Quaker Camping - Sleep Opportunities for Kids
Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps
For families who seek over-night Friends summer camp for 6, 7, and 8 year-olds.
Five Friends' camps (on the US East Coast) fill the need. Registration for some begin in early December and camps can fill up in hours.
Those camps include:
3 Camps have a farm focus: Celo, Journey’s End Farm, and Tamarack Farm.
Farm and Wilderness has 5 overnight camps, Vermont
Two Camps devoted to the Performing Arts
Monteverde, Costa Rica, Theater Camp (This camp is the only bilingual camp)
Friends Music Camp, Earlham, IN
More camps that are non-profits, or connected to Yearly Meetings
Friends Camps with a Christian Focus
Camps owned by individual Friends that are grounded in Quaker values
Other Opportunities for kids of ALL ages:
Friend General Conference. Yearly Gathering.
Many residential Yearly Meeting Gatherings are fabulous places for kids to attend. Kids from birth to 8th grade are free at Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Annual Session.
Some Yearly Meetings have quarterly High School and Middle School conferences.
Many Friends Schools host summer day camps.
Many Friends camps also have family camps and work camps.