2023 Programming

The Battle on the Board

Prepare for another epic Alpha Games Battle! Last year, we added daily activity challenges and Alpha Spirit Day, which will be back again this summer. We don’t want to give away all the new updates to Alpha Games this year, but we are excited to share the new theme for this summer, the Battle on the Board! During the Battle on the Board, not only will your team compete in a giant board game throughout camp, you will also help create the rules to the game. We can’t wait to see which teams earn the title as Alpha this summer.

REMINDER!! If you attended camp in 2021 or 2022 you will be on the SAME TEAM for the rest of your time at Foley. Make sure to bring clothes that match your team color. If you are not sure which team you were on, let us know and we can tell you! If you have not been here the past two summers, you will find out your team when you are at camp this summer, so make sure to bring at least one green, blue, green, and yellow item of clothing!

Congrats to our Winning Alpha Teams:

1st Session – Blue Team
2nd Session – Red Team
3rd Session – Green Team

Late Night Adventure: Camp Jam Carnival

Another fantastic Late-Night Adventure is in store for campers this summer. We are bringing back Camp Jam for our oldest campers and hosting a Camp Foley Carnival for our younger age groups. Camp Jam is a team competition where campers will be split up into small groups and have two hours to complete as many challenges as possible. Campers should be ready to get creative, be critical thinkers, be silly, and get messy! Meanwhile, everyone else will be competing in classic carnival games to earn tickets for their cabins and eventually will use those tickets to purchase the opportunity to pie a counselor! There will also be other classic Carnival Festivities, such as music, facepainting, and the main attraction of the night…a Dunk Tank!!

4th of July

It’s 2023 and 4th of July is back at camp! We will be bringing back our classic 4th of July games for an all-camp evening program! There will also be patriotic challenges in our daily activities. If you will be here during the first three-week session, make sure to bring red, white, and blue clothes to wear!

Cowboy Party

We had a blast at our Pirate Party last year, and Early bird registrants should be ready for Cowboys in 2023!! We are so happy to have over 120 campers who registered early for camp this summer. These campers will get to attend our Cowboy Party. Get ready for tasty snacks, classic cowboy music, fantastic prizes, and the chance to show off your lasso skills on our new steers that were crafted this winter. If you registered early, make sure to bring your best Cowboy outfit!

Club Day

Each year we get an amazing group of individuals that come to work at camp. One of the best things about our counselors is that they all have unique passions, talents, and interests. We want to find a way to highlight their unique abilities by bringing back our “Clubs.” During one evening program night, counselors were each in charge of a club that showcases their unique talent! We were blown away by the skills our staff came with in 2022. Campers had many different clubs to choose from each session, like drama, ultimate frisbee, dance, Lego building, sketching, Magic the Gathering, and Bracelet weaving. Club Night is returning in 2023!

Founders Day

Every session we have a day set aside to celebrate some of our older traditions in anticipation for our 100-year anniversary in 2024. We call it Founder’s Day in honor of our founder Father John P. Foley. We ask campers to dress up in nicer or “fancier” clothing for a special dinner. We sit separated into boys’ and girls’ cabins, to mimic how campers sat in the 70s when girls first came to Foley. Dinner is followed by a Camp Talent Show, another historical tradition. We had many campers showcase amazing talents, like a piano performance from a camper studying to be a concert pianist, radical yo-yo tricks, gymnastic routines, hula hoop tricks, and even campers singing some original compositions. The whole camp would then head to the wabi to enjoy a historical presentation by Marie, our director, that shows some snapshots of Foley in the 1930s and how it has changed over the years. It’s a wonderful chance for all our campers to get a glimpse into the rich history of Camp Foley.