BRIGHTON KOA Calendar of Events 2017

April 28 to April 30 – CARE TO KAMP WEEKEND

We were so amazed at the generosity of our campers in the 2016 season that we’ve decided to

contribute even more for 2017 by adding an additional Care Camps weekend just for the Brighton

KOA location. Come camping with us on opening weekend where you pay for Friday night and get

Saturday night for a minimum donation of $10 to care camps – Must have a valid Value Kard to

qualify for the discount. Not only will you enjoy the excitement of our first weekend of the season,

with all it has to offer - games, wagon rides, movie night, ice cream social, and a morning craft of

potting your own flowers to take home and celebrate the Spring season, BUT it’s also the GRAND

OPENING OF FRYDAY – Sabrina’s Chip wagon – come try the delicious fares and offer

congratulations to our newest Entrepreneur. Our Collect-A-Ducky contest also begins this

weekend – see website for full details as they are a little different this year. Leave your Rig

starts this weekend as well. Camp two consecutive weekends in a row and leave your rig

parked on site and plugged in for $20 per week.

May 5 to 7 – EASTER WEEKEND

Easter is such a treasured holiday for me, so we decided to theme this weekend after Easter so that

we can enjoy all the fun… again. Come enjoy colouring eggs in the morning for our craft time. And

an Easter themed weekend just wouldn’t be right without a full group Easter egg hunt. We will also

have some fun Easter themed games like an egg and spoon race. We will round out the weekend

with wagon rides, movie night, ice cream social and all the usual fun and games. It may be early in

the camping season but we promise to make it a weekend full of fun for the whole family. This is a

Leave Your Rig weekend.

May 12 to 14 – CARE CAMPS “MOTHERS DAY” BIG WEEKEND

What a great way to celebrate Mom, or as my mother says, Mum, than to save BIG on your

camping and donate to a worthy cause. This is the nationally celebrated Care Camps

weekend that most KOA’s participate in. Come camping with us on Friday night and for a

minimum $10 donation to Care Camps you get Saturday night included. We have a superb

weekend planned for families. We have wagon rides, movie night, craft time (cards for mom of

course), picture find/scavenger hunt games, Ice Cream social as usual. We also have a

special treat planned just for the ladies. All the kids are invited to a cooking class ($5 entry per

child) where they will actually prepare a wonderful meal, including learning how to set the

table, and then host a fabulous meal for mom or grandma (dad’s welcome to the class or if you

are comfortable you can leave your child with us for the class and enjoy some alone time

together). Finish the weekend off with a scrumptious pancake breakfast to be served on

Sunday morning for $5 per person, with proceeds going to Care Camps. We will have the

pool open and heated for this weekend. This is a Leave Your Rig Weekend.

May 19 to 22 – HOUSE OF CARDS WEEKEND (Victoria Long Weekend) We’re gonna have a blast this weekend with tons of different card games and tournaments.

We’ll have something for all ages: go fish, black jack, poker, euchre, and more. All the usual

crafts, games, and wagon rides will still be on as well. We’ll close the weekend with a firework

display to round out this amazing May 24. This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

May 26 to 28 – COUNTRY WEEKEND This weekend is all about the cowboys and cowgirls. Put on your cowboy hats and pull up

your boots as we do bull riding, lasso contests, and more. We’ll have our regular activities

follow the country theme as well with a country craft and movie. Y’all don’t wanna miss this.

This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

June 2 to 4 – BEACH PARTY WEEKEND

We will have a sand castle making contest, beach

volleyball and yummy summer Pina Coladas or Daiquiris

will be served (suitable for all ages – for a $ donation to

Care Camps). We’ll have games around the pool like

diving for rings and beach ball races and of course all the

regular activities, wagon rides, crafts, scavenger

hunts/games, ice cream social, and movie night. This is

a Leave Your Rig weekend.

June 9 to 11 – PIRATES AND PRINCESSES WEEKEND Enjoy all the fun and magic of playing pretend. We will have a

treasure hunt where our “pirates” will have to follow the map to

where X marks the spot and find the hidden treasure.

Organized activities for all the kids to play like Pin the Kiss on

the Frog, and Pass the Wand. Don’t forget to take a ride on

the pirate ship wagon ride and sail for new lands. Movie night

and playing in our pirate ship playground will round out the

perfect weekend. This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

June 16 to 18 – FATHERS’/ST PATRICK’S DAY WEEKEND A whole weekend about barbecue and green beer? There will be a barbecue

of hamburgers and hot dogs and green beer or juice depending on your

age!!! Fathers’ can get their hamburgers or hotdogs for free. The kids will

enjoy searching for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow as well as a St.

