SPECIALIZED SUMMER CAMPS

If your kids found their summer camp to be uninspiring this summer, next year consider some of these alternative specialized summer camps:

1. Hollywood Stunt Camp – California’s Pali Overnight Adventures offers a number of camps for showbiz hopefuls including their Hollywood Stunt Camp. Campers spend either one or two weeks working with real Hollywood stuntmen on topics like taking a high fall, simulating hand-to-hand combat, and sword fighting. The two-week program even culminates with campers taking a 32-foot fall and directing and choreographing their own stunt spectacular. If heights and fights aren’t your thing, Pali also offers a Movie Makeup Academy where campers work with Hollywood makeup artists to replicate favorite movie characters and even turn themselves into gory ghouls.

2. Nudist Camp – Since the early 1990′s, the American Association for Nude Recreation has offered summer Youth Leadership Camps at various resorts around the country in order to let young people ages 11 to 18 enjoy some nude summer camp fun. While the notion of a camp full of naked teenagers may strike non-nudists as a bit strange (or completely appalling), a 2003 New York Times profile detailed how the camps are perfectly legal because the nudity wasn’t of a lewd nature. The camps go to great lengths to desexualize the nudity in an effort to combat the teens’ surging hormones. The result is camps where teens go to enjoy mundane activities like sports and arts and crafts, all while in the buff. The clothes-free policy must make packing for camp much easier.

3. Wizards and Warriors Camp – Finally, there’s a solution for kids who don’t want to leave their role-playing games for a week at camp: a camp that’s one big role-playing game. At Charlton, Massachusetts’ Wizards and Warriors Camp, campers create their own characters and then spend their days fighting together against villains and searching for a treasure. The camp sounds like it integrates educational elements into the fun – a potions-making class provides real-world lessons in chemistry – all while giving children a valuable opportunity to mingle with trolls.

4. Spy Camp – Camp Lohikan in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, offers aspiring James Bonds the chance to learn how to be a spy. Campers learn evasive driving manuevers for an ATV, martial arts, undercover tactics, and code breaking skills. At the end of the term, campers test their spying acumen by participating in a recon and rescue mission.

5. Magic Camp – Wizard’s Workshop bills itself as the best magic camp in Maine. Professional magicians use the day camp to teach kids showmanship, misdirection, and other tricks of the trade. During the camp campers build their own props and use them in a final show at the end of camp.

SPECIALIZED SUMMER CAMPS

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