Co-ed Day Camp is full of learning and adventures. There are new themes to explore and staff committed to your camper’s growth throughout the summer.
2027 REGISTRATION opens December 1st at 6pm
Imagine the perfect day: You wake up, pack your lunch, grab your bathing suit and head out the door. Smiling counselors meet you at the front gate of Camp, ready to sing songs, play wacky sports, and laugh along with you all day long. We spend the morning digging for dinosaur bones or fighting off dragons. After lunch, we splash in the lake, paddle in our canoes, and cheer for our friends in archery. When you wave goodbye at the end of the day, you aren’t sad at all. That’s because you get to do it again TOMORROW! Sound perfect? It’s just another day at Camp Newaygo’s Day Camp.
We are excited to offer our Co-ed Day Camp to campers entering first through seventh grades. Our camp features unique, educational, and interactive programs where kids have the opportunity to grow into their best selves. Day campers spend their days participating in activities like archery, wilderness hikes, team building challenges, fishing, arts and crafts, and much more! Every Thursday will be a planned adventure day ranging from a canoe trip to Camp’s own private island to top secret missions. Programming takes places among 104 acres of beautiful undeveloped oak forest, natural wetlands, and an expansive private waterfront. During the week your child will be cared for, encouraged, and mentored by our outstanding camp counselors. We look forward to providing your child with positive experiences that will last a lifetime!
Summer 2027 will feature a full 9 weeks of summer themes along with two weeks of Spanish Immersion Day Camp the weeks of June 14-18 and August 9th-13th. Learn more HERE!
Check out all of this year’s great themes below!
Summer 2027 Weekly Themes!
This week is all about exploring other cultures to get a greater understanding, whether that be for our Spanish Immersion campers or our Around the Worlders. Campers will get to explore the variety of cultures our international staff bring to camp and many more, through activities, food, and a field trip to the Grand Rapids Public Museum for exploring and a show in the planetarium! Put on your safari hat and get out your notebook for Camp Newaygo’s Animal Week! We will explore various biomes and talk about some of the animals that live there and how they thrive. Games will be played and arts will be crafted, all in the name of showcasing our favorite animals, where they live, and how they thrive! This ferocious week is capped off with a trip to the John Ball Zoo! Leap into the lake, skip through a sprinkler, or slide down a massive slip’n’slide in our Splash Bash week, a summer party of water works, staving off the heat in the most fun possible ways! Capping this week off is a journey to Adventure Bound, a tried and true favorite for those who enjoy playing in the water! Art is for everyone and this week shows it! Join our staff as they and your camper explore artistic expression whether that be through drawing, singing, or even creating their own little cinematic masterpiece together! The stage is set and everyone is invited to join the cast! Anyone can be a hero with the right training and attitude, and this is where we come to hone just that! Learn what exactly that is and work hard alongside us as we all strive to become the heroes and heroines we each have within! This week our heroic training ends at an indoor trampoline park, bouncing our way towards inevitable victory! Survival is about more than just living, its about a positive mental attitude and a skillset to go along with it! Join us in this week as we learn some of those skills while reinforcing our Positive Mental Attitude all the way to a memorable canoe trek out to Turtle Island, one of camps most beloved stomping grounds! Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math are five of the things that cultivate the world around us in massive ways, so we endeavor to learn as much as we can while still having fun and creating wonders in this wild week of experiments and exploration! At the end of the week we will take a trip to the U.S.S. Silversides to see one example of these five things at work, a submarine! Newaygo and its surrounding areas are FILLED with exciting things to do and in this week we endeavor to see as many as we can! From learning about composting at a worm farm to soaring through the skies in a small plane with the Young Eagles club, this week is riddled with incredible opportunities for learning and wondrous experiences for having. Join us as we see a new site each and every day, familiarizing ourselves with all kinds of fun venues in our own backyard; Newaygo! In this final week of camp we strive to hit any of those funderful benchmarks we may have missed throughout the summer! Is it archery? Paddleboarding? A specific craft? Your imagination is the limit, if it can be done at camp, then we’ll do it! Don’t let any fun activity that we may have missed up until now in the summer go unexplored! Find Out About Camp Scholarships & Discounts Optional Day Camp Overnight Packing List Non-refundable deposit: $50 per session Cancellation At Least 30 Days Before Session: Families can cancel a reservation at least one month (30 days) before a program start date for a full refund, minus the deposit. The $50 deposit is non-refundable. There will be no refunds within 30 days of the session start date EMAIL US TO CANCEL A RESERVATION If you have questions or concerns, and would like to speak with someone on the phone, we will have staff available Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time): (231) 652-1184
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