Tuesday Questions to Ask Your Survival Challenge Camper
If you’re curious about what your child has been up to in camp this week, here are some questions to get the conversation started.
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Tuesday Questions to Ask Your Old Timey Adventures Camper
If you’re curious about what your child has been up to in camp this week, here are some questions to get the conversation started.
Thursday Questions to Ask Your Creek Critters Camper
If you’re curious about what your child has been up to in camp this week, here are some questions to get the conversation started.
Tuesday Questions to Ask Your Creek Critters Camper
If you’re curious about what your child has been up to in camp this week, here are some questions to get the conversation started.
Last Week in Lizard Camp
Lizard campers explored the woods by going on a bug safari. They also found lots of baby animals such as a box turtle, a grey treefrog, and skinks. They learned about lizards by playing three games: branch to branch, tails, and a game about camouflage. This group also LOVED mud! They did a lot of mud face paint and made up their own game called mud monster, which quickly turned to poop monster. Aftercare campers tapped into their inner superhero and made capes out of sheets.
Last Week in Earth Art Camp
Earth Art campers explored their creative side with quill writing, creating nature journals, painting, making friendship bracelets and rock statues, building a natural art gallery for the 5-7 year old aftercare kids, whittling (lots and lots of whittling), and forming a band. They also played an awesome game of Six Feathers and visited the creek spot named by Umstead’s very first group of campers: Spa City.
Last Week in Outdoor Survival Camp
We started off this week with a bang, literally! This week’s Monday pickup produced a wicked awesome storm. The group also enjoyed learning map reading skills, building lean tos, identifying plants, fire-building, knot tying, and whittling. Awesome wildlife finds were a baby snapping turtle, tulip tree moth, painted turtle, eastern box turtle, northern water snakes, and a worm snake. Game favorites included a survival version of scout mission, windigo and six feathers. They also did some tree climbing!
Last Week in Cub Camp
Our week in Brumley Forest was awesome! We saw some cool animals like skinks, turkey vultures, turtles, snails, caterpillars, salamanders, butterflies, fish, spiders, and some campers got to see a rough green snake!
Last Week in Young Survivalist Camp (Orange)
Last week was filled to the brim at Brumley Forest. We learned about many different survival skills throughout the week. For water we tried gathering dew, making a solar still, and using plant transpiration in plastic bags. Shelter building was a huge hit, and after many campers constructed debris shelters, campers moved on to more creative and imaginative forts! We had some pretty amazing forts built with fire pits, ‘bathrooms’ (for show only!), chandeliers, beds, and all sorts of decorations. Fire building was a hit as campers got to try building fires and starting fires with quartz and steel strikers. We learned about edible plants like wild ginger, pine needles, blackberries, wild plums and some decidedly non-edible plants like pokeweed and buckeye. Our week wouldn’t have been complete without creek time to cool off! Campers caught mussels and cray fish, built them habitats, named them, and even married some. Classic Schoolhouse games like Beckon, Windigo, and Scout Mission filled the little time we had left (oh, and let’s not forget whittling!). It was an awesome week!
Last Week in Crawdad Camp
Highlights of Crawdad Camp included a nature ramble to the big rocks, decorating treasure boxes, bouncing on “the ride,” playing werewolf, beckon, and sock wars, finding clams in the river, making grass bracelets, and watching a wasp attack a spider and drag it across the forest floor.