Ideas for care package for kids camp

[bugbugmom]

My DD11 will be going to camp (overnite) for 1 week. I'm looking for ideas to pack in her luggage for her to open one package a day. I wanted to do this instead of sending a care package. I already have a few ideas such as: disposable camera, water balloons. Any other ideas? TIA

 

[ToyStory#1fan'sMom]

Gosh, summer camp brings back so many wonderful memories!

Some things we enjoyed,
*A journal (to open the first night to keep memories in)
*An address book (for the last day to get all those email addresses to keep in touch)
*Individual flavored drink add ins
*Hard candy
*Cute new pair of socks
*Fingernail polish in a funky color
*Water gun

Just a few ideas. We also had a shaving cream fight on one of the last nights, so parents always sent several cans of shaving cream. Hope she has a ball!

Kate

 

[RangerPooh]

-Prestamped postcards or prestamped/preaddressed envelopes
-Treats (if your camp allows food/snacks to be sent)
-Cash for the camp store if you don't have an account set up
-Disposable camera
-A few photos from home (replaceable ones of course)
-a calling card if able to call home
-if sending candy or nail polish or small goodies (hairbands, etc) ask how many girls are in each cabin so that she can share with her new friends. This might be nice for those who don't receive care packages.



Look on your camps website as they might have a suggested list of items to be sent for care packages.

I would also ask your camp about their policy on water ballooons or shaving cream. Some might have restrictions on things like waterballons as the popped pieces might not get picked up. I know that when I was a camp counselor it was a pain in the rear to pick up the pieces. A small water gun is a better alternative.

 

[bugbugmom]

bumping for more ideas!

 

[powellrj]

I think I would check with the camp and see if this is something they allow. I know the camps my kids have attended and will be attending this year only allow cards and letters. I have never heard of a care package for a week of overnight night camp. My DS is at camp now and DD leaves next week and other than a few cards tucked away and a few emails I sent, thats all that they allow.

 

[barkley]

dd's camp is restrictive on what can be sent too -nothing that is not sold in the camp store food wise-and they sell no candy or sweets, no water guns (any gun looking item is a no-no) and several other restrictions. when dd went (and goes this year) i dropped off several small packages at the office with the date i wanted each delivered- a book i knew she would enjoy (day one), a pad of drawing paper and a colored pen, a small stuffed animal...on the day before the last day i had a package with an autograph animal delivered (ya know, white cloth and a pen-the kids sign it, some put phone numbers and email addresses on it).

our camp also lets us send a daily email message to the kids-they can't respond, but every afternoon they go to a bulletin board to see if they have a folded peice of paper with their name on it. i sent one each day to let dd know we were thinking about her, and keep her up to date on the goings on at home ("no, your little brother has not taken control of your bedroom" ).

hope your dd has a blast-mine went for 1 week the first year, this year she'll be gone for 2!

 

[TEXASPRINCESSES]

how about a fun teen magazine or search word book or the like
a card game
a new cd or cassette
colored chalk
new cap or visor or sunglasses
new tee or pj's
bracelets or cool mini flashlight
new hair accessories

I'll keep thinking..my daughter is just 6 so I'm not there yet..But I know what I'd like to rec

 

[taximomfor4]

I just dropped dd12 off at camp today. We are allowed to send cards/letters, and she can call us when she is near the phone.

She took a camera with her in her bags, along with a book to read. She is soooo excited about going to this camp again. Also, we are not really gift people, we are more experience people so maybe we are NOT the norm. I'd never think to send a gift for each day (never heard of that before).

I hope all the Dis's campers have wonderful experiences this summer!!

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

i'm a camp counselor right now and my kids are middle-high school aged. some of the best packages from parents have included...

cheap glow sticks/bracelets...were fun at night, and she shared them with her roommates

homemade baked goods (brownies)

fun cereals...are a good fun snack and break from camp food, but not as bad as candy for the most part

disposable cameras

little journals/notebooks and pens and pencils...kids always seem to want these to get info from eachother at the end of camp, and we can never find them

maybe a few extra dollars if they are able to purchase things?

hope some of those ideas help!

 

[karliebug]

I just made one for my DD. I put in gimp(that plastic ribbon that they make bracelets with) , a deck of cards, a couple of travel games of tic tac toe and checkers, a plain white cap and a sharpie marker for her friends to autograph it (you could also do a shirt or a pillowcase), a sketch pad and markers, some lip gloss. We weren't allowed to send any candy or food items.

 

[karliebug]

oh, and I forgot to mention that I got almost everything at the dollar store so it was cheap!