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KBIA The Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association is 114-year-old summer program for ages 2 to 17. We hope to see you at the Beach!
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The Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association is 112-year-old summer program for ages 2 to 17. We offer recreational and enrichment classes, from swimming, surfing and sailing, to golf and tennis, arts and crafts and some 50 more offerings in between. Classes are open to KBIA members, and membership is open to the public. For more information, visit our office in Strong Cottage (to your right) or visit us on the web: www.kbia.net.

Our tennis players always have a ball on the court with Coach Jacqui! 🎾
07/24/2024

Our tennis players always have a ball on the court with Coach Jacqui! 🎾

Check out our new garden boxes at KBIA! Our Woodworking class built fabulous planters while Art students designed and pa...
07/21/2024

Check out our new garden boxes at KBIA! Our Woodworking class built fabulous planters while Art students designed and painted the boxes for Nature to show off the plants they grew from seeds during our plant unit! What a great community project! 📸: Tara Olshaw

Complete with set changes and self-written scripts, Campers staged a play in the tent, much to the delight of the Advent...
07/19/2024

Complete with set changes and self-written scripts, Campers staged a play in the tent, much to the delight of the Adventures Tent crew! Stay tuned for Part 2 next week! 📸: Emily Gannon

This just in: a family pool membership to Lodge on the Cove, donated by the Resort Collection. 💦🩱🏊🏼‍♀️🩳 Bid on it here,...
07/18/2024

This just in: a family pool membership to Lodge on the Cove, donated by the Resort Collection. 💦🩱🏊🏼‍♀️🩳 Bid on it here, and check out all the other fun and unique items! Our generous business and KBIA community has donated so many great items and opportunities that you can't always find on the shelves. We are grateful for their support, and we are grateful for yours! The online auction remains open until 7 PM Saturday, July 20!

https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/120928/auctions/165915?r=1&t=all&dxk=H4sIAAAAAAAEAKtWKs4vLUpOVbJScs1LT0xPVdJRSk7MLUjMTM8DipWkFpcoFKfmpSjVAgDYZCVCKgAAAA2

Every day is an adventure with the Adventures Tent crew! 📸: Susan Thombs
07/15/2024

Every day is an adventure with the Adventures Tent crew! 📸: Susan Thombs

Super Star! 🌟 Today was a great day in Marine Biology and Nature class! 📸: Everett Beals
07/12/2024

Super Star! 🌟 Today was a great day in Marine Biology and Nature class! 📸: Everett Beals

The boys went with a fun fish theme in this week’s Intro to Woodworking class with Ben! 🐠
07/12/2024

The boys went with a fun fish theme in this week’s Intro to Woodworking class with Ben! 🐠

We serve everyone here in the KBIA office! 🐾 📸: Lorraine Aromando
07/11/2024

We serve everyone here in the KBIA office! 🐾 📸: Lorraine Aromando

Upstairs in the Reading Room, we have some “model” students! 📸: Kristin Eaton
07/10/2024

Upstairs in the Reading Room, we have some “model” students! 📸: Kristin Eaton

Lost & Found (and laundered and folded!) is bursting out of the buckets! Come reunite with your missing items! 📸 : Tim B...
07/10/2024

Lost & Found (and laundered and folded!) is bursting out of the buckets! Come reunite with your missing items! 📸 : Tim Beals

Gah! We have an intense game of Jenga going on in the tent!
07/10/2024

Gah! We have an intense game of Jenga going on in the tent!

Coming up tomorrow night ! 🛍️
07/09/2024

Coming up tomorrow night ! 🛍️

Ta-da! Their final Title & Tidepools masterpieces from the Reading Room are complete! 📸: Kristin Eaton
07/09/2024

Ta-da! Their final Title & Tidepools masterpieces from the Reading Room are complete! 📸: Kristin Eaton

Think of Island Exploration with Nancy as the ultimate summer field trip! So much fun under the Cape Porpoise sun! 📸: Am...
07/08/2024

Think of Island Exploration with Nancy as the ultimate summer field trip! So much fun under the Cape Porpoise sun! 📸: Amy Hoffmaster

07/08/2024
07/07/2024

Marvelous morning for a community race! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽Thanks for coming out to our 33rd Annual Day at the Beach 1K Fun Run!

