Adventure Guide
4 years old - 8 grade
Registration Dates August 1 - September 15
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What is an Adventure Guide?
It’s a little girl who has just spent her first night away from
home with a daddy who is not real good at braiding hair.
It’s a little boy who just shot his first bow and arrow
with a mom who just shot her first bow and arrow.
It’s a little fellow who has just caught the biggest fish of
his life with the minnow his mom or dad put on his hook.
It’s fun, it’s love, it’s togetherness.
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Calendar of Events
You now can through our YMCA Adventure Guide Program. Parents, join with your children,
4 years old - 8 grade to create lifetime memories through shared experiences together. Moms & sons,
dads & daughters, create any combination of your choosing. You'll also create lasting friendships
with other parents and their children
Informational Meetings
Tuesday August 24 & Monday August 30 at 6:30pm
Both meetings will be held at the Canton YMCA
If you are unable to make one of the informational meetings please contact Kristen Gauvreau,
Senior Program Director, by email at kristeng@ymcaatlanta.org or call 678-564-2122 for more information.
New Member Manual
Children in Adventure Guides are ages 4 through 8 grade. Children at this age are excited and
inquisitive and enjoy learning new skills, making new friends and having new experiences. At this age
children want to try anything once, “curiosity” reigns along with fears and a need to have mom and
dad’s approval.
The Adventure Guides program is composed of circles. A circle consists of a group of moms or
dads and their sons or daughters. A circle usually consists of an average of 8-10 parent/child pairs.
The circle meets once a month in a member’s home. Homes are rotated as meeting sites. One Mom
or Dad is selected as Navigator. During the early part of the year, the circle selects a name and begins
work on Adventure Guide vests and necklaces.
The meeting consists of a planned program including the scouting report where each child has a turn
to speak before the group and share patches they have earned and accomplishments they have
achieved since the last circle meeting.
Crafts, games and story telling are a fun part of the meeting and teach sportsmanship and socialization.
Refreshments are always a treat for children and parents alike and provide a relaxed social environment
and an opportunity to develop friendships. A Circle will go on campouts together and plan circle outings.
They enjoy working on service projects and working together to create their own circle property such as
a banner, a drum, and/or a talking stick.
Both you and your child will meet new friends and create lifetime memories together. This is a special
time in your child’s life. The Adventure Guides Program is an ideal way to share the excitement of many
of your child’s first experiences, experiences that will last a lifetime.
Adventure Guides - It’s the way to open the door to new horizons for you and your child.
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Fees
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MEMber $25 per parent/child
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PROgram $40 per parent/child
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To participate in any Y programs you must have a membership. PROgram membership is a $35 annual fee. Facility MEMber has full facility access, and recieve discounts on our programs. To find out more about becoming a full facility MEMber please call (770) 345-9622
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Registration Available ONLINE or in person at the Canton YMCA
For easier online registration please use class ID # - 40318
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If you are unable to make one of the informational meetings please contact Kristen Gauvreau,
Senior Program Director, by email at kristeng@ymcaatlanta.org or call 678-564-2122 for more information.
