It is difficult to find camps for the last couple of weeks of summer, but Lola's Laboratory is a great option for the last two weeks of August!

That is really great. My husband made schedule around our kids so we register for camps not out of necessity, so we pick 9-3 camps that focus on single sports and expensive once
I don't spend more than $2000 for 2.

Anonymous wrote:Full day 7-6pm with financial assistance $250 per child for the almost the whole summer

Yay for finding a camp that would work with you. That's great. I hope your children have a fun and happy summer there.

Full day 7-6pm with financial assistance $250 per child for the almost the whole summer

Anonymous wrote:Now that I have learned a bit more about the camp, I am THRILLED to be sending my child to a DC Parks and Rec camp, $50/week plus $20/week for both before care and after care. Yes, that's $70.00/week, and the community center is fine, with 2 playgrounds and a really cute spraypark literally only feed away.

And the regular camp hours are 8:45-5:00, that's $50/week before you ever add on before/aftercare.

Once I learned more about summer camps and my child actually attended for a few summers, I learned not to be thrilled with any park and rec camp and to be really careful about signing up for multiple weeks or the whole summer at these type of camps. The PP is correct - there can be poor supervision, the kids do get bored because the activities become limited, the physical space they have is limited and be very careful about them going on field trips. Supervision sucks.

Keep an eye on things in the first week if your kid attends a DC Rec camp - I wouldn't get too comfortable until you are sure everything is OK, especially with a younger kid. I have a friend who pulled her child from the local looked-ok-but-not-so-well-run DC rec camp with a spray park after her kid got heatstroke. At another you'd-think-it-was-fine rec camp with a cement turtle in the sandbox I watched the kids throw sand in each other's faces and roam far and wide in the park with inadequate adult supervision. A group of kids made it all the way over to the hill behind one of the baseball diamonds (not the close by one inside the playground) and were doing a downhill demolition derby for 20 minutes before anybody noticed they were gone. Then the adult in charge stood a hundred yards away and yelled for them to come back instead of walking over to make sure they stopped. If I had a rough and tumble kid, maybe 9 or 10, who knew the neighborhood I'd be OK with it maybe but it didn't make me feel like my 5 year old DD would be safe there.

Now that I have learned a bit more about the camp, I am THRILLED to be sending my child to a DC Parks and Rec camp, $50/week plus $20/week for both before care and after care. Yes, that's $70.00/week, and the community center is fine, with 2 playgrounds and a really cute spraypark literally only feed away.

And the regular camp hours are 8:45-5:00, that's $50/week before you ever add on before/aftercare.

YMCA camp (National Capitol Location) is a pretty good deal IMHO-about $400 for two weeks of aquatic camp. They've got lots of camp options-and have gotten good reviews from friends' children.

$2500 for teenager trip
$ 1800 for three weeks of sleep away for DC 2
$ 1400 for DC 3

Is that 5700? Way too much but they have to do something

$2200 for 6 weeks. 8-4.

Anonymous wrote:$600 for french camp x 2 weeks
$600 for spanish camp x 4 weeks (two different companies)

Full days 9 - 3

Still planning on swim camp in August. Don't know the cost.
But, I figured I've got it mostly figured out.

DD will need some down time lazy days, not many but some and our family vaycays aren't planned yet.

We'll prob. just do some staycays, which includes a beach week just before school resumes.

Which Spanish camps?

$220/ per week per kid (2 kids) x 11 weeks = $4800. Sigh

Don't care much for summer school/camp.Complete break from school is great for kids.Love "summer at grandma's" if possible.

I think so too. Who signs for camps that have no aftercare?

Its the after care that really gets you - "camp" only goes until 3 PM. $6200 for 7 weeks for 2 kids.