Channel 3 Kids Camp serves over 3,000 children each year through our summer and year-round recreational and educational programs.
Each year nearly 3,000 individuals ages 3-25 from Connecticut and areas throughout New England attend the Channel 3 Kids Camp in Andover, CT. The unique, year-round facility makes it possible for all children to attend camp regardless of economic, physical, or developmental ability.
Children who attend Channel 3 Kids Camp participate in a variety of activities and choose their own self-selected activities throughout the week. Activities include the ropes course, master gardeners program, performing arts, movie making, rock climbing, nature education, arts & crafts, swimming, computers, athletics, archery and more!
In addition to summer camp sessions, the Kids Camp provides after school programs, home school enrichment programs, weekend retreat rentals, respite weekends and serve as a host site for Nature's Classroom.
To provide fun year-round opportunities to children of all abilities, families and communities through educational and recreational programs that promote diversity, acceptance and environmental appreciation.
Channel 3 Kids Camp is more than a summer camp, but a year round camp facility. Our programs include:
• Channel 3 Kids Camp offers traditional overnight summer camp for children ages 8-18.
• Summer Day Camp for children ages 6-12.
• Respite Weekends
• Year-round preschool program serving children ages 3-5
• Specialty camp weeks with MDA, Epilepsy Foundation, ADA, and BESB.
• Military Kids Camp designed to foster camaraderie, community and support for children of parents serving in the military.
• Year-round teen leadership program: social, academic, career and cultural development for ‘graduated’ campers.
• Siblings Connections sessions which reunites separated siblings in foster care through a therapeutic camp experience.
• Hosts Nature’s Classroom, an residential environmental program promoting an
academic experience, with an emphasis on scientific inquiry and critical
thinking.
• Camp Venture’s enrichment classes for elementary schools that provides fun, educational, scientific based classes in an after-school format.
• Hosts Nature’s Classroom, a premier outdoor education program for students and teachers during the school year. The residential environmental program promotes an academic experience, with an emphasis on scientific inquiry and critical thinking.
• On weekends, camp hosts a variety of educational programs including local church youth programs, university students, scouting organizations and
foreign exchange students. Young people from all over New England are
able to enjoy the peaceful setting and natural wonderment that the camp
provides.
