WEEK 2 - DISNEY WEEK!!

Week 2 is Disney week! (and Pixar, because I like CARS and TOY STORY!!)

If you’re looking for ways to procrastinate doing your homework, watch some Disney movies and say you are preparing for camp! :0) One of my ideas for an all camp is some version of Disney Trivia! (Does anybody have Disney Scene It or Trivial Pursuit Disney or something we could use?)

For the big all camp game, I made up a Disney Mystery/Scavenger Hunt type game. I will need staff dressed up as “good” Disney characters (and an “item” the villains have stolen) and some evil Disney villains to lurk around camp, so start thinking about who you might want to dress up as! Some examples are Winnie the Pooh and a jar of honey OR Marlin and Nemo OR Aladdin and a magic carpet. Some villains include Maleficent, Hades, Gaston, Scar, etc. (The villains do not have to match with the good characters)

For decorations, we have all the colored pictures from last year and the big banners to hang up. (Should I look into getting the tablecloths again?)

Disney music will obviously be played all week J And we could have a sing-off (maybe included in the trivia tournament) And a stop-and-go meal. (Is there a name for that meal… where we play music and you have to freeze when the music stops?)

An idea for a CYOA is “Princess School” (Yes, I totally got this idea from my IT 2’s last summer that rated my princess level as a “PEEP” which comes before a PIT (Princess-in-training)) … anyway, Princess School could include the nail painting, learning table etiquette at a tea party, wearing a dress and crown etc. (I’ll let the J’s for ’11 come up with more ideas for that since they’ve already started my princess training) And if we are going to have a Princess CYOA, then we could also have a Hero CYOA where they run around on an obstacle course and “train” to be a Disney hero! And/Or we could have training to become a villain and make mischief around camp and capture the princesses. And the heroes would have to come save them! … Okay, this sounds more like an all camp than CYOA, but I just type what I think of in my head.

Time for your ideas to start being posted!

And staff & JC’s – start thinking of who you would like to be in the All Camp game

Happy Camping,

Squirrel

EVERY WEEK - TIE-DYE TUESDAY!

We all know how much I love wearing tie-dye, so of course, we are going to have TIE-DYE TUESDAY! :)

Now, to make Tie-Dye Tuesday happen, we need to have the campers tie-dye as soon as possible.... meaning Monday morning everybody in camp will have to find time to Tie-Dye - Yay!

My idea is Tie-dye and team building Mondays 10-12. I added in the team building because it is so important at camp for campers to learn to work together, trust others, and how to communicate, and most of our programs do some team building already. This will be a great "first activity" at camp for you to get to know your campers better and for them to come together as a group (which will hopefully carry on throughout the week). What do you all think? (Especially counselors, because you will be the ones facilitating the team building activities) As for ideas and resources, you will have LOTS (I can post a bunch online on the camp website or on my blog ahead of time and then we'll actually do some of them during staff training)

Happy Camping,

Squirrel

WEEK 1 - TRAVEL WEEK

Week 1 (Me & My Gal) - Travel/International Week!!!

Before I go into detail... I want to make it clear, NOTHING about the themes are set yet (except for the theme itself) ... This is a blog for brainstorming ideas for each theme. I will post what I've thought of, and then it's your job to say what you like, dislike, have questions about, and ideas that you have to add. This blog is open to everybody (staff, parents, campers, etc.) so please be aware of that when posting. Staff and Algonquin are welcome to post opinions and ideas about each theme - the more the better!

My ideas for travel week...

-Upon arrival, each camper and gal will make themselves a passport to carry around throughout the week.

-There will be a section that lists places in camp, and in each of those places a stamp, so they can stamp that they went to that place.

-Another section will be trivia questions (about countries, about staff who have visited/lived in other countries, etc.)

-Also, a place where they can keep track of the different activities they do at camp

Upicks - start thinking... because we need lots... about countries you know stuff about! ... Could be making a food from another country, teaching a song or dance, learning a language, etc. An example of this... I have a digeridoo they can try playing and boomerangs to try throwing, and/or if somebody wanted to teach cricket or afl or another sport. There are lots of possibilities here.

Decorations - flags around the lodge

All Camp Idea - Amazing Race around camp incorporating different countries, can get a puzzle piece at each station/place to collect and put in passport.

Okay, so that's the start of my ideas, I will probably post more as you all post your thoughts.

Lastly, at the end of each theme blog, I will post what I am most looking for out of all of you (AKA what I need help for sure with)... For travel week, I need all of you to share your knowledge and resources about countries you know about, most of you will be helping run Upicks, so start thinking of what you would like to do.

I can't wait to hear your ideas! :)

Happy Camping,

Squirrel

CBH Theme Weeks!

Hey Everybody,

Themes have been decided on and will be printed in the brochure this year that will be coming out in late January. But that’s a long time to wait, so I will be posting one theme a week on this blog for the next 9 weeks! I will say some of my ideas about each theme, but I also want to hear your ideas too! So please comment and contribute to this blog and get excited, cause summer 2011 is gonna be awesome!

Squirrel

Camp Black Hawk

Camp Black Hawk is an amazing camp!

Check out these sweet pictures of staff from summer of 2010.

http://s1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/squirrel730/Camp%20Black%20Hawk/