Let's Talk About Clothing!!
The information here will contain all pertinent information as to: What to pack? How to Carry? What is necessary? Lost & Found? & other valuable advice - please read carefully!
Equipment
ARROWHEAD will provide all necessary equipment (bats, balls, tennis rackets, etc.) for a typical day at camp. The only exception would be baseball gloves - these should be clearly labeled.
All wet clothing (bathing suits & Towels) will be hung up to dry on our dozens or clotheslines nightly and collected each morning.
All clothing should be sent to camp in the ARROWHEAD laundry bag to be given to you by your child's driver before camp begins. BE SURE TO PRINT THE CAMPERS NAME ON THE BAG. The clothing will remain in your child's individual locker (cubbie) at camp. Any dirty clothes (including bathing suits and towels) will be sent home each Friday. Clean replacements are to be sent back to camp on the following Monday. Please discourage the kids from bringing backpacks - they are not necesary and easily misplaced.
Please DO NOT bring anything of value to camp (jewelry, radios, baseball cards, money, ipods, Gameboy, etc.) as they are easily misplaced, lost, broken or even stolen (camp is NOT responsible).
In our never-ending effort to limit lost or misplaced items, we strongly recommend having all items coming to camp properly labeled with name tapes or other permanent markings of identifications. Unlabeled items are most difficult to identify and are easily misplaced. First and last names (no initials) please!
CLOTHING
The following items will be needed on the first day of camp:
2 bathing suits
2 towels
1 extra pair of shorts
1 sweatshirt/light jacket
1 extra t-shirt
1 pair of jeans
1 extra set of underwear
1 comb or brush
1 extra pair of socks
1 pair of pool shoes
sunblock
water bottle
WHERE ARE THE CLOTHES I SENT TO CAMP?
Over the past few decades we have established a method of clothing to minimize the loss of your children's clothing in camp. All campers use the Brown Paper Bag method of clothing storage.
This is what we do:
Children bring their laundry bag to camp with their bathing suits, towels, extra set of clothing, sweatshirt, jeans, etc.
Upon arrival to the bunk the counselor assigns each camper a cubbie (locker) with their name on it.
The counselor puts only the child's bathing suits and towels in the cubbie.
All other clothing is put in a brown paper bag with the child's name on it and stored on a separate shelf in the bunk - out of the camper's reach.
The clothing is kept this way so that the children have less items to deal with on a daily basis. Usually, the kids use only their bathing suits and towels. If the occasion should arise that they need their extra clothing the counselor is able to locate it immediately and give your child what they need. For you this means less laundry. The only things that should come home for washing each week are bathing suits and towels. At the end of the summer, you should get ALL of your children's clothing returned in their laundry bag.
So to answer the question Where are the clothes I send to camp?... The clothes are safely stored in a brown paper bag in their bunk!
LOST AND FOUND PROCEDURES
Every camp day after the kids depart we begin our daily cleanup procedure which includes picking up and identifying any and all belongings that are not in its proper place. If the item is CLEARLY labeled we distribute these items to the identified camper during morning lineup!
