Activity Day Girls Camp

I'm currently an Activity Day leader at church.  Activity Days is a program for girls 8-11 years old.  This week (Tuesday-Friday) we had a day camp for the girls from our stake.  

The camp was put on by a lady named Beverly DeKay.  She has been a cub scout leader for a number of years, and she feels the same effort and energy and time should be spent teaching the girls outdoor skills too.  So she volunteered to run this camp.  This is the second year she has done it.

Here is a list of some of the things the girls did:

Made journals (I was in charge of this activity...)

Learned how to build fires

Knife/whittling skills...hiking sticks

Hiking (only the older girls got to do this...we were going to go on a group hike, but we ran out of time)

Learned about plants...gathered different plants and made plant "potions"

Made first-aid kits

Learned some survival skills

Made bracelets

Made shrinky-dinks

Decorated camp t-shirts

Lashing...made picture frames by lashing sticks together

Water safety

Rafting

Gun safety

Shooting .22s

Tuesday-Thursday we were at Beverly DeKay's house.  

The view from Beverly's house...A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!

There were about 70 girls at camp! 

Sister DeKay teaching us about the local plants.

The weather was kind of cold during camp...but luckily it didn't rain on us.  It was supposed to, but it didn't.

Friday the camp was held at Mirror Lake:

Where the girls got to go rafting...

70 girls in rafts...luckily everything went well with that...  The girls had a wonderful time!

I didn't help with the rafting.  (I didn't want to...)  I wanted to help at the shooting range instead. (Yes, I would rather help girls shoot guns than help them rafting...)

The girls I helped with shooting were REALLY good...and they had never shot a gun before!

Friday afternoon we played some games...

I was in charge of some of the games.  We didn't play nearly as many as we thought we would.  The girls just wanted to play in the water.  So we let them!

Friday night there was a dinner for the girls and their families.  I helped with the dinner preparation.  I cut potatoes and made the beans.

All of those dutch ovens are FULL of potatoes...we did a lot of cutting!

And I made a ton of beans!

Whew!  What a week!  Camp was really fun...but I'm not sad it's over.  :)