Summer camps galore at Fallbrook Community Center

FALLBROOK − The Fallbrook Community Center has plenty of activities scheduled to keep kids active, happy and busy this summer.

The center will offer eight different active camps with existing themes and field trips for children ages 5 to 12. Following is a brief look at each of them.

• June 13-17: Students will partake in the Amazing Race, learning about different cultures and countries through games, music, foods and crafts.
• June 20-24: Children will explore deep space, learning about planets, gravitational pull, flying comets and what it takes be an astronaut.
• June 27-July 1: Campers will move and groove with a week full of games and activities that focus on having fun, developing sportsmanship, and learning how to be a team player.
• July 5-8: Campers will enjoy a week full of sports and learn team building through friendly competition in soccer, volleyball, capture the flag, flag football and more.
• July 11-15: Campers will get an up-close-and-personal look at the natural world around them during Navigating Nature Days, which will teach kids some basic tracking techniques, how to read clues in the landscape, and solve a natural mystery.
• July 18-22: Campers will enjoy superhero camp, which features a week full of costumes, super powers, magic and learning what it takes to become a true super hero by working together as a team and doing good for mankind.
• July 25-29: Campers will have some swashbuckling fun as they'll dress like pirates, talk like pirates, hunt for treasure, and walk the plank.
• Aug. 1-5: Campers will say Aloha to playing various Hawaiian-themed games, musical beach towels, beach ball bonanza, and hula hoops as well as enjoy pineapple pops, temporary tattoos, leis, Hawaiian music, and erupting volcanoes.

In addition to summer camps, the community center will hold beginning tennis workshops (Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.), a hands-on physics camp (June 20-23, 9:30 a.m. to noon), and an eight week-long art camp (June 6 to Aug. 5, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., ages 8 to 12).

A fun counselor-in-training program for youth 13 to 17 years of age is also available. Registration is now open and the camps fill up fast. Camps costs are low due to generous donor support, and some one-week scholarships are available for families with financial needs. Early registrants get an even greater discount.

For more information, contact the community center at (760) 728-1671, email [email protected], or go to http://www.fallbrookcommunitycenterfriends.org.