New Jersey 4-H Camp
- How Was Camp?
- Cost of Camp
- Lantern Family BBQ
- Themes
- Session #1
- Session #2
- Session #3
- Session #4
- Session #5
- The BIG Session
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Sessions 1-5 - $900
BIG Session - $3075
Polar Bear Rates (11/16 - 12/31)
Sessions 1-5 - $850
BIG Session - $2875
4-H/Rutgers Discount
Sessions 1-4 - $25 off
BIG Session - $75 off
We believe every child should have the chance to go to sleepaway camp. If your family is facing financial hardship or difficulties, please call the Camp Office at 973-948-3550 to discuss the details of applying for an L.G. Cook 4-H Camp Campership or to go to our Campership application here.
Sunday, June 27th
We kick-off the summer season with our Lantern BBQ for families who have referred brand-new campers to 4-H Camp.
More information about the Lantern Family program can be found here
Themes are like the spice of a Summer Camp week, a way for us to “switch it up a bit” for each session of the season. 95% of every Camp week features the same great classic Camp schedule and activities, but each theme brings its own unique twist. Every Wednesday night we’ll have a theme activity, and the theme will always dictate Friday afternoon’s culminating all-camp game. The theme will also influence our campfires, talent shows, and what crazy costumes our counselors might be donning that week. We always recommend parents pick the session that fits their schedule best, but if a specific theme suits your camper, that just might be the best week for them to come to Camp!
Pirates of Lake Shawanni
We kick off the summer with PIRATES week! Lake Shawanni will become our seven seas and all the campers shall join together as a true crew of loyal mateys. Shores will be ahoyed, timbers will be shivered, treasure will be plundered, and we’ll talk as Pirates do FAR more than necessary. Through all the fun, adventure, and misadventure we’ll of course be sure to avoid scurvy with our large supply of readily available fresh fruit.
For Session #1, we are offering an optional early Sunday Drop-Off for just $75 per camper. Session #1 can start their week an evening early by arriving Sunday evening.
Whodunnit?
Chances are, during Whodunnit week, there will be an incident so surprising, so confounding, so puzzling that it will take our entire camp-full of amateur detectives to crack the case. We’ll all break out our notebooks and magnifying glasses as we sort through clues, hints, tip-offs, suspects and red-herrings to figure our exactly what is at the heart of our Summer Camp caper, and who’s behind it. (To go out on a limb, it’s probably going to end up being one of the counselors. The counselors are almost always behind this type of thing.)
Broken Time Machine
We’re going all the way to the back of the maintenance shop and dusting off our trusty 4-H Camp Time Machine! Sure, it’s been sitting idle for a couple seasons, but we’re confident the ol’ thing still works just fine. We’ll fire the contraption up and journey to all the great historic time periods, from the Stone Age to Ancient Rome to The Renaissance and off to the future and beyond. It’ll go great, and we’ll arrive at and depart all our destinations with no issues or exciting mishaps whatsoever. Like everything else on our 77-year-old facility, it’s held up just fine and we never have any problems with it, so the Time Machine is sure to work perfectly and certainly won’t be broken at all.
Campandemonium
Camp (proper noun) - Colloquial shortened term referring to the New Jersey 4-H Camp, your classic-rustic-tech-free-new-friend-making-caring-community-building-more-fun-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-summer-home-away-from-home.
Pandemonium (noun)- Wild and noisy disorder and confusion. An uproar.
Campandemonium (also a noun. Maybe a verb?) - Just you wait and see.
It’s going to be a switch-up, change-up, switch-change, change-switch-it-up kind of week. Last time we discovered a mirror universe. Sure hope that doesn’t happen again.
MYSTERY BOX
There’s a revered and surprising tradition here at 4-H Camp, in which a cleanest cabin winner or Battle For the Island victor has the opportunity to pick between a known prize…or risk selecting the appearance of a MSYTERY BOX. (A camp wide chant usually accompanies its arrival. MYS-TER-RY BOX. MYS-TER-RY BOX.) There’s no thrill quite like the one that ripples through 4-H Camp each time a mystery box arrives.
Well, if one Mystery Box is so good, what about a whole session of Mystery Boxes?
How many mystery boxes? When will they arrive? What will it mean for our Camp schedule, daily happenings, and overall zaniness of the session? Well, we suppose that’s…the mystery. What will the week entail? We’ll have to wait and check in the box.
THE BIG SESSION
This August, we are offering our 7th annual BIG SESSION. Designed for returning campers who have already loved their time at 4-H Camp in the past (or new campers who are confident that 4-H Camp is the place for them to spend most of a month), simply put, it’s a lot MORE CAMP. If the one-week sessions are a go-go-go “event”, then the Big Session is all about the “camp lifestyle” where campers get the opportunity to just enjoy residing at 4-H Camp for an extended period of time. Featuring all the themes from earlier in the summer, our BIG classes, and a ton of activities exclusive to our Big Session, we build a special kind of community that can only be accomplished in 18 straight days at 4-H Camp.
