Does your child love to jump, twirl, twist and cheer? Don’t go crazy listening to endless cheers this summer! Get a break from cheering and send your child to something they will love doing at cheer camp! Let them meet new friends and do something they love. Here is the list of a few cheerleading camps for kids:
American Dance Training Camp:
Open to girls ages 8-17 your child can go to any of the four camp locations in Squaw Valley, California, Nantahala, North Carolina, Winter Park, Colorado, or Stratton Mountain, Vermont. The camp is open for everyone from beginners to advanced performers.
The camps teach hip/hop, jazz, lyrical, and musical dance theatre style to improve their dance elements for cheerleading. All camps are weeklong camps. The last night of camp, dancers perform their newly learned elements at a camp show. All instructors are certified, and excellent accomodations are available. Camp prices start at $800.
For more information, call 866-383-ADTC or go to the website at www.americandancetrainingcamps.com.
ECSA Cheerleading Camp:
This camp is packed with plenty of fun for campers! This camp is a day only camp filled with cheering, tumbling, and more. The camp offers four 3 day camps during the summer.
The price for camp is $65 and includes pom poms, t-shirt, award, crafts, and snacks. Camps run from 9am-12pm or from 1pm-4pm. These camps are available for Pre-K-6th grade. No overnight camps are offered.
Summer at Galludet Cheerleading Camp
This one week camp is designed for deaf or hard of hearing children ages 10-17. The cheer camp is one week long and kids stay on the Galludet University campus. Camp assistants and directors will pick your child up directly at the airport and accompany them to the camp.
While at camp, kids get to meet new friends who enjoy the same things they do. Kids learn to cheer, tumble and learn good sportsmanlike conduct as they cheer and room together! The cost of the program is only $250 for the week. Transportation to the facility is the responsibility of parents. Currently, the 2009 dates have not been listed. Although the camp is for the hearing impaired and hard of hearing, hearing children and siblings may apply but may not get first priority.
Stay Local
If you feel your child may not want to stay overnight at a kids camp, or you just can’t afford to send them, consider doing a local search for cheerleading camps and classes.
KidsCamps.com offers a full listing of cheerleading camps available across the United States. They offer phone numbers, and links to applicable websites.
Looking at your local city recreation programs may also provide you a good list of local camps being offered during the summer.
Finding a cheerleading camp for children can be pretty hard. Most are one to three day clinics offered only during the day. Once your child actually becomes a cheerleader and trains with a junior high or high school squad, more opportunities open up to travel with their squad to numerous locations and camps throughout the country. Many of the cheerleading camps offered aren’t for kids under junior high age, and many require you be affiliated with a squad or school.
ECSA Cheerleading Camp
12600 Bradford Farms Lane
Edmond, Oklahoma 73003
405-340-2551
405-519-5539
Summer at Galludet
800 Florida Ave NE
Washington, DC, 20002
202-651-5340
http://cpso.gallaudet.edu/CPSO_Home/Summer_2009_Programs.html
2008 Cheerleading Camp Info: http://cpso.gallaudet.edu/Documents/Academic/CPSO/cheer.pdf
Kid’s Camps
http://www.kidscamps.com/camps/u.s.a.-cheerleading-camps.html
