Sandlot Camp 2020 is a GO!!!!!!!
COVID-19 UPDATE
Thank you for your support and patience as we move forward with camp this summer. We have put together new rules in order to meet STATE and LOCAL health protocols for camp this summer. We have put many hours and talked with many people on the best way to do things this year, where the kids will be as safe as possible and still have fun. Many changes are to meet new guidelines. Thanks again and if you have any questions please email or call.
Things to remember
Concession
We will have a concession at camp each day that you are welcome to send money for. We ask that you put the money in a zip lock bag with the amount written on the bag. When your child purchases a snack they will hand the bag to the worker and they will do the change and place it back in the bag and write the new total on the bag. This way the kids never touch the money. After they buy their snack they will be asked to sanitize their hands before they are able to eat it.
Things you will need to send
Field Trips
This will be the biggest change this year. We have been asked to not go on field trips and cannot put large groups of kids on a bus. We will be at the church all day but have come up with activities to bring the fun to us. We have really worked hard in coming up with things that will be fun for the kids, teach them new things, get them active but also allowing the to enjoy being kids!
A few examples but not all are:
Sandlot Scuba
At this time we are still trying to come up with a plan for this. We may put together groups on the weekends and this would take parents driving their kids to the pool on the weekend and watching them in their scuba class. This would allow you to see them do this amazing activity, and at the same time allow the kids who were looking forward to it to not miss out. More details will follow.
WEATHER
This will be a huge hurtle for us this year, but something we will try everything we can to have camp each day. If we have a day that is rain all day, in the past we would get on a bus and go somewhere. This year with no buses we cannot do that. If it is a light rain or just rain and warm we will still play outside with the kids. One of my favorite things as a kid was playing in the rain! We will also help show the kids and make rain ponchos with the trash bags you should send on the first day of camp. If a storm would come in and there was any thunder or lightning we would go inside right away. This is where the kids could where the scarfs they made on the first day and we would try to keep them separated as much as possible. Once the storm went through we could go back to our daily schedule. ***If it is a day of nothing but downpours and storms camp may be cancelled for the day, just like a school snow day*** we ask that you check the website each wet morning to make sure camp is a go. I know this is a pain, and really their is nothing else we can do to follow state guidelines, and keep everyone safe and have social distancing in the event it is a rainout. We may even just do a half day instead of a rain out if we can. If it is just raining all morning we may just have you drop the campers off after lunch, or if it is raining all afternoon have early pick up. I hope we never have to have this happen, but want to have everyone prepared in case.
Thank you again, and we are committed to you and your kids to provide a fun and safe environment this summer. If you have any questions or concerns please email or call anytime. We know Sandlot will look different this summer, but instead of thinking about wanting to be the old way, we have decided to look at it as we can make the new way better. That is what we will try and accomplish this summer! Again, thank you and have a great and safe summer!
Sandlot Staff
COVID-19 UPDATE
Thank you for your support and patience as we move forward with camp this summer. We have put together new rules in order to meet STATE and LOCAL health protocols for camp this summer. We have put many hours and talked with many people on the best way to do things this year, where the kids will be as safe as possible and still have fun. Many changes are to meet new guidelines. Thanks again and if you have any questions please email or call.
- On the first day when you drop your kids off, parents will not get out of their car. You will pull up and let your child out at the front parking lot (will be marked) of the church. When you see our worker standing there you will give them a thumb up as a signal that you have taken the temperature of your camper and they do not have a fever of 100 or greater. They also have shown no signs of illness.
- Once your child is dropped off they will be asked to sanitize their hands before they are then directed to their sitting area. We will also take the campers temperature each day with a touch-less thermometer.
- **Each child will need to bring a lawn chair with them each day. These will be set up in the parking lot 6 feet away from all other campers. This will act as a visual to show the kids 6 feet, as well as give them an area to sit in the morning as we do check in. This will be their area throughout the day. They will set their lunch and belongings here. Families will be able to sit right next to one another. In the event of rain we will move lunches to another area to stay dry.
- Once they are at camp we will help the kids separate into teams. Each Camper will be on a team of 9 campers for the week. This group of 9 will be in a league of 4 teams. They will compete against this league of 4 throughout the week. We will make sure they are with people they desire since they will be with this group for the week. This way we will be keeping the kids separated throughout the week.
- We will have four leagues going on each day at 4 separate locations. One will be in the shelter, main field, front parking lot and church. We will rotate through activities throughout the day. Each rotation equipment will be sanitized, we will have everyone wash their hands and this will be logged each time. The kids will wash their hands every hour through the day.
- We will have staff sanitizing all handles, bathrooms and equipment all throughout the day.
- Lunches need to be packed in a lunch box that the kids take home. This is because we are going to ask that all trash be placed back in their lunch box and taken home each night to prevent the spread of germs around trash cans. The kids will be able to eat their lunch spread out outside each day as the safest practice.
- We ask that you please place a small hand sanitizer in your child's bag each day that they can use as needed and wanted.
