Find the ASB team tomorrow, July 4th, at the booth near the permanent restrooms in Drake Park selling red, white and blue halos, face painting, hair color strips and more! Help us raise $$ to sponsor more girls for camp! Or – learn more about volunteering for summer camp, the school year programs or sign your child up for summer camp!
Our first planning session for the Go For The Gold Olympics-themed summer camp will take place at 9:00 am, June 24th at Hamby House – 62595 Hamby Road (across from Buckingham Elementary). Friday’s group will start planning for activities, decor and the general fun of camp, but will also focus on empowering all leaders to shine like the stars they are. Bring your thinking caps and your own unique experiences to help us get started on this creative process. Your attendance will contribute to the momentum of a fun-filled camp this year!
Some folks have asked what our featured musicals are for Theatrical Spectacular. So – here is the line up…Our opening number will be “Be Our Guest” from Beauty & the Beast presented by the entire camp cast. During the week campers are divided up into 4 “casts” – each group preparing a musical number from one of these 4 productions: Lion King (Hakuna Matata), Sound of Music (My Favorite Things), Rent (Seasons of Love) and D___ Yankees (You Got to Have Heart). Girls can choose to perform as a cast member singing and dancing or assist with the production by preparing costumes, sets, props or other stage management duties. The entire cast of camp will perform the closing number – “Tomorrow” from Annie. Get your Kleenex ready!
Each cast of Big Buddies is in charge of planning and leading one day’s activities. These include ice breaker games, choice of snack foods, devotional lesson (emphasizing values/virtues presented in the songs or musical), group singing, dance/movement to the musical number and crafts. This year the crafts are typically props or sets that will be used for the Thursday evening performance. ASB teens have been working together for the past six weeks to prepare a spectacular camp for all involved!
Camp runs from 1:00 -5:00 on Mon & Tue and 1:00-7:30 on Wed and Thurs. Check in/registration starts at 12:00 noon on Monday Aug 3. Dinner will be served to all campers on both Wed & Thur evenings. Weather permitting, the cast will have a fun campfire Wednesday night after our “dress rehearsal”.
Parents and family members are invited to watch our entertaining performance. Please plan on arriving by 6:30 pm so the show can start promptly.
Remember – you don’t have to be a professional-level singer or dancer to be a part of camp. There is something for everybody so join us and make this summer one truly worth remembering!
Less than 2 weeks and we will be greeting the many girls for summer camp 2015. So far we have almost 60 people registered including girls from 4th grade on through high school and college. Musical numbers include songs from Beauty and the Beast, Oliver, Lion King, Sound of Music, Yankees, Rent and Annie. Our teen and college “cast members” have been working hard all month preparing to bring a wide variety of games, crafts, music, drama and dance to the “stage” called “Camp Spectacular“.
If you have been wondering whether you should send your child to camp – it’s not too late. Email us at afterschoolbuddies@gmail.com to find out if we still have space for your child.
Here are comments from a couple of parents of ASBers who have come to love our camp experience! Hope we get to meet your daughter this summer at camp!
Over the five years my child has gone to After School Buddies Camp, she has had the opportunity to learn, plan, and play with girls of many different ages and backgrounds. It has helped her better understand herself and others. She enjoys it because she renews friendships from past camps and makes new friends.
“As a single father, I am grateful and thankful for the After School Buddies program and summer camp that my daughter has had the privilege to be apart of for the last few years. The encouragement, self-esteem and confidence that has been instilled in her from the adults to the big Buddies is absolutely priceless. Every year my daughter looks forward to the summer camp that is put on for the girls and this year is no exception. I have no doubt the friendships that my daughter has made will be lifelong. I highly recommend this program for any girls regardless of their situation. Char and the staff at ASB are absolutely top notch and I couldn’t be any more pleased.”
