At Camp Mini-Yo-We, we’re all about creating memorable experiences and opportunities for personal growth. As parents think ahead to Summer 2025, we want you to understand the different ways you can customize your camper’s experience.
Let’s break it down!
Activities: Essential Adventures
Central to every camper’s experience is our Core 10 activities. These are essential adventures that every camper enjoys during their week at Camp! They rotate between these 10 activities with their cabin mates over the course of the week so they can experience everything Mini-Yo-We has to offer. Check out our activities webpage!
Instructions: Level Up Your Afternoon
In addition to their Core 10 activities, campers at Boys Camp and Girls Camp will select a daily Afternoon Choice Activity (ACA), which gives them the opportunity to customize their afternoon. They can go back for more of the Core 10 or try new adventures like pickleball, disc golf, pedal go-karts, and more.
Instructions are a premium add-on experience that allow campers ages 10-15 to dive deeper into a specific skill or interest during the Afternoon Choice Activities time period. Campers will do the same instruction all five days during the week in a dedicated two-hour instruction period. Before the summer begins, parents can purchase these options to enhance their campers’ experiences. You can add them during registration or later on by logging in to your CampBrain account. Learn more on our instructions webpage!
Summer 2025 instructions include:
- Wakeboarding: Come alive with the wakeboarding instruction at Camp Mini-Yo-We. Suitable for all skill levels. Spend your two-hour afternoon instruction period gliding across beautiful Mary Lake with expert instructors from Muskoka Wake, plus take home a customized ball cap to commemorate your experience.
- Sailing: Experience the thrill of sailing every day on Mary Lake! Spend your two-hour afternoon instruction period learning how to sail and having fun out on the water. Take home a customized cap to commemorate the experience.
- Theatre Arts: Step into the spotlight through Camp Mini-Yo-We’s theatre arts instruction. In partnership with The S.P.A.C.E., campers will rehearse and perform, bringing their creativity to life. They’ll design backdrops, create props, and take home a cast t-shirt to remember the experience!
- Nature Science (NEW): Explore the beautiful Muskoka wilderness while learning the science behind how things work! We intend to cover topics like outdoor orientation with a compass, tree tapping to make maple syrup and more. You will also receive a custom keepsake as a special reminder of your time at Camp!
Note that we started the year with instructions offered specifically to boys and girls on different weeks. As of March 1, we have changed this to allow boys and girls to sign up for instructions every week it is offered during the summer.
Ready to embark on an adventure?
Got questions? Reach out to our team at 705-385-2629 or email info@miniyowe.com.
Camper Fun Packs: Level Up Your Mail
Mail time is always an exciting part of the day for our campers! We love seeing their faces as their name is called out and they receive a letter from home, a package that was left at the office to be delivered during the week, or a message from another camper in our inter-camp mail system. It’s a core part of the traditional Camp experience. We love mail so much, we even provide camper parents with three mail labels per camper so they can leave mail with us during check-in to be delivered on different days of the week.
In Summer 2024, we tried something new called Camper Fun Packs and they were a hit! Hundreds of packages were purchased by parents as a way to level up what was delivered to their camper. Camper Fun Packs are delivered midweek and provide an amazing boost to a child’s experience. Packages include fun treats, gifts and experiences such as:
- Stickers
- Candy
- Activity Booklet
- Crayons
- Cabin Activity
- Boost Your Experience Card, which unlocks a unique experience that only a handful of campers will get during the week! It may be “laking” a leader, getting a photo with a theme character, having dinner with the director or something else entirely. It’s a surprise!
Want to purchase a Fun Pack for your camper?
Camper Photo Packages: Level Up Your Memories
One of the things our Customer Care Team hears all the time from parents is that they wish they had more photos of their child at Mini-Yo-We! We totally get it and love the hard work our Promotion team puts into capturing campers in action for parents to see. Even with hundreds of photos posted each day, we know there are some parents who want even MORE! New for Summer 2025 is the Camper Photo Package.
The Camper Photo Package guarantees great pictures of your child enjoying their summer camp experience! Here are the details:
- 10 high-quality photos of your camper
- High resolution digital photos with no watermark
- Photos shared with you over email within 48 hours your camper arriving home
Want to purchase a Photo Package for your camper?
Limited Edition T-Shirt: Level Up Your Swag
This year we are changing things up with our limited edition t-shirts!
Early bird campers that registered before labour day weekend are automatically going to receive their limited edition t-shirts in their Fresh Fun Pack mailing this spring. For families that missed that deadline, we have good news! You can purchase the limited edition t-shirt for $30.00 anytime before April 1. These t-shirts will be mailed to campers in May before arriving at Camp increasing the excitement and anticipation.