Why Winter Break Camps Are Perfect For Young Athletes
Winter break camp offers many advantages for young athletes, including both physical and mental benefits. Kids need positive influences as they grow up, and sports camps can give them the tools they need for healthy physical, mental, and social development.
Many sports are off-season during winter break, but signing your child up for a sports camp during this time gives your child an opportunity to have fun, learn, and gain meaningful experiences. Consistently practicing a sport can help your child improve their skills and confidence.
Continue reading to learn more about how winter break camps can benefit young athletes and their parents, the importance of staying physically active, and explore what All Sports Kids in Tamarac can offer your child.
Benefits Of Winter Break Camps For Young Athletes
Winter break camps provide both general and sport-specific benefits to participants.
The general benefits of camps include:
- Socialization: Face-to-face peer interactions are more important for kids than ever before after missing out on this during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Winter camps allow kids to make new friends and improve their interpersonal skills.
- Health and exercise: Any break from school can sometimes turn into more TV watching or video game playing, enrolling your child in a winter break camp can give them a break away from the computer having fun and keeping them active.
- Learning opportunities: Camps give children opportunities to learn valuable life lessons such as problem-solving skills and teamwork.
Sport-specific skills your child can learn include:
- Baseball: Base-running, catching, fielding, hand-eye coordination, hitting, pitching, and throwing
- Basketball: Ball-handling, foul shots, jumping, passing, physical fitness, running, and shooting
- Cheer and gymnastics: Back handsprings, forward rolls, handstands, cartwheels, and round-offs
- Hockey: Dribbling, hit passes, leading, poking, push passes, shooting, and trapping
Importance Of Staying Physically Active
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that physical activity affects many aspects of a child’s body, mind, and their everyday life, such as their bones, brain, heart, lungs, muscles, and academic performance.
There is a wide range of health benefits of physical activity for children, including:
- Builds strong muscles and endurance
- Helps maintain cardio metabolic health and normal blood sugar levels
- Helps regulate body weight and reduce body fat
- Improves aerobic fitness and blood pressure
- Improves attention and memory
- Reduces risk of depression
- Reduces risk of several chronic diseases, including obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Strengthens bones
Children need to learn from a young age that exercise is vital for their health. Playing sports and games makes exercise fun and engaging and can make your child more likely to exercise regularly, which can improve their chance of living a healthy life.
A long-term study published in Pediatric Exercise Science in 2006 found that children who played organized competitive youth sports between the ages of 9 and 18 years old were five to six times more likely to be physically active in adulthood.
Winter Break At All Sports Kids
All Sports Kids in Tamarac is a state-of-the-art licensed childcare facility that offers a wide range of programs for children between the ages of 5 to 14 years old.
We offer a winter break camp for kids that runs from 7 AM to 7 PM and is designed to keep kids entertained and enriched during the holiday season.
All of our programs are run by an expert staff team of professional coaches, certified teachers, and experienced drivers, so you can be assured that your child will be in good hands while they are in our care.
Our newly renovated 11,000-square-foot facility has many amenities to offer your child, such as:
- Sports Arena with a full-size three-on-three basketball court where kids can play a variety of sports like baseball, basketball, football, hockey, kickball, and soccer
- Cheer Floor where kids can work on cheerleading skills, dance moves, tumbling practice, and other physical fitness activities
- Multipurpose Room where kids can take a break, do homework, read, and do structured activities that teach important life and home economics skills
- Arts and Crafts Room where kids can explore their creative side, develop fine motor skills, practice patience and concentration through art, and express themselves
- Cafeteria that provides free meals (or your child can bring snacks from home)
Call us at 954-746-5437 for more information about our:
We can even host your child’s next birthday party!
We also offer home drop-off transportation from All Sports Kids starting at $50 per week to make scheduling easier for families. Space is limited, so enroll your child now.