Families can learn skills to enjoy outdoor adventures together beginning Saturday, June 23, when Family Summer Camp starts at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's locations across the country. Weekly workshops will continue through Sunday, July 22.
During Family Summer Camp, free workshops will be conducted by store experts from noon to 3 p.m. every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. The whole family can learn the basics of camping, fishing, shooting and archery. Other workshops include water sports, emergency preparedness and how to become a young conservationist.
WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE
JUNE 23 - JULY 22ThursdaysNoon. Fishing 101: Fly fishing and more1 p.m. Young Conservationist: Tread lightly2 p.m. Water Sports Basics: Canoes, kayaks and more3 p.m. Emergency Preparedness: Learn to prepare aheadSaturdaysNoon. Fishing 101: Freshwater/Saltwater1 p.m. Shooting Sports: Educational information and safety2 p.m. Young Conservationist: Tread lightly3 p.m. Campfire basics: Fire safetySundaysNoon. Emergency Preparedness: Learn to prepare ahead1 p.m. Water Sports Basics: Canoes, kayaks and more2 p.m. Shooting Sports: Educational information and safety3 p.m. Campfire basics: Fire safety
All workshops last approximately 20 minutes, and kids will get a free lanyard and earn a collectible pin for every workshop completed. Kids who finish all six workshops will receive a completion pin (while supplies last).
Family Summer Camp also offers free craft activities such as creating an owl windsock, coloring an apron, painting a deer track, constructing a canoe frame and making a raccoon canoe magnet. A different craft activity will be featured each week on workshop days between noon and 2 p.m. (while supplies last).
Free hands-on activities offered in the stores will include a casting buckets challenge, archery shooting arcade and Daisy BB gun range. A catch-and-release pond will be offered Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1, from noon to 4 p.m.
Participating local stores are Bass Pro Shops, 1000 Bass Pro Drive in East Ridge, and Cabela's, 350 Cobb Parkway in Ringgold, Georgia.
For more information and details: www.basspro.com/summercamp.