June 21, 2017

Caterpillar Photo Gallery

Our Orange summer season started with a great week in Caterpillar camp! We saw plenty of critters including snakes (red-bellied and northern water snakes), turtles, frogs, crawfish, and … of course some caterpillars! We saw some fantastic fort building with some great teamwork and played plenty of games including some Schoolhouse favorites like Dragon’s Egg, […]

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April 19, 2017

Wild Huts Photo Gallery ( 3/27/17-3/31/17)

This week in camp, we worked on building two amazingly innovative and well built huts as a group! We had incredible weather this week, too! (except that silly storm that messed with our family circle) We saw lots and lots of animals, and favorites included a marbled salamander, several snakes, and a whole lot of tent […]

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April 12, 2017

Wilderness Survival Photo Gallery (4/3/17-4/7/17)

We all survived this adventurous week of wilderness fun! During this camp we spent each day undertaking a new survival task – finding water, building shelters, searching for forest food, and trying our hand at primitive fire-making. When we weren’t busy surviving, we had time for plenty of games, stories, and water time. We hope […]

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April 11, 2017

Roots to Wings Photo Gallery (3/20/17-3/24/17)

Roots to Wings camp was filled to the brim! We had amazing weather, especially after that crazy cold weather the week before. Campers had a blast finding loads of critters by using binoculars, insect nets, and aquatic nets. Story-telling was a huge hit with this group, as well as fort-building. Our week wouldn’t have been complete without searching […]

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April 10, 2017

Game On! Photo Gallery (3/27/17-3/31/17)

During this week of camp we put the kids to work doing what they do best – playing! We spent our days trying out all sorts of sneaky games, running games, team games, and everything in between. Some favorites were Scout Mission, Windigo, Bum Bum Bum, Doxeneye, and Dragon’s Egg. After each game we had […]

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April 4, 2017

Whittling & Woodcraft (3/27/17-3/31/17)

We had a week filled with creating out at Brumley Forest! We practiced whittling techniques on projects like gnomes and snakes and moved on to using a few tools like a hand saw and hand drill to complete our wall hooks. The end of the week saw us lashing our river cane into a variety […]

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