Patrick’s themed craft. All of our usually scheduled activities such as movie

night and wagon rides will be going on as well. This is a Leave Your Rig

weekend.

June 23 to 25 – SCHOOL’S OUT WEEKEND We’ve decided to do a flashback to the 70’s themed weekend. Hippies,

tie dye, and good old classic rock. We will make tie dyed t-shirts and

play 70’s themed games. All the usual fun stuff to do, like craft time and

scavenger hunts will round out this weekend as the best Schools Out

party ever – AND WE WILL HAVE A BAND AGAIN THIS YEAR. And

pancake breakfast on the Sunday for $5 – simply because School’s

OUT for Summer well and as usual, to raise money for Care Camps!!!!

Last weekend of Leave Your Rig.

June 30 to July 3 - CANADA DAY/FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND

This week is a big party. We’re going to have a Digital

Scavenger Hunt to help you all commemorate a great week.

BRING YOUR CAMERAS AND SMART PHONES – This is a

family competition. First family to complete it wins a prize.

Fireworks will help us celebrate with a Bang. Sign up early for

our chess and checkers tournaments and our horseshoe

tournaments. To add to the fun we will create our own rockets and launch them off and

see whose can go the highest. Other games, crafts, wagon rides, movie nights and ice

cream socials all make this an amazing week.

July 7 to 9 - SUMMER OLYMPICS WEEKEND

This is the third annual Olympics on Saturday the 8th – potato sack races, water

balloon tosses, and returning from last year the super popular inflatable obstacle

course - $5 per person for unlimited access to the obstacle course – the other

Olympic activities are included in the camping fee. We’ll also be having a pancake

breakfast on Sunday for $5 per person to feed all the hungry athletes and to raise

money for Care Camps. Our regular events will also be happening all week long to

keep the family entertained.

July 14 to 16 – CARTOON WEEKEND

Don’t be surprised to see random visits all weekend from fun Cartoon Characters. Come with tshirts or

fully dressed as your favourite cartoon character. We will have lots of games for all our costumed

campers to play. We’ll make our own comics at craft time, photo ops, and awesome cartoon movies

running throughout the week. All the regular events will be going on as well. July 16th also happens to

be my birthday (Jackie) so YAY – come have a super happy super funny cartoony birthday with me!!!

July 21 to 23 - CHRISTMAS IN JULY WEEKEND

Decorate your site – cabin, trailer or tent site. We will

have a later wagon ride this weekend to view all the

lights so please decorate - we wanna see the lights

people!!!! We will have Find the Elf on the Shelf

throughout the week as a unique kind of scavenger

hunt. A secret santa present exchange will have all the kids happy. PLEASE BRING A PRESENT

SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUR CHILD WRAPPED WITH THEIR NAME ON IT TO EXCHANGE ON

SATURDAY – Make it a secret so each child gets something their parents know they want.

Christmas themed crafts will make everyone happy because we will be decorating Christmas

Cookies. To round out the week we will continue our fun activities and events with themed

crafts and movie nights and wagon rides etc.

July 28 to 31 – CHOCOLATE WEEKEND

We will have a chocolate scavenger hunt – early in the

morning so they don’t melt in the sun! We will have a

slip and slide running throughout the week. Come

enjoy a chocolate fountain throughout the

weekend!!!! Enjoy iced hot chocolate during movie

nights. Sunday morning tops up our amazing

decadent weekend with chocolate chip pancake

breakfast for $5 per person to raise money for Care

Camps.

August 4 to 6 – WET AND WILD LONG WEEKEND

We will be bringing out the slip ‘n’ slide for 2 days. The wagon

will be loaded with water fun – a huge water gun fight with

water guns on the wagon and water guns on the ground.

Bring your own guns or water bottles (OR HOSES). Biggest

splash contest will be loads of fun – soaking more than just

those jumping into the water. We’ll top all that off with

fireworks

August 11 to 13 – SUPERHERO/ VILLAIN WEEKEND

We will all be joining in the fun – dress up as your

favourite super hero or super villain. Play our

defeat your villain game - everyone gets to pick a

super hero card and then they have to adventure

around the campground until they find the villain

card that matches their super hero. When you find it, come tell us where you found it

for a prize! And a digital Bingo game – everyone gets a bingo card with pictures of super heroes on it. The people who

get a line complete, by bringing in pictures of themselves with those super heroes, win a prize.

