Recreational Programs
It is camp after all
We’re as serious about recreational fun as we are music.
The fun never stops!
If your camper is not playing music, you can bet they’re having a blast enjoying our recreational offerings! Camp Encore/Coda is proud to offer many sports classes, we have an incredible waterfront, and we keep our campers energized and entertained through our evening activities program.
There’s so much more to Encore/Coda
beyond just great music
Arts & Crafts
If all of our music programs still aren’t enough for your creative side, come to Arts and Crafts! The art room is always busy with campers drawing, painting, beading, making 3-D art projects, jewelry, and lots and lots of friendship bracelets! Many campers find this activity to be a relaxing and enjoyable complement to the intensity of their music studies at camp. Campers’ finished art is displayed throughout camp, in the dining hall, main concert hall and several studios.
The Arts and Crafts room is also home to our Creative Writing class. We frequently feature their poems in our Parents Day Program, and they occasionally collaborate with story-telling and music in concerts!
Sports
We offer Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, Waterpolo, and Tennis as classes. Campers can enter as beginners, experts, or anywhere in-between!
Our Lower Campers have a sports hour every day! The content changes daily but is always packed with high-energy fun.
During free time and in-between classes you’ll always find our Ping-Pong tables occupied, and we frequently have camp wide tournaments!
Are you a runner? Running club meets before breakfast, so if you can wake up early enough you can get in those miles!
Waterfront
Campers enjoy waterfront activities at our 300-foot sandy beach that faces west, across Stearns Pond, into the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire. Lower and Upper campers have required and optional periods that can be filled with kayaking, stand-up paddle-boarding, fitness swimming, waterpolo, and general free swim/beach time.
Our beautiful waterfront is one of the most distinctive aspects of our camp. It provides endless hours of water fun and is the site of our weekly campfires. And we can’t forget the sunsets: our sunsets are famously beautiful!
More about our various waterfront programs
Waterfront Program by Age group
Instructional Swim
Lower Campers have a scheduled daily instructional swim period. Our certified lifeguards are trained to develop the basic swimming strokes to develop fluency in the water.
Recreational Waterfront Time
In addition to the swim lessons, there is a free swim period that many lower campers choose to participate in. While supervised by lifeguards, the kids get to play games like waterpolo, float on noodles, and have fun with friends and cool off in Stearns Pond.
Boating
Once the campers are trained on how to properly operate SUPs (stand-up paddle boards) , kayaks and canoes, they can take a Boating Test to get cleared to use these watercrafts to move about as they wish during free or optional periods at the waterfront.
Swim Class
Upper Campers have a choice to opt into either an instructional swim or a “Swim to Stay Fit” class which is a hybrid of an instructional swim period and an exercise class. The kids love the playful nature of “instructional” time. Our certified lifeguards make sure the campers are moving well and staying safe.
Recreational Waterfront Time
In addition to the “Swim to Stay Fit” and optional instruction, there is a free swim period that many upper campers choose to participate in. While supervised by lifeguards, they get to play games like waterpolo, float on noodles, and have fun with friends and cool off in Stearns Pond.
Boating
The majority of upper campers set the goal of passing the boating test so that they can properly operate SUPs, kayaks and canoes. Upper campers love to use these watercraft to move about the water freely and especially to change and hang with their friends on the lake.
CITs at the Waterfront
For Campers in Transition (CITs) our the goal is for them to still be campers and have fun at camp while training them to transition to becoming staff members. While at the waterfront, the CITs get a perfect mix of privilege and responsibility.
Free Periods at the Waterfront
Throughout the week CITs have the option to use their free time to come to the lake. When there, they have the option to join a “Swim to Stay Fit” class like the Upper Campers, learn to use watercraft or even train to become lifeguards.
Training to Become a Lifeguard
Our American Red Cross Certified Lifeguard Instructor is able to work with CITs to help them earn the valuable Certified Lifeguard card which many CITs then use to find employment back home and use to become lifeguards at camp for the subsequent summer!
Evening Activities
Each week Encore/Coda has 2 camper concerts and 1 staff concert for our evening activity. All other nights are filled with a rotating schedule of fun, silly, competitive and collaborative evening activities.
Evening activities include…
Camper Concerts!
Counselor Hunt
Challenge Night
Dances
Campfires
Scavenger Hunts
Cabin Night
Trivia Night
Name that Tune
Clue
Carnival Night
Staff Concerts!
Rhino Night (our famous lip-syncing competition!)
FunDays
Every week at Encore/Coda campers experience a FunDay!
These days give campers a chance to relax and to go all out in camp-wide games such as Capture the Flag! Some of our best evening activities, such as Rhino Nite, happens on FunDays.
Typical FunDay Schedule
- Evening Activity (like Rhino Nite!!)
- Sleep-In! Breakfast is an hour later on these days.
- Cabin Cleanup
- Morning: Activity Rotations–including 1 hour of practice!
- Lunch
- All Camp Rest Hour
- Camp-Wide Games (like Capture the Flag)
- Sweet Treat Social!
- Free time/Activity Time
- Dinner
TripDays
Each session campers go on 1 – 2 trips outside of camp!
These days give campers a chance to relax and visit sites in the beautiful surrounding area! During Trip Day campers are also given their phones to make calls home.
Trip might include…
Outing to a local lake
Hiking
Bowling
Movies
Seadogs Games
Beach Games
Swimming
Relaxation
Fun Snacks!
Phone Time
Typical TripDay Schedule
- Sleep-In! Breakfast is an hour later on these days.
- Cabin Cleanup
- Load the Busses
- Arrive at destination
- Lunch
- Phone time to Call Home
- Sweet Treats
- Return to Camp
- Dinner
- Evening Activity