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Summer Day Camps!

Stroud Kids is a structured recreational day camp program for youth ages 6-14. The program is offered at several locations and is open to all who live and work in the Stroud Region Area.

Stroud Kids Before & After

Meeting the needs of those who require a structured caring environment earlier and/or later than the regular hours of the Stroud Kids Summer Day Camp, we are happy to offer the Stroud Kids Before & After extension programs at Dansbury Park.

Enrichment Day Camps!

New for the first time this year, Stroud Region Recreation is proud to offer a variety of Enrichment Day Camps! Now your children may explore and develop their special interests in week-long adventures of fun, hands-on, educational activities designed to introduce basic concepts, build skills, and encourage life-long learning.

And many other recreation programs for all ages! See our programs page

Stroud Kids

Dates: Monday-Friday June 23 – August 15, except July 4 (8 weeks)

Times: 8:45 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $440; includes a Stroud Kids T-shirt and Digikids ID (A bargain at less than $2/hour!)

Locations:

Dansbury Park, Day Street, East Stroudsburg (Ages 6-14)

Morey Elementary School, Main Street, Stroudsburg (Ages 6-9)

Stroudsburg High School, Main Street, Stroudsburg (Ages 10-14)

The ever-popular Stroud Kids Summer Day Camp offers a fun, safe, reliable, varied, and affordable daily outdoor and indoor program that kids love! Weekly themes add action to adventures as age-appropriate activities engage children in active and passive games, arts and crafts, outdoor explorations, swimming, cooperative challenges, and even some Extraordinary Events!

All this and more: the constant fun is also sprinkled with enjoyable educational opportunities! Weekly Bookmobile visits from the Eastern Monroe Public Library encourage summertime recreational reading; trained police dogs from the Stroud Area Regional Police Department’s K-9 Unit will demonstrate their special talents; and other Surprise Guests will drop in from time to time to share their own interesting stuff! In uniquely engaging games, social interactions, and special events, the total Stroud Kids experience creates the kind of happy memories that last a lifetime!

Stroud Kids Staff members are trained Counselors who possess valid Criminal History Background and Child Abuse Clearances and are certified in American Red Cross First Aid and CPR/AED. An uplifting, positive, and fun summertime with your kids in Stroud Kids is their goal.

Things to bring to camp: lunch, snacks, plenty of water, swim wear, towel, sneakers, and a good attitude. Please leave other personal items at home.

Stroud Kids Before & After

Stroud Kids Before

Dates: Monday-Friday June 23 – August 15, except July 4 (8 weeks)

Times: 7:15 – 8:45 am

Fee: $120

Location: Dansbury Park

This is the perfect match for Stroud Kids parents who need extra time in the mornings to get to work. Campers may be dropped off as early as 7:15 to enjoy morning quiet time with indoor games, arts and crafts, and other supervised activities. Campers will be signed in with their Stroud Kids Counselors at 8:45. Please have your child eat breakfast before camp, or send a snack.

Stroud Kids After

Dates: Monday-Friday June 23 – August 15, except July 4 (8 weeks)

Times: 3:00 – 6:00 pm

Fee: $240

Location: Dansbury Park

This extension program is created for parents and other caregivers who have long commutes or other late-afternoon commitments and need a safe and reliable program for their children. Campers participate in games of their own choice, swim time, and other fulfilling pastimes. Please send an extra snack for this time.

Stroud Kids Tennis

Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 24 – July 31 (6 weeks)

Times: 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Fee: $75

Location: Dansbury Park

Tennis, anyone? Our afternoon tennis program provides athletic excitement that includes 45 minutes of skill lessons and 45 minutes of team play. Beginners play a slightly modified version that makes serving and scoring easier to increase the fun while learning the skills. Lessons are divided according to age and playing ability. Let’s serve up some fun!

Stroud Kids Basketball

Dates: Mondays and Wednesdays, June 23 – July 30 (6 weeks)

Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Fee: $75

Location: Dansbury Park

Get the rebound! Our afternoon basketball program provides a courtful of action that includes 45 minutes of skill lessons on dribbling, ball handling, shooting, passing, catching, running, and agility, followed by 45 minutes of team play. Exercises become more difficult as the class progresses and players show improvement. Let’s shoot some hoops!