- We will always have the children enter and exit from different doors of the church when using restrooms and rotating stations so that two groups are not passing by one another.
- In the event that will have to move indoor as a group because of bad weather we will do everything we can to keep kids spread out. The state has asked that at this time if they cannot be 6 ft apart that they have a mask on. We will not be making kids wear mask to play or do activities for the fact we are outside, heat, and communication purposes, but if you would like your child to wear one please contact and let me know.
- We know that all kids do not have mask, so on the first day will will be designing scarfs with the kids and their teams to make it fun and unique for the kids. They will have this scarf to keep and use for the week if needed or wanted and as a keep sake from camp. Each team will be able to design and make their own, and always remember the year Sandlot took on COVID-19!
- On the first day each team will be given a pick up location, and you can drive right up to pick them up each day. On the first day you will just come right back to church parking lot. From that day on we will have four locations. Shelter, Church, Drive up to Shelter and Side of Church. Your camper will be able to communicate your location. If it is raining you will pick up in the overhang of the church.
- When you drive up to get your child please have their first and Last name on a piece of paper (Large) and hold it up for the coach to see. Please leave window up,and do not get out of your car and we will bring them to you. Before they leave to go home each day each child will be asked to wash their hands once again.
Things to remember
- We will have smaller group sizes this year and stay in the same group.
- We will have hand washing and equipment washing every hour and every time we rotate.
- We will sanitize all common areas and surfaces all throughout the day.
- We ask that while your camper is at camp each week to try and keep them at home each night. If you take them out and about they could bring germs into our camp setting.
- Please keep your camper away from older family member and people with health issues throughout their camp week and 14 days after to be sure they are healthy.
Concession
We will have a concession at camp each day that you are welcome to send money for. We ask that you put the money in a zip lock bag with the amount written on the bag. When your child purchases a snack they will hand the bag to the worker and they will do the change and place it back in the bag and write the new total on the bag. This way the kids never touch the money. After they buy their snack they will be asked to sanitize their hands before they are able to eat it.
Things you will need to send
- lawn chair each day
- Sign COVID-19 release form online under the registration tab
- You camper number with your child on the first day
- Filled out emergency medical form (you can find under registration tab)
- lunch in a lunch box
- hand sanitizer for your camper
- sun screen
- water in a water bottle
- trash bag that we will make rain ponchos with the kids for fun
- clothes that are weather appropriate (if it is chilly send a jacket, if we are doing water games dress in swim gear under clothes, wet day maybe older shoes etc.)
Field Trips
This will be the biggest change this year. We have been asked to not go on field trips and cannot put large groups of kids on a bus. We will be at the church all day but have come up with activities to bring the fun to us. We have really worked hard in coming up with things that will be fun for the kids, teach them new things, get them active but also allowing the to enjoy being kids!
A few examples but not all are:
- A giant inflatable slip N slide
- Nerf wars
- water gun wars
- designing t-shirt, or shoes (parents choice-the cheep white slip on ones from mejier are great, or shirt that parents would provide) and we will let you know which day that will be.
- Kona-Ice
- Neighborhood scavenger hunts through Alum Creek Neighborhood
- Many more water games
- and more
Sandlot Scuba
At this time we are still trying to come up with a plan for this. We may put together groups on the weekends and this would take parents driving their kids to the pool on the weekend and watching them in their scuba class. This would allow you to see them do this amazing activity, and at the same time allow the kids who were looking forward to it to not miss out. More details will follow.
WEATHER
This will be a huge hurtle for us this year, but something we will try everything we can to have camp each day. If we have a day that is rain all day, in the past we would get on a bus and go somewhere. This year with no buses we cannot do that. If it is a light rain or just rain and warm we will still play outside with the kids. One of my favorite things as a kid was playing in the rain! We will also help show the kids and make rain ponchos with the trash bags you should send on the first day of camp. If a storm would come in and there was any thunder or lightning we would go inside right away. This is where the kids could where the scarfs they made on the first day and we would try to keep them separated as much as possible. Once the storm went through we could go back to our daily schedule. ***If it is a day of nothing but downpours and storms camp may be cancelled for the day, just like a school snow day*** we ask that you check the website each wet morning to make sure camp is a go. I know this is a pain, and really their is nothing else we can do to follow state guidelines, and keep everyone safe and have social distancing in the event it is a rainout. We may even just do a half day instead of a rain out if we can. If it is just raining all morning we may just have you drop the campers off after lunch, or if it is raining all afternoon have early pick up. I hope we never have to have this happen, but want to have everyone prepared in case.
Thank you again, and we are committed to you and your kids to provide a fun and safe environment this summer. If you have any questions or concerns please email or call anytime. We know Sandlot will look different this summer, but instead of thinking about wanting to be the old way, we have decided to look at it as we can make the new way better. That is what we will try and accomplish this summer! Again, thank you and have a great and safe summer!
Sandlot Staff
