Cute Ideas for my campers?

Question

I will be a camp counselor at a church camp in a couple of weeks. I'm trying to think of fun ideas for the girls in my cabin. I'm going to give them prayer journals and I've colored some pictures to hang around the cabin. any other fun ideas for my campers?

Answer 1

INSIDE

* Card games (Solitaire if alone)

* Checkers

* Backgammon

* Chess

* Dominos

* Mahjong (Chinese tiles game)

* Go (also called Weiqi or Baduk), Chinese strategy game of white & black "stones"

* Other travel- or full-size board games

* Hemp or other string to make braided bracelets (friendship bracelets)

* Supplies to make bead jewelry (beads, string)

* Supplies to make native american-style jewelry/items (beads, feathers, string, wire)

* Pad/paper, pens, pencils, charcoals and/or markers for sketching and drawing

* Scrap material and sewing supplies to work on a patchwork quilt

* Modeling Clay / Play Dough diorama

* Popsicle sticks and white glue to make popsicle stick sculptures

* Legos! (just don't leave them lying around to be stepped-on, it hurts!)

* Pick-up Sticks

* Barrel of Monkeys

* Marbles (another thing to not leave lying around)



OUTSIDE

* Run through a meadow

* Hug a tree

* Smell a flower

* Hike a trail through the woods

* Stop at a stream for a picnic

* Swim in a stream or lake

* Climb a mountain (or a mountain trail)

* Explore a cave

* See birds or wildlife

* Mountain Bike

* Photograph wild flowers

* Collect leaves or pine cones

* Enjoy the beauty and serenity of nature

* Lie back and look at clouds

* Find a waterfall and stand under it (if it's safe)

* Take a canoe, kayak, raft or tube trip on a river or stream

* Join a group and help maintain trails

* Search for abandoned buildings/towns/mines

* Check the park/ranger office for any scheduled activities

* Go horseback riding

* Fly a kite

* Swing from a vine

* Go fishing (with a license)

* Skim stones across a pond

* Catch a frog and let him go

* Catch a (non-poisonous) snake and let him go

* Practice using a map and a compass

* Take lots of pictures

* Run away from a bear

* Don't feed that big kitty

* Don't go near deer, (Bambi can kick the cr@p out of you)

* Ditto for most other wild animals

* Don't eat the mushrooms

* Look for Native American artifacts, structures and paintings

* Look for Civil War artifacts

* Pick and eat your own berries, apples, corn, etc (only where permitted)

* Try to dig your way to China

* Fill in the hole you dug

* Archery

* Geocaching

Answer 2

Teach them Yawgoog songs:





Bear Song



From Camp Yawgoog.Org





Category: Songs









Lyrics

The other day, I met a bear,

Out in the woods, away out there. ''[Point.]''

Chorus:

(Same lines in unison)



He looked at me, I looked at him,

He sized up me, I sized up him.



He says to me, "Why don't you run?"

"'Cause I can see, you have no gun."



And so I ran, away from there,

But right behind, me was that bear.



And on the path ahead of me,

I saw a tree, Oh glory be.



The lowest branch was ten feet up,

I'd have to jump and trust my luck.



And so I jumped into the air,

But I missed that branch away up there.



Now don't you fret, and don't you frown,

I caught that branch on the way back down.



That's all there is, there ain't no more,

Unless I meet that bear once more.



Tune



Sung to the tune of "Sipping Cider Through a Straw"

Answer 3

play games like pictionary telephone and make each other friendship bracelets what i have done with my girl because i too have been a counselor at church camps is for example do activities with the girls and so the girls open make sure you say whatever is spoken in this room stays here and that help to get the girls talking and opening up really well have them make each other a piece of paper with their names at the tops and write encouraging and nice things about that person it will make the girls feel loved and safe as well as comfortable

Answer 4

Bees