Enrichment Day Camps!

Enrichment Day Camps are directed by experienced Counselors qualified in each subject and most are offered twice each during the last two weeks of August. (Aug. 18-22 and 25-29) from 9 am – 3 pm. Please note the particular location for each. Choose your favorites and sign up for one or both weeks; enrollments are limited to just 16 per session—register early!

Try-Athletics Sports Sampler Enrichment Camp Ages 6-9, 10-12

Dates: August 18-22 Ages 6-9

August 25-29 Ages 10-12

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $90

Location: Dansbury Park

Do you have an athlete in the family or one in the making? Is your child trying to figure out what sport may be his or her best fit? With the help of counselors and coaches, the Try-Athletics Sports Sampler Enrichment Camp offers both training and playtime on a different sport each day. Try-Athletes learn and practice the fundamental skills, developmental drills, and play the games and contests. Sports include basketball, soccer, baseball/softball, tennis, and volleyball. A new take on the traditional version of the game brings a fresh and exciting twist to each day’s athletics; each participant will receive a Try-Athlete Certificate of Enrichment Training.

Expeditions! Enrichment Camp Ages 10-12 and 13-16

Dates: August 18-22 Ages 10-12

August 25-29 Ages 13-16

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $90

Location: varies; meet at Dansbury Park first day

It’s an adventurous week of hands-on explorations and outdoor challenges on the wooded trailways and open spaces places of our resource-rich regional parks!

Rally your Expedition Team and develop the teamwork you’ll need to meet the exciting challenges and missions of the week as you tackle your first sticky-wicket on Day One: crossing The Great Peanut Butter Pit of Despair! Learn and develop basic outdoor skills of first aid, map and compass, and responsible Leave No Trace ethics in preparing for our week of roving adventures.

Our destinations take us to Yetter Park for a rousing round of Disc Golf (Frisbees tossed through the woods to basket targets); Brodhead Creek Park for “treasure” hunting with hand-held GPS units in the new sport of geocaching; Zacharias Pond for “brooksnooping” and fish seining with a 20-foot net; and Dansbury Park for new games that require not only the traditional skills of speed, strength, coordination, and reflexes, but also brainpower and strategy. Our week climaxes with a day hike on the world-famous Appalachian Trail in nearby Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Parents are responsible for transportation to and from each day’s location. Day One meets at Dansbury Park; where you’ll be briefed on the coordinates (written directions) for the rest of the week’s adventures. Expeditions! is held rain or shine; members should dress for weather conditions.

Nature & Wildlife Enrichment Day Camps Ages 4-6, 6-9

Dates: August 18-22; August 25-29

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $90

Location: Brodhead Creek Park; meet at Pond Pavilion

Nature & Wildlife Enrichment Camp is jam-packed with hands-on outdoor adventures as children explore woods, fields, ponds and streams and learn about the wildlife who live in them. Each week offers not one, but two environmentally-themed adventures of educational fun for ages 4-6 and 6-9. Note the following descriptions:

Roving Rangers Nature Safari (morning adventure) Ages 4-6

This summer the Roving Rangers are on Safari in search of a home for Tiki. This woodland elf sees how Friend Squirrel can climb and build a leafy nest in a tree, while Friend Chipmunk burrows cozy tunnels under the ground. Friend Fish makes pebbly nests in its watery world, while Friend Robin builds sturdy nests of mud and grass to raise her young. Nearby, Friend Butterfly flutters from a homespun sleeping bag attached to a leaf. What kind of home is the right kind for Tiki? Each day, the Roving Rangers will explore new worlds and learn about how different creatures are adapted to different kinds of homes. For their kind assistance in finding Tiki a home, each Roving Ranger will receive an official Nature Safari Certificate of Appreciation.

