Keep your kids safe and healthy in the summer with YMCA Summer Day Camp

Attended by more than 2,000 youth throughout the Mid-South area, YMCA Summer Day Camp is an affordable kids' vacation close to home! YMCA Summer Day Camp offers school age children (ages 5–12) a safe and exciting place where they can have fun, meet new friends and make memories to last a lifetime. YMCA Day Camp is designed to introduce participants to a wide range of activities, including swimming and water safety, recreational and sporting activities, crafts, field trips, and more. All camp programs emphasize the YMCA's core values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility and faith with camp staff and their fellow participants.

With the YMCA Open Doors Program and fee assistance programs, everyone can afford to keep their kids safe and healthy in the summer. For more information regarding Open Doors and financial assistance, contact Stacy Coughlin at 901.766.7677 #232 or scoughlin@ymcamemphis.org

YMCA Day Camp is the place to be in the summer!

• It's FUN!
• It's where you make new friends.
• It's a safe and caring environment.
• It's where you play games, stay active, and grow in spirit, mind and body.
• It's where you learn about fair play and develop new skills through cool, challenging activities.

Location/Hours

The Fayette County YMCA Summer Day Camp Program is held at Oakland Elementary School from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Activities

• Field trips
• Recreational swimming
• Arts and crafts
• Youth sports
• Indoor/outdoor group games
• Character development activities

More Info about YMCA Summer Day Camp

Summer Day Camp FAQ's

What if my child can't swim?

All campers must take a swim test before they are allowed to enter the pool. Non-swimmers must stay in the shallow end of the pool and wear red necklaces. Beginner/intermediate swimmers are given yellow necklaces and may go out further than the non-swimmers. Proficient swimmers wear green necklaces and are allowed in the deep end of the pool. This is recreational swimming only—NOT swim lessons. Counselors are in the water with the campers and along the edge of the pool for supervision. Lifeguards are also present.

What is your counselor to camper ratio?

It is a maximum of 1:20

What do campers need to bring/wear?

Campers need to wear comfortable clothes that they don't mind getting wet and/or dirty and tennis shoes. On field trip days, they must wear their field trip shirt. They need to bring a swim suit and towel on swim days, sunscreen daily, and a daily sack lunch that doesn't need heating or refrigerating (some branches have access to a free lunch program—check for availability). All items should be brought in the camp bag provided.

What if we go on vacation, do we still have to pay?

You only pay for the weeks actually attended.