Memories For Sale

Imagine mid-winter and you open your drawer to get dressed... in a second you are swept up in memories of the perfect summer day at Holiday Hill Day Camp

 in Mansfield, Connecticut.   http://www.holidayrecreation.com/

The Camp Store has lots of memory involing items ready for you. Long after today's popsicle is forgotten, the tie-dye camp shirt, the staff shirt, the singing bird doll and friendship bracelets will help you remember those summer days.

                                                                        
Did you master a new swimming level, walk among the tree tops on the ropes course, hit a bull's eye in archery? Those are great moments from camp. That feeling of being on top of the world will be with you whenever you think of camp and all you accomplished there.

What we really have after the all important ice cream and popsicles is lasting memories!

                                                                     
             Did you make a new best friend this summer?  Matching shirts will help you remember them until you can meet up again at camp.

                Keep hydrated this August with the water bottles available in the camp store.

                                         What color makes your memory come to life?

                                                                          Stop by soon!
                                                     http://www.holidayrecreation.com/

Robin Hood the Next Generation

                                                                  ARCHERY

Robin Hood and his Merry  Men have nothing on the campers from Holiday Hill Day Camp in Mansfield Ct. the skills needed to join the merry band can be acquired while attending our day camp. Let our staff teach your children the timeless skill of  Archery!

                                                                                     
With precise safety skills built into the lesson archers learn step by step how to  load- draw- release and wait for the all bows down and all clear to retrieve the arrows.

                

                                Guidance from an instructor as a camper prepares

                                      
                    Closing in on the balloon, finding that calm that allows for good
                                                         aim a great skill                                            

                Take aim at a great summer with a session at Holiday Hill Day Camp Mansfield, CT.            www.holidayrecreation.com      

                                                            

The Olympics

The Olympics is a tribute to athletes, to sport and to fair play and honor.  There is the chance that the camper you swim with this summer could become an Olympian. Maybe it is the kid who runs so fast they always are first when someone yells Popsicles. Well you have to have some incentive now don't you!  Could a future Olympian be hanging out in the train after lunch or is that possible world class athlete biding time at camp  while they wait for the return of all that snow?

There is so much info on the Olympics that its hard to look at just a bit. Wikipedia covers it pretty well with a few photos and some text divided by subsections. You can read about all or just a little part of the incredible history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games

         What is your favorite Summer Olympic Sport? It often has to do with an athlete whose personal story to attain the skills needed for Olympic competition have made them an instant celebrity.  There are all those more obscure Olympic sports too, the TV stations just don't give them prime time coverage to allow a following to develop.  Like archery,  and the  equestrian  sports( the only sport where men and women compete on equal terms)

    In 2012 the Summer Games will be in London all the pageantry and drama will come at us through every device the techies can muster and we will fill a couple weeks with Olympic Moments.

                                                                                   

You don't have to wait though, come to Holiday Hill Day Camp in beautiful Mansfield, CT for a summer full of Olympic Sport! http://www.holidayrecreation.com/

Take Aim and Fire At A Summer of Fun

                                                                               
Robin Hood, The Dark Arrow, Cupid, legends are built around those with a skill for bow and arrow. The keen eye and  steady hand required for a bulls eye take practice and  then more practice. That is something you can get this summer at Holiday Hill Day Camp. http://www.holidayrecreation.com/  The classic bow and arrow is a fun sport and  practicing and making that first bulls eye a moment to savor for years to come.

                                                                                     The Long Bow has been around for centuries. The history of the world is filled with wars fought by bow and conquests  for the steady hand. Stop to think just where did all those bows and arrows come from. Certainly not a trip to a local store! Here is a project for you to  consider.

                                                                                       
Come out to camp this summer and  master the skills required in archery. You too could become a legend with the bow and arrow!

Archery Shots - Candle Shot- Camera Shots & Memories

Is Archery one of your favorite activities at camp.  Thanks to slow motion camera we can see that the arrow did snuff out the candle in today's video. There is something special about the feeling you get when your arrow pierces the target. There is a little Robin Hood in each of us! Here is a link to learn more about the great Archer Robin Hood.

http://www.http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood

Who might the next Holiday Hill Robin be? Get your registration in so you can come and practice at camp!
http://www.holidayrecreation.com/ 

Check This website for Archery Safety Rules if you plan to brush up on your skills before camp

www.archeryweb.com/archery/rules.htm

Want to find out about archery in Connecticut try:

www.caa-archery.org/

If you want to read up on the rules, techniques, competitions and equipment Amazon.com offers these two among their archery titles in stock:

Teaching Archery To Kids  by: Jim "Fletch" Fanjoy

$19.95 paperback

Young Beginner's Guide to Shooting and Archery

By: W.H. "Chip" Gross

$11.99

Camp Director in Winter Mode

Frosty cold days and quiet mark camp in the winter months.  The snow shovel is the the most frequently used piece of equipment. Stacks of catalogs come in and camp registration materials are going out. The baseball diamond lies under a deep white blanket. The archery field, ropes course and  grounds are haunted by remembered laughter and the call of birds. We wait for the return of campers and outings groups to bring back all the smiles. 

So what should a camp director do? Play guitar, sing a few of the old favorites. Be sure to ask at camp  this season to hear "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgrerald" a song  originally put out by Gordon Lightfoot. Listen to the video clip on the blog here. Dudley played at the Bread-Box  to benefit the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic. The Bread-Box Showcase mic raises funds for the soup kitchen which is feeding our hungry neighbors. It is held in the sanctuary of St. Paul's at 22 Valley St. in Willimantic, Ct.

 want to learn more about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald  on Nov. 10,1975 check these sites:
     www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald-36/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald  

Be sure to stop by and visit the Bread-Box in person and  find them on Face Book at www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bread-Box/171645649561
Don't go to Face Book without stopping by and  visiting the camp page at www.facebook.com/HillCamp
Need info on camp, go to our website at: http://www.holidayrecreation.com/  or call 860-423-1375

Now do us a big favor please and remind your friends from Holiday Hill Day Camp to enter the contest (see previous blog post )for camp memories and  subscribe to this blog so you can keep up with all the news. Camp may be quiet without YOU, but  there is a lot happening to get ready for your return.