Jurassic in the Park (afternoon adventure) Ages 4-6

Some were the biggest animals to ever walk the earth. Many sported large horns, spikes and body armor. But some were small, and some resembled birds more than reptiles. Some even boasted two brains! But not all the bizarre and fantastic creatures of the Jurassic period were dinosaurs. The allosaurus, apatosaurus, trachodon were all “terrible lizards.” But the pterandon, plesiosaurus, and dimetron were not. What’s the difference? Explore the mystery of prehistory as we conduct our own archeological dig and fossil hunt. Discover how dinosaurs lived, and perhaps why they died; and some of their modern descendents who still populate the earth. Come to “Jurassic in the Park.”

Junior Naturalists Outdoor Society (morning adventure) Ages 6-9

At the Junior Naturalists Outdoor Society headquarters in Faraway Woods, an urgent message has been received. There have been reported sightings of birds walking down trees headfirst and creatures swimming backwards. Another report tells of flying frogs, birds swimming underwater, and insects leaping over 20 times their own body length! What is happening? The JNOS must stalk, trail, observe, and capture specimens from the Special Order of the Locomotion of Animalia (those critters who soar, fly, glide, hop, ooze, slide, walk, and otherwise get around). Junior Naturalists will learn how to make and use the tools of the trade used by professional naturalists. They will make dragonfly wings to learn about flight, build a terrarium to learn about creatures of the soil, and how to safely and gently trap and release animals. Junior Naturalists receive a Certificate of Outdoor Investigations.

Paleo-World (afternoon adventure) Ages 6-9

Return to Jurassic in the Park! In this episode, the adventures of our budding paleontologists begin with the discovery of mystery fossils in the Tooth, Claw, and Bone Mystery Hunt. We learn how to interpret past events by examining the rocks, minerals, and soils of today, and identify and classify real fossils. This is a week of hands-on science, in which we hunt for ecofacts of plant and animal remains, artifacts made by humans, and features in the landscape that reveal ancient activities. We’ll conduct our own paleontological dig, and learn how to record, preserve, and interpret the evidence found.

Show Biz! Musical Theater Enrichment Camp Ages 10-15

Dates: August 18-22

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $100 (includes Shawnee Playhouse performance of Peter Pan on August 22)

Location: Dansbury Park

There’s no business like show business! Five exhilarating days of lively song-and-dance musical theater sets the stage for our aspiring amateur actors. In the mornings, the Players hone their technical skills in drama, voice, and choreography; the afternoons are devoted to building their performance skills in producing songs, dances, and scenes from popular Broadway shows—all for a World Premiere Production for family and friends on the last day. The curtain-raising gig includes a visit to nearby Shawnee Playhouse for its vaunted performance of Peter Pan. On with the show!

Arts & Aquatics Enrichment Camp Ages 6-12

Dates: August 18-22

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $90

Locations: Dansbury Park Pool, Stroudsburg Borough Pool

Creative juices flow wide and deep in our Arts & Aquatics Enrichment Camp! In an ample assortment of artistic media and projects, express your creativity in inventive handiwork while learning the history and beginnings of many popular and practical crafts. Did you know that tie-dye, popularized by hippies in the sixties, originated in ancient China? When was paper invented, and how can it be made by hand? What do windsocks symbolize? (Custom-make your own to fly from your porch!) Create decorative sand candles, and candles of wax. Mold plaster of paris into useful objects and cast your pet’s footprint. Construct a toy sailboat and race the currents of the Brodhead Creek. Create hand puppets, build a sundial, invent a gadget—and much more. In the afternoons, relax and refresh in the pool, swimming and playing water games.

Especially Yours Enrichment Camp Ages 6-14
Dates: August 18-22

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $90

Locations: Day Street Community Center and Dansbury Park

Especially for children with special cognitive, emotional, and physical needs, we are pleased to provide a full week of active opportunities tailored to their individual abilities. In an adaptation of our popular Stroud Kids Summer format of activities, and with a larger Staff to Camper ratio, we work to encourage, endorse, and enable our students as full participants in the fun and fullness of the day camp experience. Those who utilize a TSS at school are recommended to be accompanied by one at camp.