Timeline planner
When to Open Camp Registration: Timeline Planner
Parents shop camps months before you feel ready. This planner sets your post date, open date, price date and close date by working backward from theirs.
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What's inside
- When parents actually decide
- Work backward
- Early-bird design
- The calendar
- Announce it
- School-year variant
How to use this in 10 minutes
Go to the backward-planning worksheet (page 2). Write your first camp day in the top box, then fill each row down; every date is computed from the one above it. You’ll have your post, open, early-bird, and close dates in one pass. The rest of the planner explains why each date sits where it does.
At a glance
Arielle Hammond, Ed.D.
Former K-5 principal; runs youth enrichment at 75+ school sites. Founder of enrops.
How it was made
Built from the backward-planned season calendar Journey to STEAM uses. The November and December timing reflects what program owners reported in 2026 interviews, not a measured market statistic; check it against your own market.
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