07/07/2024

They are off and running in our Day at the Beach 1K Fun Run at KBIA and Mother’s Beach! Only we condensed the race to a running time of 2.5 minutes for this video! Enjoy!

Unfortunately, due to the fog and lack of visibility, we have to cancel our regularly scheduled Open Sail and Kayak toda...
07/06/2024

Unfortunately, due to the fog and lack of visibility, we have to cancel our regularly scheduled Open Sail and Kayak today! 🥺

This scene from Nancy’s Sand Creations class was among the highlights noted by KBIA Counselor John Dugan! Check out his ...
07/05/2024

This scene from Nancy’s Sand Creations class was among the highlights noted by KBIA Counselor John Dugan! Check out his new column on campus happenings each week in our Thursday newsletters! 📸: John Dugan

Can you dig it? 🇺🇸 See what we did there in this week’s Sand Castle Building Class? 📸: John Bauman
07/03/2024

Can you dig it? 🇺🇸 See what we did there in this week’s Sand Castle Building Class? 📸: John Bauman

We’re putting ‘em to work in Boat Painting Class! 📸: Lorraine Aromando
07/03/2024

We’re putting ‘em to work in Boat Painting Class! 📸: Lorraine Aromando

Hands-on fun in Marine Bio class this week! (Shhh, bet you they learned a lot too!) 📸: Amy Hoffmaster
06/27/2024

Hands-on fun in Marine Bio class this week! (Shhh, bet you they learned a lot too!) 📸: Amy Hoffmaster

Come play! 🪁 New this year, we are starting a Community Beach Toy Box at Mother’s Beach. Located on the playground sand,...
06/27/2024

Come play! 🪁 New this year, we are starting a Community Beach Toy Box at Mother’s Beach. Located on the playground sand, the box will soon be filled with toys and available for all children of any age to borrow and enjoy during their day at the beach. Then return!

BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are looking for durable sand toys, beach buckets, shovels, sand trucks, bocce balls and games. We are accepting new and like-new used equipment (drop off at the Chamber of Commerce, 16 Water St., Kennebunk, please) and we have created the following Amazon wish list to help guide folks' gift-giving:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/JK9KQ79LVSDS?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_xLX51UsxoYfoJ&dxk=H4sIAAAAAAAEAKtWKs4vLUpOVbJScs1LT0xPVdJRSk7MLUjMTM8DipWkFpcoFKfmpSjVAgDYZCVCKgAAAA2

Look what the Critter Cruise brought in! 📸: Ella Beals 🦞
06/26/2024

Look what the Critter Cruise brought in! 📸: Ella Beals 🦞

Opti race is on! 📸: Kylie Coxon
06/26/2024

Opti race is on! 📸: Kylie Coxon

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262 Beach Avenue
Kennebunk, ME
04043

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

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We went cruising for critters this week, and our Critter Cruise crew found some good ones! 🦞🐚🦀⚓️🪼You never know what you are going to find when you pull up a KBIA lobster trap line! 📷: Captain Joe Pistone #kbia #crittercruise #kennebunk #kennebunkbeach #beachcamp #summercamp #sealife

After most kiddos have gone home, we open up our pool to water polo competition during Weeks 3-6, and watch out! 💦 The competition is fierce … and FUN! #kbia #kennebunkbeach #waterpolo #poolfun #summercamp #campfun #waterpololife #waterpoloworld #waterpologame

That beautiful string music in the morning air? 🎵 Those sweet sounds come from Will’s budding Ukulele musicians, of course! Take a peek inside the classroom!

Up in the art loft, kiddos in Liz’s Pottery & Sculpture class are creating flower pots that have a clay base and a woven-yarn top! 🌸 Love how every piece starts the same and every child adds their own artistic touch! #kbia #kennebunkbeach #summercamp #beachcamp #artloft #summerart #creativity #create #creativekids

Got ‘em! 🦈🐠 During this “Shark Week,” it’s Sharks vs. Minnows in John’s Beach Games class on Mother’s Beach! #kbia #mothersbeach #summercamp #campgames #beachgames #sharkweek #sharks #minnows

Day at the Beach 1K Fun Run
Day at the Beach 1K Fun Run

They are off and running in our Day at the Beach 1K Fun Run at KBIA and Mother’s Beach! Only we condensed the race to a running time of 2.5 minutes for this video! Enjoy!

