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Are you tired of watching your kids spend day after day indoors staring at screens? Mowglis summer camp for boys has ideas to break your kids out of their technology-zombie stupor. Safeguard your children’s mental and physical health. Shake things up with these things for kids to do outside when it’s cold – no snow required!

Build a Fort

Winter and early spring, when tree branches cover the ground, offer the perfect environment for fort building. Make a tent, create an A-frame shelter, or construct a lean-to, combining branches with nearby bushes, chairs, or other supporting structures. Build a single, giant fort – or a community. Top your handmade forts with picnic and beach blankets or old linens for an authentic feel.

Go Box Sledding

Believe it or not, you don’t need snow to slide down a hill. Grab a few boxes from your online shopping adventures. Line hills with pine straw to create a slick surface for sliding or make a luge-style track using flattened boxes. Then, slide downhill in your decorated “boxcar.”

Have a Scavenger Hunt

Grab some paper lunch bags and create a winter scavenger hunt list. Send your kids out to search for acorns, berries, leaves, evergreen twigs, pinecones, and bugs (if you’re brave). Giving winter game winners an extra treat after dinner offers a delicious incentive.

Eat Outside

Grab a waterproof mat or beach blanket and take a sandwich, thermos of soup, or hot chocolate outdoors. Enjoy food with family and friends while identifying birds, bugs, and budding plants nearby.

Feed the Birds

Make your own cookie-cutter birdfeeders the day before, or create food on the fly using pinecones, peanut butter, and birdseed. Grab a bird watcher’s handbook and a journal and see what visitors stop by for a snack.

Go for a Hike

Winter and early spring is an excellent time to go for a hike and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature before hordes of bugs (and hikers) come out of the woodwork.

Visit a Local Playground

People tend to forget about area playgrounds in cold weather, but with the proper clothing, they’re a great place for younger children to burn off energy in the winter months. Layers are key to comfort, allowing you to stay warm in breezy weather or cool off when body temperatures rise during climbing and sliding adventures.

Explore Area Beaches

Like the playground, parents often overlook beaches as a cold weather destination. Yet the empty shores offer the perfect place to bundle up and fly a kite, climb rocks or dunes, hunt for shells, and explore wildlife without battling crowds.

Make a Backyard Campfire

Make hot chocolate or grab all the ingredients for s’mores, heading outside to spend a night around the campfire with your family. Mowglis sleepaway camp regulars know this is the perfect time for sharing treasured stories, like funny things that happened at school, times you got in trouble, and other entertaining memories from the past.

Stay Active and Healthy Leading Up to Sleepaway Camp Season

Don’t let the cold keep your child indoors. There are plenty of things for kids to do outside when it’s cold – no snow required – while you’re looking forward to boys’ summer camp. Don’t miss out on warm weather fun at Camp Mowglis. Reserve your spot for the upcoming overnight summer camp season today.

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The Mow-Trow Gear Exchange: Smart & Sustainable Gear Sharing:

If your son has outgrown Mowglis uniform items (aka Mow-Trow) that are still in good shape, please add them to this spreadsheet. If you’re looking for Mow-Trow or other gear (hiking boots, backpacks, etc.), you can check out this spreadsheet, and if you find what you’re looking for, contact the parent who posted it up and either arrange for shipping (or to pick it up if you live in the same area).

 

The best way to pay for shipping will be for the family with the items to box them up and bring them to a UPS Store and have the parent receiving the items call the store with their credit card number. That is how we send lost and found items at the end of the summer, and it works quite well. Please note when items have been claimed once they have been. Any unclaimed items can be brought to camp on arrival day or shipped to camp.

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Protect Your Investment: Program Protector Tuition Insurance:

Program Protector, tuition insurance, is now available for purchase during the online registration process.

 

If purchased, may protect up to the full cost of your son’s session and include various other benefits should the need arise.

 

To buy this coverage, please go HERE.

 

Determine if Program Protection Tuition Insurance is right for you by going HERE.

Please be in touch if you have any questions about this program. 

 

PLEASE submit all camper forms by May 15th. There aren’t too many forms; all are important, and most can be completed right online.

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Keeping Campers Safe: Our Tick Management Approach:

How do you manage the threat of ticks?

While we have fewer ticks in NH than in more southern New England states, we still take ticks extremely seriously.

 

Here are some big-picture ways we protect our campers from ticks:

 

  • Our defense starts with staff education – all campers and counselors are taught what, where, and when to look for, and we have the campers do tick checks at least daily and every time they’ve been out in the bushes.
  • If a tick is found embedded on a camper while at camp, he will go to the nurse for removal and bite-site mapping, and then the tick is saved, and the camper will be monitored daily for any signs of infection.
  • If there is a parental desire or signs of infection, the tick is sent to a lab for testing.
  • We have bottles of bug spray throughout camp and on all trips.
  • We cut back brush to minimize the chance of ticks hopping onto folks as they walk around camp.

Mowglis Boys Summer Campers are Family

Our families know that Mowglis overnight summer camp for boys aged 7-15 is an extraordinary place. This is due in no small part to the wonderful families who have chosen our outdoor leadership camp for their sons. In joining the Mowglis family, you help us pass the torch, carrying on the tradition of summer camp to future generations and other families across the country.

 

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for becoming part of the Camp Mowglis family. Please help us spread the joy of camping. If you know of someone you’d like to invite to join our camping family, please complete our camp referral form so we can reach out.

 

Thank you – and see you soon!

Nick Robbins, Director

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