Health Forms and Safety

Safety is our first priority, no matter what activity children are engaged in or where we are. In addition to having a certified Health Director on site, all of our Head and Associate Counselors are CPR and First Aid certified. We bring water, first aid supplies, an emergency contact list, cell phones and walkie talkies to all parks and field trips away from the LREI campus.

We strive to meet the needs of all children. If your child takes medication, is physically challenged, or has special health needs, please let us know when submitting registration and medical forms so that we can make plans to accommodate them in the most appropriate way possible.

Download the required forms here:

Camp Health Form

Camp Medication Form (Optional): If you would like for our Health Director to be able to administer over the counter or prescribed medication to your child during the camp day, please fill out and sign this form and email to [email protected] by June 1st*Please note that prescription medication requires a signature from your Health Care Provider.

Allergy Action Plan: If  your child has allergies that could require medication (EpiPen, or Benadryl, etc) please be sure to fill out the Allergy Action Plan form and email to [email protected] by June 1st.

If your child requires a SEIT this summer, download the SEIT Form and email it to [email protected] no later than May 15th, 2025.  We cannot accommodate SEITs without prior notice and receipt of form.  Please note that we only allow one SEIT per Homegroup and we reserve the right to place your child in a different Homegroup based on availability.

Download our SEIT form here: SEIT Form (PDF)

Please email all forms to [email protected], fax to 212-677-9159 or mail to:

Summers at LREI 
Attention: Health Forms
272 Sixth Avenue 
New York, NY 10014

Who we are

Campers

Children in Summers at LREI come from public and independent schools across the New York City area, as well as from other states and countries.

Roughly 90% of the children in our programs attend schools other than LREI during the year. Our goal is to create a safe environment where children can form new friendships and feel themselves to be part of a camp community. We welcome a diverse population, including children who are visiting the United States and those who have specific needs that we are equipped to accommodate.

Faculty

All teachers on the camp staff have experience with and a genuine love for working with children. Some are full-time teachers at LREI or other independent schools. Some are Associate teachers or teachers from the Afterschool program at LREI. Others are professional visual artists, actors, musicians, and dancers who have years of experience sharing their creativity with children. Nearly 80% of the Head Counselors in Little Red Summer Camp are returning teachers.

Lunch and Snack Menu

The Story of Our Food

At Summers at LREI we pride ourselves on providing nourishing, healthy, balanced meals to children.  We believe that what and how a child eats at camp directly impacts their experience during the camp day.   Our menu includes as many organic and locally-sourced items as possible.  Please note that we do not offer any fruits or vegetables on the “dirty dozen”* list unless they are organic.  We do not use any artificial colors or preservatives in our foods.

We know that many children are selective eaters, which is why we offer so many choices.  Whether it is daily par-baked baguettes with soy nut butter or organic jam, hard-boiled eggs, chickpeas, organic carrot and celery sticks, organic strawberries and melon, turkey slices, sliced cheese, and other rotating options.  In addition, children have numerous hot entree options, such as tacos with choice of filling, pasta with option of sauces, and hot sides such as steamed organic broccoli, organic collard greens, organic sweet plantains, etc.  Our variety of choices of food at camp, allow us to easily accommodate a wide variety of diets, including vegetarian and vegan.

“Dirty dozen” foods are considered the highest in pesticide residues when they are grown with conventional (non-organic) methods.  We will only offer these foods if they are organic:  peach, apple, bell pepper, celery, nectarine, strawberries, kale, lettuce, grapes (imported), carrot, pear.

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Rainbow Plate
Our Counselors guide children to include a wide variety of colors on their plate, thereby encouraging them to eat lots of fruits, vegetables, proteins, and grains.  This message is reinforced daily to campers during Morning Meeting as well as during lunch time.  

Snack
Snack is provided at specific times throughout the day and includes organic whole organic fruit– apples, bananas, grapes, peaches, raisins, in addition to organic applesauce (no added sugar), and carbohydrates– organic baked cheese crackers, organic popcorn and popcorners, pretzel rods, saltines, and cheerios.

Dessert
Dessert at camp? Hold the phone, we do not offer your average sugary concoction at camp!  In the afternoons, campers are offered a low sugar, locally-produced cool treat.  We serve Chloe’s small-sized fruit pops.  For more details about Chloe’s pops, click here.  