August 18 to 21 – KID AT HEART WEEKEND

So, this weekend is all dedicated to just being a kid. We’ll have a

balloon artist who will make balloon art – animals or swords etc. We

are planning face painting again. An inflatable obstacle course:

suitable for ALL ages. Lots of games, crafts and other fun things to do

all weekend long. Please note, the face painter will have their own

charge probably and the inflatable obstacle course is rented so there

is a $5 per person charge for unlimited turns. To top it off, a pancake breakfast on Sunday morning

for $5 per person to raise money for Care Camps.

August 25 to 27 - CORN ROAST WEEKEND

Come enjoy some amazing corn on the cob on us. Lather it with

butter and salt and eat it right on the spot, dripping all down your

face, or take a plate of it back to your campsite to enjoy with your

steaks and baked potatoes. We will have a corn themed scavenger

hunt and enjoy some yummy popcorn during movie night. All the

regular games and activities as usual as well.

September 1 to 4 - LABOUR DAY HI LO WEEKEND

We have rockets for the kids. They get to

decorate and improve their own rocket and we

will have a rocket launching time to see whose

rocket can get the highest. We will have a limbo

contest to see who can go the lowest. A fireworks

display will go up high in the sky. We’ll be having the

giant soccer game return this weekend as well which

was a huge hit with the kids. This is a Leave Your Rig

weekend.

September 8 to 10 - WINE TASTING WEEKEND

With so many wineries in the area, many people come and stay here and

then go take a tour of all the wineries. Well, we wanted to add to the fun

by having our very own wine tasting right at the campground. Feel free

to visit some of the other wineries during the day and then enjoy some

local wine at a tasting back at the KOA at night. We will still be running

lots of games and activities for the kids this year! Including bringing the

inflatable obstacle course back so please don’t think this is an adults

only weekend! This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

September 15 to 17 - VALUE KARD WEEKEND

This is one of my favourite weekends. It’s where we get to reward all of the

Value Kard holders with a free night of camping. If you are a valid Value Kard

holder and you come camping on Friday night, then Saturday night is on us.

Even if you’ve never had a value kard before, we encourage you to buy one and

join in the fun and free camping of this weekend. We will have lots of games

and activities going on as well and a $5 per person pancake breakfast on Sunday

morning to raise money for Care Camps. This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

September 22 to 24 – APPLEFEST WEEKEND

This is a very popular weekend in this region as Applefest is very well

known and a big deal in Brighton. To add to the fun, we will have apple

bobbing set up for anyone who wants to test their skills. Craft time will be

making caramel apples. Expect all the usual activities and games as well.

This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

September 29 to October 1 – OKTOBERFEST WEEKEND

What better way to celebrate this amazing fall month

and the very near end of camping with an Oktoberfest

party? Sausages, Sauerkraut, and beer are the yummy

fare on the menu for Saturday night. We’ve got some

fun Oktoberfest games planned and all the usual fun

and games and activities we usually host. This is a

Leave Your Rig weekend.

October 6 to 9 - THANKSGIVING LONG WEEKEND

This is an amazing weekend to remember all the

things we have to be thankful for. Honestly, what

better thing to be thankful for than spending time

with family and eating Turkey!!! We have lots of fun

events planned for this Thanksgiving Long Weekend:

pumpkin bowling, pumpkin ring tossing, crafts,

scavenger hunts/games, wagon rides, movie night,

and the ultimate catered turkey dinner with all the

fixings. This is a Leave Your Rig weekend.

October 13 to 15 – HALLOWEEN WEEKEND

This is our final weekend for the season. We are excited to celebrate an early Halloween. We will have pumpkin

carving, decorating your site, and trick or treating in full costume. Bring your decorations, but please keep them age

appropriate. We have a lot of younger kids at our campground so nothing too scary please. Bring your costumes and

please remember to also bring candy to hand out to all the trick or treaters. We’ll be doing another late night scary

event this year which I know will be a HUGE hit again because we scared so many of you in 2016 – it was so Fun. This is

the weekend we will be tallying up our collectable duckies. (Please see contest rules as they have changed this

year).