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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Girl's Camp

This summer I had the privilege of being "Assistant Camp Craft Lady". It has been years since I have been to camp. Plus, it was the perfect assignment for me (No, not because I have any craft talent). For crafts you only have to be at camp from about 1pm-5pm. I was able to go home every night and sleep in my own bed. Then I was able to wake up and shower. Another bonus that week was it was over 100 degrees the whole time; my house has AC!

We offered 5 crafts and were there three afternoons. The girls could color in hibiscus bandannas, make a picture holder out of those large black paper clips, decorate a clip board, make these super cute pouches, or make a star card.

Here are girls coloring their bandannas. A Big Hit!


Crazy Hair Day! I think the girls had too much free time.



Princess Day (my Girls Camps didn't have dress up theme days. This is all new to me)


In the background are my Craft partners, Jan and Kat.


Look at how interested in the activities the girls are :)


The remains of the lovely cake Alli D. made.


Lovely Harmony Ward's campsite...

Chillin'


Hangin out


Still just relaxing


Okay, this is a "Snipe Dropping". Harmony made a big deal about going snipe hunting. Someone left the dropping. Another girl sat around sharpening sticks into spears and talking about good snipes and bad snipes. I felt really bad when those young, innocent girls asked me if I had ever seen a snipe. The older girls shot me death glares. What to do? I don't want the girls to find out that Sister Z lied to them, but I did want to ruin this game. Heck, I am only the Assistant Craft Lady! So, hmm...have I ever seen a snipe. "No" Why not? "Well, usually snipe hunts are at night and it's dark. That makes it hard to see anything." Do you know the difference between good and bad snipe? "I had never heard that here were good and bad ones." Are you coming on the hunt? "No, remember I am just the assistant craft lady and must go home." With that I quickly left the campsite. I heard the next morning that many girls were let down from the late night activities. Hopefully, they realized the others meant it in good fun.


This is Mary D. This was her original pose,

Then she found out the picture was for Hannah.

So, from gangster to giving hugs when it's for a 3 year old!

1 comment:

Beth said...

Interesting "theme"days at camp. I want to see pictures of the crafts. Good job being honest but cool.