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5 Holiday Treats You Can Make as a Family
The Holidays are just around the corner, and that means COOKIES! Ok... ok... it also means coming together as a family and giving gifts and celebrating your own traditions. But who doesn't love a...
Alpha Games 2022
The Battle of the Factions! The 2022 Alpha Games was an all-session affair this summer! Alpha Daily challenges became a part of camp life. Everyday a new challenge was introduced for one activity...
Video Creativity- 1st Session
Time to get creative!!! We will be showcasing our expert camper talent in 3 different blogs to represent our 3 amazing camp sessions. This week is all about 1st session video creativity! This...
Camp Moves Me 2022 Wrap Up
We have come to the end of November and that means an end to our fundraising campaign Camp Moves Me! This year we raised $13,805, which is crazy to even type out!! We had over 120 people donate...
Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving! We want to shine a spotlight on one our favorite traits, Gratitude! Gratitude gets a lot of attention around Thanksgiving, its in the name! But we also talk about Gratitude...
Camp Foley Hosts 2022 High School Bass Championship
Time to catch some fish! This blog is from an article write up in the Northland Press, the local Crow Wing County Paper... On September 10th and 11th, Camp Foley was host to over 90 school...
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A Serious Need For Free Play
“When I was a kid, we played outside with no adult supervision, we didn’t need electronic gadgets to amuse us or coaches to tell us how to have fun”. I personally remember on many occasions my own...
Chris & Kyle Revamp the Wabi
Look at what we’ve done…or, should I say…"Look at WABI DONE!" During the spring of 2011, I was faced with the reality that Camp was in need of extra space! What with extra activities and increasing...
The importance of playing with your children
I am totally happy as a parent when I am outside “playing” with my children. A highlight over Christmas vacation was the adventures on frozen Whitefish Lake! We walked, we skated, and we played with...
4 City Tour
Hi everyone! Once again it is time to check in on all those great Foley reunions happening around the world. This month we are going to focus on the ones that Foley sets up...the beloved Pizza...
The Unexpected Visitor
I have been at camp Foley for many years, and I often hear amusing camp stories floating around the office, but my quest to bring you blog-worthy tales of happenings from around camp brought me in...
We are ready to be wolves!
When I agreed to interview Helena Hickok (2 year Foley Campers) and Riley O'Connor (1 year Foley Camper) for "The Rattlin' Blog", I was immediately struck with two thoughts - 1. This is going to be...
Meet Mr. Nick St. John
They say you have just a few seconds to make a good impression, and it's almost impossible to ever change it. Well lucky for me the first camper at Camp Foley I met was Nick St. John. Nick tells me...
We probably needed a bigger table
The best part of camp…..reunions! Oh! Surprise! You thought I was going to say soda bread or maybe waterskiing…well…I didn’t. While those things are of course way fun and more importantly actually...
Foley helps parents with ‘Child-Sickness’
Is the single most important thing about camp the fact that the child’s parents are not there? I’m sure for most campers this at least makes their top five. So why is it becoming so increasingly...
Tackling the trees…
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Well, what do you think about the opening quote? Does it make a noise? Does it not? Well, all I know is that the...
The Happiness Project
As a parent and a relatively new blog follower, I experienced profound joy when following one of my favorite blogs, The Happiness Project, and its author Gretchen Rubin had a wonderful, camp answer...
Slap Me on the Back!
This past week we had 100 6th graders from 4 different Minnesota schools join us for 5 days of environmental education and team building. As the buses arrived...it rained. As we ate our first...
Turtle Time
One of the best parts of spring in the North woods is the re-emergence of animal and plant life. After the long winter of cold and snow (don't get me wrong there are great parts about that, too) it...
Spring Flings By
I had two goals for the Spring of 2010. 1. I would start a blog for camp. 2. I would figure out how to blog. Done and done. I really don't know exactly what I am going to write about....
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