Let’s learn to sail! ⛵️ But first we rig the boat together … ...#kbia #sailingcamp #sailcamp #sailing #opti #boating #learntosail #kennebunkbeach #kennebunk #kennebunkcove #summercamp #beachcamp

What happens in the Reading Room … stays with ‘em all year long! Keep those minds sharp in Ms. Kristin’s classes all summer! 📷: Kristin Eaton

What a great morning on our first day at KBIA! 🔆 Who’s ready to do it all over again tomorrow? 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽

Two months from today, we open for our 114th summer at the beach! ⛵️☀️Are you ready?

It’s been quite the day at KBIA 💔 Three days after angry oceanwater came crashing over our playground and campus, Mother Nature came back for more this morning and has left significant, devastating damage in her wake. Roads are still closed to the beach tonight, our campus cameras captured this footage at the height of the storm. #kbia #mothersbeach #kennebunkbeach #kennebunk #roadclosed #stormdamage #flooding #hightide #kbiastrong

We’re coming for ya, 2024!

Good tidings to you from Mother’s Beach on this New Year’s Eve ✨ Let’s make it a great 2024!

We’re soooo close! Can you help us close it out? As we continue to "Shore Up Our Future," we have raised $180,000 of the $200,000 goal for our waterfront campaign, which will help us continue to improve our waterfront for the next generation of sailors, kayakers, SUPpers and more. https://kbia.net/shore-up-our-future/?dxk=H4sIAAAAAAAEAKtWKs4vLUpOVbJScs1LT0xPVdJRSk7MLUjMTM8DipWkFpcoFKfmpSjVAgDYZCVCKgAAAA2

Sculpture Olympics! One of the kiddos’ favorite hands-in projects up in Charlotte’s Pottery & Sculpture class is the Olympics, when they have only a few minutes to complete a specific sculpture assignment using only their clay and imagination. Here, they must make a snake family. 🐍 Who do you think won? 🏆 #kbia #kennebunkbeach #artloft #art #sculpture #sculptures #snakes #clayart #artolympics #olympics

Long live summer! Though we’ve wrapped up our season at the beach, we have so many memories to share from an incredible eight weeks! Here’s a look back at Monday in the Cove with Ms. Tara’s Nature class. They were digging for clams, while talking about high tide vs. low tide (this was in between!) but really it’s about our youngest learners having fun in nature! #kbia #cove #kbiacove #natureclass #naturekids #clams #tides #kbianature #natureplayground #digging #sand

And that’s a wrap on our Summer 2023 season! 🩱🤿🩳 Here, our swim team does a belly-flop wave goodbye! 📸: Anu Rawlings

What rain? It’s the final Friday Funday here in campus for Summer 2023 — in the total pouring rain! And you know what? The kids (and our fun-loving staff) don’t care! What rain? #kbia #FridayFunday #whatrain #rainout #lastdayofsummer #lastday #summer2023

When you’re aboard Captain Joe’s Critter Cruise, you know it’s going to be a great day! 🦞🐚🦀🛥️🌊🐟🦑 We never know what we’re going to find, at sea or in KBIA’s lobster traps, but you know it’s going to be “the best day ever” because Captain Joe makes it that way for every kid aboard — every time! His classes are waitlisted, with good reason, because kids come back every week because they can’t get enough! We went along for a ride this week so we could share the magic of Critter Cruise with parents and friends. Enjoy! #kbia #kennebunk #crittercruise #lobsters #crabs #shark #goblinshark #highseasadventures #adventure #visitmaine #gokennebunks #quintessentialmaine #captain #luckykids #summer #summervibes #summervacation #mainesummer

Come and grab candy at our wholesale price for an end of the summer treat or even early Halloween shopping! 🍭🍫🍬 $31 for Skittles, yes…for 36 full size bags!

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The Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association is 109-year-old summer program for ages 2 to 17. We offer recreational and enrichment classes, from swimming, surfing and sailing, to golf and tennis, arts and crafts and some 50 more offerings in between. Classes are open to KBIA members, and membership is open to the public. For more information, visit our office in Strong Cottage or visit us on the web: www.kbia.net. We hope to see you at the Beach!

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