Summer Camp

Our Toad campers hipped and hopped their way through an exciting and critter-filled week. They started the week by building toad homes at their base camp and were delighted on Tuesday morning to find that some toads had indeed moved in! Water time also proved to be an excellent time to find critters. Throughout the week they also saw salamanders, crayfish, water striders, snakes, and tadpoles. They also enjoyed some classic Schoolhouse games like Beckon and Dragon’s Egg and listened to new stories each day during their hikes. It was a “toad-ally” awesome week!

Our Wilderness Survival campers had an exciting week learning about the basics of surviving and thriving out in the wild. They worked on their primitive fire-making skills using quartz and steel strikers to make sparks and learned to identify different kinds of edible plants. They built a basic forest shelter called a lean-to and practiced their whittling. They learned to read maps and picked up some navigation skills. They even had the opportunity to practice their wilderness first aid skills on some willing counselors-complete with fake blood! They capped off the week with some Schoolhouse classics like Six Feathers and (survival themed) Scout Mission and, of course, enjoyed cooling off in the creek during water time each day. It was a fun and unique week!