This Grandma is over the top about sending camp packages. You just have to look at the 2013 post about camp packages. My grandson said my packages were the biggest the camp ever saw. So when the camp instituted a no package policy, I personally think I had something to do with it. I used to start shopping for the camp packages at after Christmas sales!
What is a grandma to do when camp no longer allows mailing packages?
First, there is no limit as to what a camper can bring in his trunk and duffle and backpack–except size, so think small things. I took my grandson shopping during spring break for his camp supplies and was distressed that our local Learning Express did not have their summer camp stock in yet! They were confused until I explained the camp’s new policy. Now, I think, they are going to put their summer order in sooner. I am going to see my grandson again right before he leaves for camp and we will look again for more of what would normally go into a camp package. There IS a bright side to this no camp package policy. Now not only do I get another activity in which my grandson is happy to get presents, but I also have the ease of letting him pick what he wants.
Being long distance, I still look on line and send some things to his house for him to take with him. Think disposable cameras.
Think Think Fun games.
Yoyos have been the thing to have the last few years. This year, there are some special new designs and features to pick from.
Then, of course, I like to send him mail every day. I start addressing envelopes at the middle of June to get 49 done. When our children went to sleep away camp, it was eight weeks. Now it is seven weeks and let’s not talk about the cost….
I have gotten creative in my mailings. I cannot send Mad Lib books, but I can send three to four pages of a Mad Lib book in an envelope! I do the same with word search books. I cut them up and put three or four pages, and the respective answers, in an envelope. I even buy kids’ magazines and cut the up sending three to four pages in an envelope. Now, despite camp policy, he still gets packages, in small amounts at a time!
Leave it to this Grandma to figure out a way to fill 49 envelopes and get around a “no camp packages” policy!
Joy,
Mema
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