Dina DiBlasio and Jazmine Manning jumped on a bouncy castle, slid on a waterslide and ate hamburgers made by their counselors at their end-of-camp celebration at Marvin Elementary School on Wednesday.
"I did a lot of fun things; my favorite was dodge ball," said Dina, a fifth-grader at Columbus Elementary School who was attending the camp for the second year. "I have a lot of friends here, old and new."
For Jazmine, a fifth-grader at Naramake Elementary School, the counselors made the camp special. "They act like kids, they're really fun," she said.
More than 220 kids in kindergarten through eighth grade attended the Play and Learn camp, a six-week summer camp at Marvin sponsored by the Norwalk Parks and Recreation Department. In addition to gym and art activities, the kids took field trips to My Three Sons, a local arcade, bowling and the beach, which they walked to every Friday. Special guests such as Dino Man, a dinosaur expert, made visits.
Earlier this summer, the kids showed their support for a camper's mother who has breast cancer by wearing pink and collecting coins for cancer research.
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