FMCA member benefits

Youth Activities

The youthful arm of FMCA is composed of four age groups of children: Teen-Age Travelers, or TATS (ages 13 to 18), PRE-TEENS (ages 10 to 12), TWEENS (ages 6 to 9), and TOTS (ages 2 to 5).

The FMCA Youth Activities Committee plans and schedules age-specific activities for each group of children at FMCA's summer international conventions. The children pack hours of fun into their four-day reunions.

Bowling, miniature golf, roller skating, and pizza and ice cream parties are the mainstays of the program, while the committee seeks out additional activities that are interesting, fun, affordable, and challenging. Youth centers also are set up for each age group at the conventions.

Over the years the youth program has offered hiking, swimming, white-water rafting, and horseback riding for the older age groups. On the educational side, the children have toured museums and science centers, as well as businesses that manufacture everything from school buses to toothbrushes. The TATS enjoy karaoke and dancing to all types of popular music that is in the TATS Center on the convention grounds.

The TOTS enjoy an expanded program off the convention grounds with lunch outings at local restaurants with play areas, visits to city parks, and other activities geared to their age group.

The Youth Activities Program is open to all children in the above age groups who attend FMCA conventions with their parents, grandparents, or guardians.

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