Events at Camp Anglewood

Special Events & Special Days

Color War
During the 6th or 7th week, camp is divided into two teams which compete in various events within the Lower, Middle, and Upper Camp groups. Tuesday and Wednesday include contests between the Blue Team and the Grey Team in the traditional Anglewood activities including baseball, dodgeball, newcomb, boat races, and various swimming challenges.

The event ends on Thursday with the morning upper field events (shot put, sack races, line races, and tug-of-war), mid-day Anglecross relay races and a talent show to finish Color War. Watch the Button Factory!


Color War	Anglecross Relay Races	Button Factory

Special Events Week

Color War has been so successful at Anglewood that we wanted to begin a second such annual event of a similar nature. This would give our campers two "Color War"-like events to enjoy. Also, this allows those campers who are not in camp during Color War to participate in such an event. The 2008 season was the first year for a second big week event.

Since it was an Olympic year, campers participated in the Anglewood Olympics during the third week of camp. Campers and staff managed to keep the Olympic torch burning from the opening ceremony to the closing ceremony. Events included the long jump, stork stand, biathlon, "worming", sprints, archery and diving (biggest splash) contest.

In 2009, Anglewood held the "Liberty Bell Classic" during the third week of the summer to balance the Color War event scheduled for the sixth week.

The Cheesesteaks, Hoagies, Tastykakes, and Soft Pretzels teams competed in various Philly related events. This special event may change each year and /or rotate between current theme events (like the Olympics) and the "Liberty Bell Classic". Possible themes to be explored in the future include College Wars, Carnival, Anglewood Idol, and Anglewood Survivor.

Friday Games Day
Every Friday is special at Anglewood. On Friday, everyone wears their Anglewood shirts and other Anglewood clothing to earn special points for their Friday Games Day Teams. All of the groups within each camp (Lower, Middle, and Upper) join together to participate in Friday Games Day. Special teams are created at the beginning of the season. These teams compete each Friday in special large group games including, dodgeball, baseball, waterpolo, newcomb, and "duck-duck-goose". The highlight of each Friday is an extended period of Capture-the-Flag. Prizes and special treats bring the week to a close.

Special Activities Day takes place during the last week of regular camp. Included are memorable scenes from the pie eating and bubble gum blowing contests. Also included are Watermelon wars in the pool.

Crazy Hat Day allows each camper to bring in his favorite head gear. Anglewood has seen everything from perfect Cat-In-The-Hats to backwards Philly rally caps.

Red, White, & Blue Day is always the day before the 4th of July. The camper with the best patriotic costume in each group wins a prize.

Water Day is probably the most anticipated special day of the summer season. A hot day is targeted for Water day and its activities keep everyone "cool". Only on this day are campers allowed to bring in their smallest or biggest water squirters and super soakers for use on the upper court and in the pool. Camp provides the water balloons for the balloon toss games. The staff shows off the powerful water balloon launcher with demonstration moon shots over the island into the lake.

Backwards Day is a simple fun day when Anglewood goes backwards. Taps starts backwards day. Free period, which is usually at the end of the day, is now the first period. Reveille ends the day. The daily schedule is often typed backwards for all to try to decipher. Campers have been known to walk backwards during the day as long as they can.

Weekly Tournaments
Each week, Anglewood hosts a tournament for all campers. Participation is optional and left up to the individual camper. The most popular has been the Ping Pong Tournament, though the Dodgeball tournament which seeks to promote upper campers teaming with younger campers on special teams has shown growing enthusiasm.

Seedings are developed based on casual games earlier in the season and performance in prior years. Then the competition develops just like March Madness, often with the same excitement.

Other popular tournaments include the Home Run Derby and Fishing Derby as well as the Basketball, Foul Shot, and Archery Tournaments.

As demand from campers can change from year to year, there can be all kinds of ad hoc tournaments. Some past contests include dam building, home made boat races, bridge building, and gockey.

The most unique tournament was probably the Gymp Show offering stitch category winners and a "best-in-show" champion!

Week 9
The 2010 Season saw the introduction of "Week 9", an extra week for those who wished to extend their summer camping fun. It became an immediate "hit" and will be offered again this coming season. Week 9 includes a special mix of Camp Anglewood activities chosen by the campers and staff. It is during this week that we schedule more of Capture-the-flag, bar-b-que and the other favorite camper activities from the regular summer program. Because this week jumps directly into special activity scheduling, campers need to be already familiar with the Camp Anglewood scene. Therefore, Week 9 is open only to those campers already attending at least one week during the regular camp program.