Camp ¡Vámonos!

Camp Vamonos! has been run by me, Megan Baker, out of my home in north-central Austin for 15 years. Aside from being a home-grown local business, CV! is all about empowering children in a world that’s usually too busy to really listen to what they have to say and too in awe of “experts” to give them a say in what they do with their time or how they learn. By reading the work of folks like Peter Gray, John Holt and Carol Black, I learned that children’s play is the most powerful engine of learning in a young person’s life. When you know this and you watch children play, you can virtually see the wheels in their heads turning! Play is joyful for children not just because it’s fun for them but maybe especially because the learning they do while playing is so rich and confidence-building.

Here are some photos of my campers and after-school care kids playing cooperatively, helping younger kids, exploring their city, wondering what it would be like to have horns, and one photo of bagels we made in my kitchen, where we also create cakes, cookies, homemade ravioli, crepes, and loads of holiday treats.

Children have a genius for figuring out how their world works and for making friends out of strangers. At Camp Vamonos! kids are trusted to be sociable and enjoyable company, smart decision makers, and resourceful problem solvers. When you learn to follow rather than direct them, they will show you a very rich way of being in the world!

December 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 2023

January 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 2024

Hours are 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, and the cost is $45/day (parents provide food). Pick and choose your days. Camp Vamonos! is located in a private home in north-central Austin, not far from I-35, 183, and Mopac.

Camp Vamonos! now has a van, which we use to get to more off-the-beaten-path destinations, such as greenbelts and other nature spots, the Cathedral of Junk and other “weird” Austin must-see places. Camp Vamonos! is all about kids exploring their environment, getting fresh air, making decisions about their activities, and spending time with children of various ages, which brings out the caring side of older kids and promotes familiarity with where they’re going for the younger ones.

Come play with us over the winter break! Vamonos!

For more information or to enroll, call or text Megan at (512) 770-7789.

We’re two weeks into summer camp and we’re having fun! We’ve been to the splash pad, the Big Top Candy Shop, the Texas Union, Central Market, and downtown on the train. We’re making dot art, fabric mache, and perler bead treasures, and playing our favorite games, Mancala, Spot It!, and Uno. In the backyard we’re enjoying foosball, swinging on the rope swing, playing in the hammock, and climbing in and around the big “loose parts” I have back there. It’s low-key, low-tech, old-fashioned fun.

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Good Clean Fun

Here are a few of my after-school care boys having some STEM fun with the hammock. Learning is supposed to be fun, and at Camp Vamonos! it is.
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We’re having a lot of fun this summer so far! We’ve played in Shoal Creek twice after a nice rain, and could’ve kept playing all day but, alas, we had to get home.

We also went downtown with our restaurant tray to slide down the hill right outside the Capitol building. It’s a short but fun ride!

Last week we spent a few hours at the UT Underground, playing air hockey, pool and bowling. We wrapped up the outing with some quiet time playing board games, then caught the bus home, tired and happy.
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At the house, we’ve made bread sculptures, bread sticks, a birthday cake, and a general mess. A good time has been had by all, and there are four more weeks coming up!

If you didn’t get to play with us this summer, join us next year! It’s summertime like your grandparents might have known it…

Climbing around in the “fittings” in the backyard

The groceries we bought for a needy Brentwood Elementary family with the proceeds from our craft fair

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Making friends-human and otherwise–on our daily walk home from school

Making bagels. So fun and so easy!

We had a lot of fun this semester playing at the park, at the house, and on our “adventure walks” in between. I say “adventure” because that’s what it is when kids are be able to go somewhere at (more or less) their own pace, focusing on their own imaginative imperatives and play instead of on the adult shepherding them along. I call for them to pick up the pace if we need to be getting home, but otherwise I let them mosey along, allowing them to stop and smell the flowers (literally and figuratively), chat up the neighbors, or continue a game begun at the park.

This is not just free play–of which kids cannot get too much–it’s free play in movement from one place to another. This enables them to think on their feet, greeting the people they encounter (and the dogs!), noticing changes from previous days (like the construction on Justin Lane), and generally asking and answering their own questions: Should I climb in that recycling bin? Should I take that thing lying on someone’s curb? (I like to let them pick up freebies because it’s a thrill for them to snag free stuff–kids need to hear the word “Yes!” in such contexts more–but it’s also a great lesson in perserverance in getting such stuff home single-handedly or by talking a friend into helping. It’s a perk for me that I get to see every day what they consider to be treasures, a nice break from adult metrics.)

So the opportunity for free play offered by the Camp Vamonos! After-School Care program is nicely supplemented by the simple yet very rich walk home my kiddos get every day. If the adventures my sisters and I had on our mile walk from school to home in our elementary years are any indication, these walks will long be remembered by my young friends.

The bounty of our tiny baking session with Austin baker extraordinaire, Pascal Simon.

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Bungee chair grins.

Sharing a hug with Greta, the beautiful mascot of Camp Vamonos!

Camp Vamonos! After-School Care kids painting over graffiti in the neighborhood with Megan.

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This is Luggard, the elephant my after-school care kids and I adopted through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. We raised money by selling crafts and cookies we’d made at Arlan’s. Isn’t he beautiful?

We’re into our third week of camp, and we’re having fun! We went to City Hall the first week and to the Blanton Art Museum last week. Today we have a tour of Central Market and play time there, and on Thursday we will go to the turtle pond at UT, with a tour of the greenhouse also planned. I have gone into the greenhouse with my campers once before and it is a very cool place!

There are a number of spots still available this session for the weeks of June 27, July 4 and one spot just opened up for the week of July 11. Let me know if your children would like to play with us this summer by calling (512) 453-8382 or sending an e-mail to megarito@juno.com. Vamonos!

You can’t fight City Hall but you can play there!

Usually getting all these kiddos facing the same way is a pipe dream.

Hamming it up downtown.

Some of the beauty at the UT greenhouse.

And more…

Ooo. What are these exotic creatures?

One of my favorites at the greenhouse. Amazing leaves!

Two beautiful irises.

There’s something magical about turtles. This truly is a wonderful Austin spot.