Days 3 and 4
Monday is always the most chaotic day of camp with everyone trying to figure out what they are doing, both den leaders and station leaders. Tuesday usually runs pretty smoothly as the station leaders have all run through their classes for a complete day and the den leaders feel more confident. Wednesday is the 2nd most chaotic day as we change to new classes which means things might not work, supplies might be missing, the boys might not be interested. Here's what we did for days three and four.
Space Ships
I'd ordered flying disks from Dollar Tree that they could decorate but they ended up on back order. We made foil covered paper plates instead. They actually fly really well.
Trying to land their space ships at the "space station".
Car Launchers
Decorating her launcher.
My step dad Greg cut and partially assembled the 150 launchers for us. Each boy got to decorate their launcher and select a new hot wheels car.
We don't have any pavement at camp so I bought a sheet of plywood the boys could race their cars on.
Robots
They rotated through some fun games: giant kerplunk, ladder golf and knock over the laundry baskets.
They rotated through some fun games: giant kerplunk, ladder golf and knock over the laundry baskets.
They also tried to work together at their "robot factory" to pass a marble from one piece of PVC pipe to another without dropping it.
Giant Kerplunk to test their precision as robots.
Aliens
They decorated alien visors from Oriental Trading.
They built popcycle stick and rubber band catapults and launched their aliens into space.
Cooking
Eating "zero gravity" food
We also made campfire eclairs.
Day camp has many variations on the "food on a stick" genre.
After baking their crescent roll, they filled it with pudding they made in a bag and frosted it with chocolate frosting.
The Moon
Oreo phases of the moon
Race to the moon relay
Two teams with their flags planted on the moon
William modeling the astronaut outfit ahead of time.
The boys dressed up in tyvek astronaut suits complete with 2-liter bottle rocket packs, rubber moon boots and 2 gallon bucket astronaut helmets.
They had to dress like an astronaut, make their walk to the moon, then return to their team, take off the astronaut outfit and help the next person dress like an astronaut. It was a fun game, and I thought it up myself!
during the relay
Blast Off
Kool-Aid squeezers paper rocket launchers
Nature Walk
Every year the boys get to take a nature walk down to the river. This year, on Tuesday morning I asked the property manager if the trail was ready for us. He said he thought it was but he'd make sure. It wasn't long before I saw a truck load of workers head down to the trail and soon we heard weed whackers and chain saws running. They worked all day to get the trail ready for us to use the next day.
Every year the boys get to take a nature walk down to the river. This year, on Tuesday morning I asked the property manager if the trail was ready for us. He said he thought it was but he'd make sure. It wasn't long before I saw a truck load of workers head down to the trail and soon we heard weed whackers and chain saws running. They worked all day to get the trail ready for us to use the next day.
Here's part of the path.
How many camps get this kind of beauty so close by yet don't have to worry about it during the regular part of camp? The nature walk was some of the adults favorite part of camp.
This large tree is on the nature walk.
Repeated from days 1 and 2: flag football, archery, bb guns, den time
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