About Our Program:

Summer sunshine and healthy fun all summer long. Different activities daily; no two days alike! Pools, beach, different parks, gymnastics, karate, sports of all kinds, drama, nature, arts and crafts, singing, dancing, chess, games, and a different trip in and around NYC each week. Our Exploring Beyond campers have the option of adding additional overnight trips. Parents enjoy our flexible weekly schedules and great camper to counselor ratios. Third graders through eighth graders can mix and match the different programs.

Location:

Park Explorers

611 8th Avenue (corner of 6th street)

Basement of Saint Saviors Church

Drop off & Pick up

611 8th Avenue

(between 6th & 7th streets)

DATES: Friday June 27 to Friday August 29.

Choose the weeks that you want; weeks need not be consecutive.

Closed July 4th.

Hours:

Camp hours 8:30 am to 3:30 pm.

Extended hours: 3:30 until 6:30 at an additional charge

Early drop off begins at 8:00 am no additional charge

AGES: 4 through 14 years.

Small co-ed groups, grouped by grade

Each camper brings a backpack with a lunch, snack, towel, sun Block lotion, and refillable water bottle. Campers will receive three camp shirts on their first day. Shirts are to be worn each day. We get plenty dirty. Good clothes are not recommended.. Good shoes that cover the feet are a must. No open-toed or slip-ons shoes allowed. Or goal is to have fun, play hard and stay healthy

Our Philosophy

1. ✦We believe in children and healthy sunshine.
   

2. ✦Summer should be filled with enough activities to be busy but not so rigid there
   isn′t time for choice or use of a child′s imagination.
   

3. ✦We believe that play is learning.
   

4. ✦We believe in the process of doing and exploring rather than worrying about the finish product.
   

5. ✦ We believe all parents should be able to approach our staff with any issues they feel are important to their child.
   

6. ✦We believe in listening to each parent who knows their child better than anyone.
   

7. ✦Most of all we believe in a safe, fun and enriched experience different that what campers can get during the school year.

Who are Park Explorers?

In 1983 at a neighbor′s request, Christine Altman put together a small informal summer playgroup. Each day in July, this small group of children, aged three through five explored Prospect Park. As parents got to know about us, they asked if it was possible to join in. Park Slope, spread the word and this small group became a larger group requiring the help of local parents and student′s.

Children continued to come, so what started as a group of young preschool children ages three to five years, now became a group of school age children ages four through ten. With the older children, came the need to expand the scope of activities and soon we were traveling outside the neighborhood utilizing Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The group kept growing so a decision had to be made. If we were to continue, permits to use the Park and Beaches were needed. Permits required insurance, certification and a building. We persevered, with borrowed buildings. Now we were going into the month of August as well. We continued to grow.

There were no advertisements, no listed phone numbers, no web sites, and yet parents found us. Keeping the name Park Explorers that was picked out by the children we became in the year 2000 a fully licensed day camp by the NYC Board of Health.

Now we have over a hundred campers and have the wonderful facility of Saint Saviours Church basement as our home site. We are fully insured and licensed; we hire professionals as well as students to keep the campers safe and happy. Our Campers got older and with them the age limits. Now we take four through fourteen year olds, and at fifteen our campers are eligible to become CIT′s and part of our team.

No longer are we an exclusive Park Slope group. Yellow school buses pick up children from around the Prospect Park areas, plus some. We go on local and overnight trips in New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsylvania and Upstate NY.

And now... Some of our staff are camper′s who came up through the program from their early years in the camp to continue being part of the Park Explorers experience.

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