It’s an animal camp.
It’s a kids camp.
It’s a kids and animals and awesome life skills camp!
The Ontario SPCA has some big ideas to teach your little people. BARC – Basic Animal Responsibility Camp – is a weeklong humane education program offered to children aged 7-12. It really is perfect for kids who love animals, but it’s also an extraordinary opportunity go beyond that love, to learn more about the animal world they live in and how to become responsible citizens of that world. Let us tell you what we mean.
Humane education strives to provide accurate information about current issues, to help us all understand the consequences of our decisions. Our summer camp aims to instill respect and responsibility so we can face challenges and respond to them with integrity. And finally, humane education seeks to offer positive choices that benefit the individual, animals, and the environment so we can be empowered to create a more humane world.
To teach children these principles, BARC will break down into four exciting theme days this year. We’ll journey through the skies one day, travel the seas and waterways on another, visit the wild animals of the land on a third day, and bring the kids ‘home’ to discuss domestic animals on a fourth in-camp day.
Designed to keep children constantly engaged, throughout the week, there’ll be a multitude of animal activities, games and discussions, we’ll also have on site animal guests, and guest speakers. And on the final day of each camp week – we’ll go on a field trip to a dog or wildlife themed location to finish with, quite appropriately – a whole lot of barking.
2012 Camp Sessions
July 16-20 for ages 7-9
July 30-August 3 for ages 10-12
August 13-August 17 for ages 10-12
CAMP FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