Nut and Seed Policy
Summers at LREI is a nut and seed aware institution.  We are proud to offer a safe environment for children with often life-threatening food allergies.  We ask that no outside nut or seed products are brought into the school or in bag lunches on Field Trips.  Please click  Nut_and_Seed-free_Lunch_Ideas for great nut and seed-free options.

 

 

2026 Dates to Remember

Summers at LREI 2026 dates are as follows:

Session 1: June 29th – July 10th (no camp July 3rd)
Session 2: July 13th – July 24th 
Session 3: July 27th – August 7th

Early Registration for returning families: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 12 pm – Friday, December 5, 2025 at midnight
General Registration for all families: Monday, February 2nd, 2026 at 12 pm
Choice Class Registration: April, 2026 

May 16th – SEIT Forms due (submit to [email protected]).

June 1st: Health Forms due (submit to [email protected]).

June 1st:  NO refunds after this date.

Musical Theater Workshop

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Musical Theater Workshop is offered to campers aged 9-13 for all three sessions:

Session 1: June 24th -July 5th (no camp July 4th)   
Session 2: July 8th -July 19th  
Session 3: July 22nd – August 2nd

Note that the sessions of this workshop are independent, and will focus on staging different shows.  Children are welcome to register for one or more sessions.

Musical Theater Workshop Program Description

The activities in this workshop are exclusively geared toward developing a live musical theater performance at every stage of production.  In addition to working on musical theater skills like singing, dancing, and creating stage characters, students will also have a chance to flex their creativity in devising the show’s script. Each session, students will begin by learning a range of classic and contemporary musical theater songs and then through creative writing prompts and improvisation games, create their own unique musical. A full blown production, with students creatively involved in every phase, is mounted in just nine days. The highlight of the camp – the performance – takes place on the final Friday of each session, followed by clean-up and celebration.  It is strongly recommended that campers are present for all days of their registered session(s).

Times and Location
Musical Theater Workshop meets Monday-Friday from 9:00am-4:00pm at the  Charlton Street Campus (40 Charlton Street). Performers will rehearse in several newly-renovated movement and voice studios.  Performances take place on the large state-of-the-art stage with dynamic lighting and live, professional piano accompaniment.

Musical Theater Workshop Performances:
Session 1: Friday, July 5th, afternoon time TBA
Session 2: Friday, July 19th, afternoon time TBA
Session 3: Friday, August 2nd, afternoon time TBA

A hot lunch is provided Monday-Thursday; we ask that campers bring a bag lunch on Fridays.

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Eight Ups Field Trips

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We take air-conditioned, chartered buses to age-appropriate locations for activities that are educational and lots of fun. Our priority is to take trips that give campers the opportunity to be in a natural setting or a museum worth exploring as a group. In order to maintain a very safe adult to camper ratio, Specialists accompany home groups as additional adults on field trips. Trips take place on Fridays.

On trips we maintain a 1 to 6 counselor to camper relationship. For this reason, we do not ask for parents or caregivers to accompany groups on trips.

Eight Ups Field Trip Schedule:

Session 1:
Week 1 (June 27th): Bronx Zoo
Week 2 (July 4th): *No Camp

Session 2:
Week 1 (July 11th): Brooklyn Bridge Park (Roller-Skating)
Week 2 (July 18th): Ferox Parkour

Session 3:
Week 1 (July 25th): Luna Park
Week 2 (August 1st): All Camp Celebration

 

Sixes / Sevens Field Trips

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All Homegroups take a field trip once a week. Trips take place on Fridays.

We take air-conditioned, chartered buses to age-appropriate locations for activities that are educational and lots of fun. Our priority is to take trips that give campers the opportunity to be in a natural setting or a museum worth exploring as a group. In order to maintain a very safe adult to camper ratio, Specialists accompany home groups as additional adults on field trips. For Sixes on trips we maintain a 1 to 4, to 1 to 5 counselor to camper relationship. For this reason, we do not ask for parents or caregivers to accompany groups on trips.

Sixes and Sevens Field Trip Schedule

Session 1:
Week 1 (June 27th): Alstede Farms
Week 2 (July 4th): *No Camp

Session 2:
Week 1 (July 11th): Brooklyn Bridge Park
Week 2 (July 18th): Ferox Parkour

Session 3:
Week 1 (July 25th): Luna Park
Week 2 (August 1st): All Camp Celebration