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
I'm going to be honest- I really don't like station games. I didn't like them as a kid either, I always felt like we spent too much time rotating between stations and not enough time actually having fun. I do like your meal ideas! I absolutely love shipwreck dinner, it is by far my favorite theme meal. I think we tried jungle breakfast this summer but due to some extenuating circumstances, my group never actually got to do it. But I definitely like the concept and would be willing to try it!
ReplyDeleteI always liked the all camps where you got to run/walk around the whole camp. I felt very independent and had a ton of fun. And Black Hawk has dont Jungle Breakfasts before. They are pretty fun.
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ReplyDeleteI feel like the girls didn't like the station games nearly as much as the run around, active games. I know that those ones are harder for staff members, but it was also really hard to keep spirits up while rotating to the next station and I feel like we should do as much as we can to keep the girls active and engaged.
I like the counselor hunt idea, and I think it could go really well. I also felt like the girls liked the games where they were more self lead and with a buddy rather than in big groups with a counselor. They got to do more as they pleased. But I feel like it shouldn't be called a "hunt." Maybe a safari instead.
and if you are going to do jungle breakfast, make sure that all the girls can do it. Last summer when we were supposed to do it, I had my group with a girl who was in a wheel chair and we were unable to do it. We felt bad that they had to miss out on something fun.
I'm glad you all like the run around games too... those are my favorite.
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ReplyDeleteCall your all camp counselor hunt Safari. You can have staff dress up as animals and hide and while groups try to find (capture and return to the game warden) them, you can have "poachers" who try to "steal" the animals. Fun for all. :)
ReplyDeleteOoooo poachers! Good concept.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Muffins about the stations not always being spectacular in energy and spirit and as a camper, I always loved the run around games the most.
This jungle theme sounds like it has amazing potential and I think we could definitely make it a top notch week. The Animal Olympics especially!
I like the monkey idea!!!!!!!! And the animal olympics!!!!!! And I like running around too!
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