WE're offering a 1-week spring break camp!
Is your child looking for ways to learn about animals during Spring Break? We're offering a unique 1-week camp experience during Spring Break for kids in grades 2nd through 5th! Students can sign up for the whole week or individual days for the topics that interest them the most. See dates, schedule, and registration cost below.
Registration Currently Closed!
Before registering for our Spring Break Camp, please carefully read the description below to make sure it is a good fit for your child.
We offer camp experiences for students in 2nd through 5th grades, giving attendees the opportunity to learn about animal welfare and care in their community. Camp will run Monday through Friday (March 22 - March 26) from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Campers should bring a lunch for their camp experience.
More About AWLA’s Spring Break Camp
The AWLA Spring Break Camp provides students with a fun and educational experience, allowing them to interact with adoptable shelter animals, learn from staff, and participate in animal-themed arts and crafts activities. Camp Counselors include staff members and adult and teenage volunteers.
If your child loves arts and crafts, they will be sure to enjoy our camp! We have several different crafts scheduled for the week, including Pet Portrait painting, enrichment preparation (treats tubes, snuffle mats, busy bags), coloring, decorating cat carriers and bandanas, and making animal-themed headbands. Other activities will include pet trivia, guess-that-animal, silly animal videos and shelter scavenger hunts.
Spring Break campers also play a big role in helping our animals get adopted! They help by socializing animals and creating eye-catching adoption posters to hang in the shelter to inspire shelter visitors to adopt. They also help make the animals’ daily lives enjoyable and stress-free by creating toys and treats, helping Animal Care clean the small animals’ kennels, and providing them with exercise and outdoor time.
If your child hopes to work in a shelter one day, they will have the amazing opportunity to hear from staff guest speakers from the Veterinary, Foster, Animal Services, and Behavior departments. They will gain hands-on experience through activities such as clicker training and handling surgical tools. They will even get to tour our fully equipped surgical van! They will leave camp with a clear understanding of what working in the field is like and go on to share this information with their peers to create a generation of educated and compassionate animal owners!
We can’t wait to have your child at the shelter during their Spring Break!
Spring Break Camp registration offers campers the opportunity to participate for the whole week or an individual day to enjoy the theme(s) that interest them the most. Email youthprograms@
Scholarships
Scholarships are available. Email youthprograms@AlexandriaAnimals.org for more information.
REFUND POLICY
No refunds will be issued.
Questions? Please email youthprograms@AlexandriaAnimals.org.
Dates:
March 22 - March 26
(each day 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.)
Daily topics:
You can register for individual days or the whole week. Find a daily schedule here.
Registration Cost:
Full-Week - $400
Individual Days - $100 a day
AWLA Spring Break camp Rules
Directions given by camp staff and volunteers must be followed.
Campers must stay with the group at all times.
Campers must be respectful and kind to fellow campers, counselors and animals.
When walking through the shelter, campers must be very quiet, stay in a straight line, and not put their hands through the kennel bars.
Campers must only interact with Camp-Approved animals.
We ask that campers participate in the scheduled activities.
Campers must make sure a counselor is aware before they go to the bathroom, get water, or enter any other area of the shelter.
Click to read: SPRING BREAK CAMP BEHAVIOR POLICY
“AWLA’s camp was terrific — my camper was so engaged and excited to be there every day. He loved being around the animals and really personalized his interactions with them. Every day when camp adjourned, he talked enthusiastically about the activities he had done that day — it was clear he was learning a lot and that it was an enriching experience."