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
One of my favorite parts of beach week was when we acted out Lilo and Stitch... I think it came to mind because we did it at the waterfront and pirates have a connection to water. But that's neither here, nor there. Can we do that at some point this summer?
ReplyDeleteI LOVE PIRATES!!!
ReplyDeleteScavenger hunt involving treasure maps.
I want a parrot.
This was a very useful post, I know.
I think this might be a really cool week to do an adventure race of some kind. We would definitely be able to use the orienteering/map reading, sailing/canoeing, ropes courses, and other things too!! PS I'm an enthusiastic pirate!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYAY PIRATES!!!!! I know last year we worked Mission into this week too it was the mission to steal Captain Hazel's Treasure :)
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