CAMP
DISNEY
These
ideas are from Grace N. of Sunland-Tujunga
Service Unit, GSC San Fernando Valley (CA)
My
service unit had their annual Spring Camp - here were our activities. This was
cabin camping with a dining
hall.
We had 191 campers from 1st year Brownies to Adults attend. Each rotation was
for 30 min.
Little
Mermaid:
blank white picture frames purchased from S&S which the girls decorated
with colored sand and
sea
shells. The girls posed with a cut out of either Ariel or Beauty & the
Beast dancing - which ever they chose and
we
took polaroid pictures of them which were placed in the frames. (we had to cut backs from cardboard to complete
the
frame).
Flubber: We used the Elmer's glue
and Borax recipe. This workshop caused the most headaches for us, but was the
camp
favorite. Based on the amount of ingredients needed for a single serving of
flubber, we calculated that we needed
7 GALLONS of Elmers. The leader responsible for
this workshop had had personal problems and was not able to get
things
together in time for camp, so I had to run around trying to find 7 gallons of
Elmers when I should have been packing. BTW the best place to get it is at your
large hardware stores such as Lowe's, OSH, or Home Depot (I went to them all
and
wiped out their supplies!!) The Cadettes running the workshop ended up cutting
the recipe 3 times and I came home
with
4 gallons ~ BIG SIGH. Aside from that,
after the girls made their flubber, they played relay games with it such as
passing
it from player to player under chins with out using hands. The team to finish
first had to run and toss it in a
basketball
hoop.
Beauty
& the Beast: We try to have one cooking workshop at our camp and we used this one
as it. At first we
wanted
to make scones or something using a box oven. But we decided on a cake
decorating theme. The girls
made
mice out of Twinkies using lolly pops for ears, red vine licorice for tails and
cake icing, M&M's, chocolate chips
for
decorating their mice. These were later served as after camp fire snack.
Tinkerbell
Central: We
used the "fairy dust necklace" idea for this workshop but with a
Tinkerbell twist. The girls
were
asked to write a wish on a small piece of paper, then pluck a shamrock from
shamrock garland for Leprechaun
luck
and wrap it in the paper. Then the other ingredients went into the tiny baggie.
The girls also made crowns from
the
shamrock garland with streamers. This was another favorite!
Mary
Poppins: We
used the theme "Feed the Birds" and made bird feeders. The workshop
leader used recycled
milk
cartons from the school cafeteria and made cutting lines for the girls to cut
the openings on two sides.
Her
husband gave her labels from work that fit perfectly on the sides that were not
cut, which the girls were able to
decorate
using Sharpies. They made roofs from 3x5 index cards and each had a small dowel
to use for a perch.
We
gave the leaders a baggie of bird seed for each girl to give to them when they
got home.
Mulan: We purchased the Fireworks
Fans from S&S and was perhaps the worst workshop at the camp. It was too
easy,
to quick and the fans didn't work right. But we needed another workstation and
this is the only thing we could
come
up with in a hurry.
Each
troop had 2 free times - one in the morning and one in the afternoon which the
troops really appreciated.
We
asked each troop to represent a Disney movie and prepare a skit or perform a
song from that movie. Some of
them
were really quite good and the girls really enjoyed it.
Sat.
night dinner was from Lady and the Tramp. The cooks served spaghetti and meat
balls and went way out of their
way
to decorate the dining hall. The tables had red & white checkered paper
table cloths, they made an arbor of grape
vines
(plastic) that the girls had to pass through to enter the dining hall. On each
table was an empty wine
bottle
decorated with paint to look like wax drippings with an unlit candle in each
one. The dining hall has tiny white
lights
in the rafters which were turned on before the girls came in. There were so many
ooohs and aaahs from girls and adults alike.
Our
workshops were staffed with Cadette and Seniors. This year we were very
fortunate to have 34 older girls with us. Ususally, we only have one or two
small troops and by the end of Saturday, these girls are worn out. By having so
many,
we were able to rotate them around and they were able to do all the workshops
as well.
Well,
that's about it, except to say that this camp was perhaps the most fun and the
easiest one to plan. We had so
any
great ideas that it was difficult to decide which ones to keep and which ones
we couldn't do.
Everyone
had a great time.