something like, “We could say goodbye now or in 10 minutes, which sounds better to you?” 

Remember, your sending your kid to camp to gain some independence. It may or may not start right away. Maybe your kid will have no trouble with goodbyes, don’t be upset or surprised if they start making friends right away and express that you don’t need to stick around long. That’s a good sign! Make Opening Day a success and enjoy knowing your child is about to have a fantastic time! 

As always, thanks for reading! 

- John

Hey, Camp Folks! 

We all get great enjoyment out of a hard day’s work here at Everything Summer Camp but, just like all you, we want to have our fun in the sun as well. I’ve been asking people all around the workplace to see what kind of summer camp activities people would be most interested in returning to or trying out for the first time! I recently stopped by the office of our Operations Manager, Brian, to see what his pick would be for favorite camp activity! 

Without the need to deliberate on the question, Brian responded with Archery. This was the camp activity he was most excited for when he was a child headed to summer camp. But back then, he almost didn’t get the chance. He had been denied for being too young. 

The disappointment crushed him! Archery became that much more tantalizing now that it had made the move to forbidden fruit. To make matters worse, the alternative activity the camp had lined up for him was wallet-making. “I really didn’t want to make a wallet,” he told me. 

He had to do something about his situation and he had to act fast. In a frenzy, young Brian threw up his arms and made just as much of a temper tantrum as he had to before the counselors reassessed their stance on his eligibility for Archery. 

“I had fun,” Brian told me. It sounds like he wasn’t too bad a shot either, but—truth be told—I’m just glad he didn’t wound anybody! 

Will you be participating in Archery this summer like Brian wants to? If it’s something your heart is set on, don’t let anyone deny you the way Brian didn’t. Happy shooting. And, as always, thanks for reading, Camp Fans! Till next time. 

- John