WEEK 5 & 6!!!

Hey Everybody!


Sorry about the lack of posting and details in this post, the holidays are a busy time. But I wanted to at least post what the themes would be.... So.....


Week 5 is HARRY POTTER week!!!! As promised, Speedy, we will play Quidditch!!! I know many of us have characters we want to be... so go ahead and start planning and claiming your character!


Week 6 will be COLOR WAR!! What do you think of 3 teams?


For both of these ALREADY AMAZING WEEKS, what can we do to make them even better????


Happy Camping,
Squirrel

WEEK 4 - PIRATE WEEK!

Week Four – PIRATE WEEK!!!!

ARR, MATEY!!! Once again, Women’s Week has helped us prepare for a theme week… PIRATE week! We have decorations and costumes galore including pirate hats, eye patches, and pirate ships!

At least one of our all camp games will include some sort of treasure hunting all over camp!

I’m working on making up an all camp game where 4 teams will all battle each other in sword fighting, treasure hunting, sailing, and more! But right now, it’s just a complicated mess of notes.

And then for Friday’s all camp, I was thinking a big game of capture the flag or wells fargo!

Shipwreck is definitely a great meal to have during Pirate week, and we’ll probably have a dress up meal where everybody has an eye patch and has to eat one-eyed, or has a hook on their hand and must eat one-handed.

Some Upick/CYOA ideas are sailing, orienteering/geocaching, a scavenger hunt, etc. In the Tamarack, we could also have kids make their own little sailboats and have a race or make their own treasure chest and fill it with treasures from around camp!

For staff who are eagerly dreaming of camp, what I’m looking for from you now is feedback. I am really interested in what you think so far of this blog and our themes for this summer. If you don’t want to post here, please feel free to send me a facebook message, email, or even text me. Even if it’s just a quick comment that you are looking forward to a specific week, I’m looking for anything right now just to know staff are reading my blog. J

Specifically for pirate week, I am looking for some enthusiastic pirates that are excited about treasure hunting, sword fighting, sailing, shooting cannons of water balloons, building a pirates’ lair, and whatever else we all come up with for this super cool week of camp!

Happy Camping,

Squirrel

WEEK 3 - JUNGLE WEEK

Week 3 – JUNGLE WEEK!!!

Many of you know that last summer’s Women’s Week had “It’s a Jungle” theme. This means we have lots of fun stuff from them to use this summer for our new Jungle Week! We have animal face masks and tails galore! We have lots of stuffed animals and posters to decorate with!

This new Jungle theme has lots of potential, so get excited and let’s make camp into the wildest jungle ever! 

This is also a really easy theme to get campers involved and excited, because most the kids I’ve met would love to make an animal mask at the Tamarack and act like an animal all week!

All Camp ideas consist of the ever-popular counselor hunt, where counselors (or I was thinking this could be fun for Algonquin?) dress up as animals and hide all over camp. Campers then go around in groups and find as many “animals” as they can.

Another idea is Animal Olympics with different events like Cheetah sprint (running), Shark race (swimming), Kangaroo hop (hopping), Crab walk soccer (kicking), etc.

And third, we could have a stripes vs. spots capture the flag type game. This could work really well on Friday, because we stay in main field and can play until the bus shows up.

***I have a question not related to any particular theme, but all camps in general: What type of All Camp is your favorite??? Run around-play a game in main field? Groups walking/running all over camp? Stations that groups rotate between? Rainy day-indoors all camps? WHAT DO YOU ENJOY??? and WHAT DO YOU THINK CAMPERS MOST ENJOY???***

Back to Jungle week ideas,

For a meal, it would be cool to take the “shipwreck” idea, but make it that monkeys have gotten into the lodge and messed everything up. Staff could dress and act like monkeys for the entire meal.

When I was little at camp, we had a “jungle” breakfast (which would be an idea for pack out). Counselors got up early and hid our breakfast all around the unit so we had to go find it. We each had to find each part, so 1 bag of cereal, 1 fruit, 1 bowl, 1 spoon, 1 milk (if we had cartons) or the big gallon was hidden.

So what can you start thinking about? UPICK & CYOA ideas! And if you get really ambitious, make or find an animal costume… I want to be a lion!

Happy Camping,

Squirrel