For 50 years Green Acres has been providing outdoor country day camp experiences for children ages 2 1/2 to 15 years old.
The goal of our summer programs is to get children outdoors in a fun, safe, and spirited environment. We would like each camper to grow in knowledge, self-respect and self-esteem, skill development, leadership and co-operation.
Our camp community is a place for children to grow as individuals. We provide a setting where our campers can feel safe about accepting challenges and reaching beyond self imposed limits.
Our Programs
Parents love the flexibility of being able to choose or mix-and-match between our amazing camp programs.
TRADITIONAL CAMP
Camp programs are geared to each age group. As our campers grow up with us, they graduate from unit to unit. Graduating to a new unit at camp also means getting to try new activities that were not available at the earlier stages.
Along with their counsellors, campers participate in a variety of age appropriate activities, most of which are taught by specialty instructors. Each day, campers can look forward to five different activities, in addition to an instructional and recreational swim.
With over 40 activities at camp your child will have a great mix of art, science, nature, sport, outdoor adventure, and performing arts activities.
Woodworking Jewelry and Beading Gaga & Tetherball Visual Art Music Jewelry and Beading Copper Gymnastics Martial Arts Mini Golf | All That Glitters Baseball Flag Football Drums Landsports & Co-operative Games Kangoo Dance Junior Pottery Musical Theatre & Drama Junior Waterslide Park | iCompute Science Soccer Baton Twirling Arts & Crafts Acro & Cheerleading Archery Ponies Kangoo Jumps Cooking | Farm Basketball Tennis Trike Track Ropes & Rock Climbing Parachute Games Mountain Biking Lego Recording |
ALL-STAR SPORTS CAMP
Choose from 14 different sports taught by experienced instructors. For campers completing SK to Grade 7.
MAJOR SPORTS Pick One Per Week | Minor SPORTS Pick Two Per Week |
Flag Football In-line Hockey (Weeks 1-4) Golf Tennis Soccer Basketball Baseball Extreme Biking Ball Hockey (Weeks 7, 8 & 9) | Ice Hockey (Weeks 5 & 6) – Double Minor Ball Hockey Golf – Double Minor Tennis Soccer Basketball Baseball Lacrosse Landsports Rock Climbing & Rope Challenges Skatepark Adventures – Double Minor |
MYCAMP - ALL-ELECTIVE PROGRAM
Campers choose to participate only in those activities they love most while having fun and learning new skills!
Campers who have completed Grade 3 or higher choose from over 20 activities each week.
Each week at MyCAMP, campers participate in five of their favourite activities on a daily basis, under the instruction of our talented Creative Specialists. Campers also enjoy a daily recreational swim or optional instructional swim (additional fee applies).
Gifted & Talented | Applied/Fine Arts | Performing Arts | Sports |
Rocketry Magic Lego Games of Strategy Card Games Babysitting Course Wild Nature Speed Stacking Chess Club Wacky Science | Scrapbooking Pottery Digital Photography Crafts & Fine Arts Cake Decorating Jewelry Club Digital Video Costume & Set Design Video Comic Book Lego Animation Project Runway Clay Animation Video Game Design Creative Book Publishing Girls Glam Club | Cheerleading Baton Twirling MyCAMP Idol Musical Theatre Dance Drama Drums Breakdance Glee Club Hip-Hop DJ Workshop Guitar Camp Rock | Ball Hockey Ropes & Rock Climbing Volleyball Frisbee Golf & Ultimate Frisbee Archery Biking GAGA & Tetherball Jump Rope Flag Football Water Polo Synchronized Swimming Ping Pong Lacrosse Landsports Badminton |
CEDAR CREEK RIDING CAMP
Our goal is to teach each camper how to ride and care for their horse in a safe and supportive environment.
Our small camp size, excellent staff, programs, facilities and schooled horses all combine to provide an unparalleled camp and riding experience which is every young rider’s dream.
Campers receive two full English Riding lessons daily as well as a recreational swim. Campers can choose a daily instructional swim option instead of a daily recreational swim (additional fee applies). Campers will receive swim instruction by our qualified swim staff.
Enrolment is on a two week basis. At the end of the two week program a horse show is organized for the campers to show their parents all of their new riding skills.
This program is a half day horseback riding option for children completing grade 1 or higher. In this half day program, campers will be assigned to a cabin group at Green Acres, spend half their day participating in traditional camp activities and the other half of the day with the horses.
In the Saddle Champs program, campers spend approximately one hour in an English riding lesson and approximately one hour learning about stable management (i.e. horse care, feeding, preparing horses for shows).
Enrolment is on a two week basis. At the end of the two week program a horse show is organized for the campers to show their parents all of their new riding skills.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
For campers completing Grades 8 and 9, the LTP program prepares teens for leadership roles both at camp and in their communities.
Green Acres LTPs will:
PARENT AND TOT
An opportunity for parents or caregivers and tots to play and discover together. The focus will be to develop the child’s social skills through swimming, arts & crafts, snack time, gymnastics, farm, circle games, cooking, beadmaking, ponies, sporting activities, play, music and songs. Swim is also taught daily by a qualified swim instructor. Every day is different so come as often as you like!
HALF DAY BUNNY PROGRAM (Ages 2 1/2 to 3 1/2)
This program is designed for our youngest campers who are not yet ready for a full day program.
For parents and campers, the first camp experience is going to be both exhilarating and a little apprehensive. Bunny counsellors are carefully chosen for their experience and nurturing and caring personality. In addition to a variety of age appropriate activities, Bunny campers also receive a daily instructional swim lesson. Bunny campers do not need to be toilet trained.
Campers depart camp after lunch at 1:15 p.m. Busing is available for most of Thornhill, Richmond Hill (South of Gamble Rd) and Markham. If you live outside these areas, please contact the camp office for further information.
MyCAMP & All-Star Combo Program
Are you having trouble deciding between MyCAMP and Sports Camp? Why not try our new MyCAMP & All-Star combination program. This program is being offered in Weeks 7, 8 or 9 for campers completing Grades 3 thru 7 this year.
Campers will spend their morning at MyCAMP participating in 3 activities of their choice from a list of over 20 different activities being offered each week. In the afternoon campers will move to All-Star and will get to choose 2 sports from a list of 11 sports available.
Optional Services
*Please contact the camp office or visit its website for further details (sessions / schedules, fees, registration, etc) or the latest updates.