Camping Out Ideas
Any good ideas for summer camp projects?
I am a director of a Summer Camp for ages 4-10 any ideas
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- Make Fire! Talk to a vollyball.
- I did one where you got a price sheet for parts and a budget and had to design a space craft, maybe something along those lines.
- play hide and go seek
- Make shrinky dinks! Go to a craft store. They should have a kit.
- Make Kaleidoscopes. Make faux fossils for an archeology project. Make Stilts. Make a pine cone bird feeder. Make seashell wind chimes. Make tanagrams. Make a solar system replica. Make kites. Make sun catchers. Visit the site below for tons of stuff.
- There are a lot good websites which you check for them by doing a www.google.com search. It also depends whether they are indoor's or outdoor's camp project. One suggestion for that age group for an indoor activity would be to make your classroom into a look-like 'outdoor' campsite. You can assign the students for each 'tent', and when they first come into the class, they have to look for their own 'tent', and introduce themselves to each other. Have them then decorate their own so-called camp area. The other one is do the 'Harry Potter' roles, and have the students dress up for the role they choose or assigned. And go from there using their magic wands for games. Hope this helps.
- At that age I loved crafts, I think it would be fun to buy a whole bunch of random craft supplys like glue and those fuzzy balls, string etc. and see what they all make out of it or have a contest for the other kids to vote on the most unique.
- We made plaster of Paris and the kids collected stuff on nature walks and we put it in the plaster. We bought tri beads and made bracelets, We made yarn octopus's. We made wishing wells taking the pinch type clothes pins apart and gluing them to baby food jars they were cute. I was in charge of crafts for a diabetic camp for ages 5-16. We Decoupaged rocks with pretty pictures for paper weights and made vinyl trash bags for the parents cars
- Make Kaleidoscopes. Make faux fossils for an archeology project. Make Stilts. Make a pine cone bird feeder. Make seashell wind chimes. Make tanagrams. Make a solar system replica. Make kites. Make sun catchers.
- When I was little I went to girl scout camp. I remember doing a dinosaur egg hunt where we formed teams of about 4 or 5 kids and it was set up like a treasure hunt where the first clue leads to the next clue and so on. At each "clue" was a counselor who gave us the next "clue" (I'm sure as a way of doing a head count as this was outside) and at the end was the "dinosaur egg" which was a watermelon that we all shared!!!!!!!!!! We also did tie-dyed shirts and made candles.
- there is this really cute game call flour kiss. you divide the group into teams and line them up. then they run up to a bowl filled with flour and hershey kisses mixed in there. they kids need to pick it up with only their mouth and then eat the kiss before they can run back and tag their other team mate to do the same. the first team to finish wins!
- What's your theme? How long of projects? Projects that can be done in 10 minutes or 1 hour a day for 5 days? 1. picture contest. each kid gets a disposable camera, have to fill it up with a scavenger hunt type list of objects/animals/scenes and come up with funny/disturbing/intellectual/creative headings for each picture, or has to write a poem about each picture - then all the cameras to be developed a couple days before camp's over, and the last couple days of camp the kids have to put their pictures & writings together into a type of memory book. This can be done as an individual or group project. 2. Create a play. Team project, they have to come up with a plot, create characters & scene, write the dialogue, practise, and then display a 10-15 minute play to the entire group on the last day. 3. be creative. brainstorm new games with the kids. make them have a contest to see which group can come up with the BEST NEW GAME/PROJECT of the camp! Top 5 groups get prizes or whatever.
