Summer Camp

Looking for some fun and inexpensive ways to hang with the kiddos this summer? Look no further! Here’s a sampling of some of the free and frugal summer activities you can expect this year. Do you see something missing? Let us know in the comments! Kids Bowl Free: This year, only …

Looking for a fun, enriching activity for your children while they’re on Spring Break? Artsy Craftsy is a home based art program, and they’re offering half day art camps in South Reno. Shwetha Bayya is a local artist that started the Artsy Craftsy business in 2010, which now has three …

Spring Break is just around the corner for WCSD students – a two week break thanks to the balanced calendar. And if you’re anything like me, you’re starting to wonder what options you have for at least a portion of that time. I didn’t have to wonder long. My daughter, …

I loved going to sleepover summer camp as a kid. As in it was the highlight of my youth. In fact, I have an entire scrapbook from the camp I went to my junior year in high school, where I wrote a poem about how much I loved camp. (Yes, …

Last Saturday, several Reno Moms Blog contributors, along with their kiddos, spent the morning at Urban Roots. Founded on the idea that food is a powerful tool for academic and sustainable agriculture instruction, Urban Roots provides school and farm-based opportunities for teachers, students, families, and future farmers. We spent time …

It’s summertime: school is out, the days are long and opportunities to play outside beckon. Summer is a nostalgic season that always seems to call up the past in the best way…how many memories do you drift back to, and your bicycle was involved? For most of us, it’s many. …

I have a case of summer nostalgia. I get it every year about this time. As a child of the 70s, I remember three-month summer vacations filled with seemingly countless hours of lying around doing nothing. I think of when I was 7, the same age my daughter is now. …

School is over and summer is officially here! For many of our children, this means summer camps and sleepaway camps in particular. Part of your child’s success at camp depends on the preparations you make together before he/she ever leaves home. Here are some ideas for making the experience smoother …

Allowing kids the opportunity to develop independence can be a struggle for many parents who question the safety and security of their child’s learning environment. Yet, child psychologists believe children develop their sense of independence by being away from their parents’ meticulous, and sometimes extreme, safety net. Summer camp provides an …

School gets out tomorrow.  There is excitement in the air.  I remember how exciting it was as a kid, with the long weeks of summer stretched out before me. But as a mother that works full time, the coming of summer isn’t as joyful and freeing as it used to be …