We now have over 30 different classes to choose from in a single session of Summer Camp, and finding a few new and innovate ways to pass a summer day is one of our favorite things. This season, those favorite things will come with two brand-new programming areas on 4-H Camp for our campers to enjoy.
So with that, let's get right to one of our favorite things:
Canoe-nity
Gardening
For several years now, our most-requested-new-class-at-Camp has been campers, parents, and staff clamoring for a gardening program. We’re now thrilled to be able to oblige, and with a good ol’ Campy twist no less: our community garden is in fact a CANOE-nity Garden. We love to repurpose here at 4-H Camp, so we’ve taken some of our decommissioned canoes and rowboats and turned them into garden planters near the entrance to Camp. Campers will learn the basics of gardening, all while caring for, tending too, (and of course watering) our Camp Canone-nity Garden. Like everything else at Camp, the fun comes from getting your educational crash-course in gardening in a hands-on, in-the-dirt, learn-by-doing manner. Why, the fruits, vegetables, and herbs our campers harvest might just even find their way to the Camp kitchen, onto the salad bar, or into that evening’s meal.
Throwing
Stuff
There’s a simple fact we’ve come to embrace here at 4-H Camp: throwing stuff is fun. It is simply fun to throw stuff! However, we’d often have to tell our campers (especially, but not exclusively, our younger campers) that it was neither the time nor the place to throw the rocks, sticks, and pine cones that lie around the forests of 4-H Camp. But now, with the introduction of this brand-new activity, during our Throwing Stuff class IS the time, and our Throwing Range IS the place. Campers will hike back to our secluded throwing range, collect that day’s projectiles, and safely engage in the time-honored tradition of hurling objects at a variety targets. Through a series of our camp-made, rustic, natural and wild carnival games, campers will get to put their accuracy, speed, timing, and strategic creativity to the test. It’s yet another Camp offering of a way to simply enjoy yourself, having a fun time with some new friends, playing some games outside.
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Plus!
In addition!
And also!
We've got a few New Old Classes!
Or Classes We've Had Before in The Past But Are Now Slightly Different!
Or Revamped Classes!
Oh. That last one sounds best. Let's go with that.
And now, plus also in addition, our REVAMPED CLASSES for Summer 2018 are:
CIT I:
The Camp Community
(For Campers 15 years of age)
Our oldest campers often know that 4-H Camp is a special place from the multiple summers they’ve spent here. However, our CIT I class allows them the opportunity to engage in a deep examination of what makes this Camp community tick, and to begin to take a behind the scenes look at the work needed to create the kind, respectful, and supportive environment that we endeavor 4-H Camp to be. Our CIT I program involves several deep discussions sharing the CITs’ individual camp experience, various team-building activities, and some Camp service projects that will include spending some time in our brand-new Canoe-nity Garden. They will also partake in a unique CIT I only camp-out, that will serve to help the group get to know each other, as well as provide another opportunity to look into what makes “camp” Camp. In addition they may also occasionally have some added responsibility during All-Camp games or other events, and be expected to behave like a model camper at all points during the week. CIT I is the first step in our leadership program, and the beginning of a journey to one-day becoming a Junior Counselor, or perhaps even a full summer staff member.
This course has been retooled and re-imagined for Summer 2018, so participants will be the first to engage in this new Camp tradition.
Camp
Journal
Camp Reporter is now…Camp Journal! Camp Journal is 4-H Camp’s own creative writing class. Through various writing exercises, campers will get the chance to document, record, and expound upon the goings-on and unique experiences of their Camp week. The pieces may range from being a diary of their time in the cabins, to a partly-fact-mostly-fiction exposé on the zaniness of a session’s particular theme. The class will travel to all sorts of peaceful and inspiring sections of 4-H Camp, and the variety of writing prompts will be certain to get all our campers’ creative juices flowing! At the end of the class, all campers will be left with a memoir of their own Camp week, written in a style specific to each and every one of them.
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We can't wait to discover the potential these new classes hold as we create them together with our campers over the seven sessions of Summer 2018!
Check out our full course offerings list here, and start getting excited to sign up for Camp in only 18 DAYS when Polar Bear Registration kicks of December 2nd.
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