Making Summer Camp More Fun with a Journal or Diary

A few summers ago, when my daughter was going to an overnight camp for the first time, I was a nervous wreck.  After all, it didn’t seem that long ago that she was homesick at sleepovers, and now she wanted to spend the entire summer away from home at a summer camp?

Even though she seemed to be excited about it, I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if she got scared or lonely or the other girls were mean to her?  Would she want me to come and pick her up in New Hampshire?   That’s when a good friend suggested I buy her an interactive camp journal.  The camp journal she bought her daughter was what helped her get through those first weeks at overnight camp.

Keeping a camp diary seemed like a great idea to me, but when I mentioned it to my daughter she wasn’t thrilled; that is, until she saw what arrived in the mail a few days later. “Camp Journal: An Activity Book, Record Keeper & Photo Album All wrapped in One” is the book that I bought her.  Well, let me tell you, this changed everything!

Every time I would speak with my daughter that summer, she and her cabin buddies were playing one of the games in the book.  It was loaded with ice-breakers, silly songs and fun activities that kept her summer camp cabin busy all summer.  When she brought home her treasured camp diary, it was filled with autographs, pictures, memories and a record of her favorite activities.

My daughter is so excited about summer camp now that she invites a different friend to come with her every summer, but before summer camp starts she always presents her friend with a brand new camp journal.  Memories from overnight camp really can last a lifetime; and there is no better way to experience it than with an activity-packed summer camp diary or journal.