For a majority of campers at the Woodstock YMCA they just wrapped up there 8th week of camp and I just wrapped up my 3rd week of camp. This week has been a wide variety of things from storm threats, to sweet crafts, fun times on the playground, digging in the sand, water games, and even an unwanted visitor!
The campers get to make some sweet crafts at camp. These horseshoes were painted by campers ranging in age from 4-6 and I must say they turned out awesome. I'm so pleased how independent the campers are in this age range and wanting to do more complex activities, crafts, songs during morning circle, and not needing as much help. A couple campers thought it would be a great idea to put a stick in the middle of the pictures to keep the wind from blowing the paintings away. I thought that was great, and it made it look more like playing horseshoes!
Ah storm threats are never fun for campers or staff. But we make the best of them, thankfully this week we didn't see any rain during camp hours (just some dark clouds) and the campers remained optimistic that the rain would hold off. Remember these are 4-6 year old campers thinking the rain isn't going to fall!!! If it does rain/storm the staff are prepared and have plans set for bad weather.
The campers love digging in the volleyball court, making sand castles, and best of all hearing them use there imaginations makes me smile. :) Now I wasn't able to get a good shot of the cool castles and prints the campers made. (They had destroyed everything by the time I got my phone out) I can tell you there were some cool things being made and most importantly the campers had a blast.
Friday is "Big Day" and we split into 3 big groups with about 20 kids per group depending on the numbers. Today during our wild wild west theme we were playing some cool games, roasting marshmallows, racing down the split n slide, and trying to keep the campers well back from this little guy in the picture above. Of course once word was out that a baby raccoon was up in a tree, awake and walking up and down the tree a lot of campers wanted to look, come close and try to figure out what it was doing. Staff was on the same page "GET AWAY FROM THE TREE WITH THE RACCOON IN IT!" They bite and carry nasty diseases that could harm anyone including a child. After a lot of telling the kids to stay away the nasty diseases line kept them away which was a good thing because this little guy DID end up coming down the tree and taking a stroll through the park. Thankfully the kids weren't around when this happened. For all I know the raccoon is up in a tree or maybe in a garbage bin somewhere getting breakfast. :)
Next week is the final week of summer camp for me and the kids. It has been a fantastic 3 weeks so fare and I've been given a lot of positive feedback from my co councilors and appreciate it. The feedback gives me confidence that a) I'm doing my job up to camp standards b) the kids are enjoying having me around c) I can dive into any situation without any questions being asked of me d) The Y family is a close tight net group that care for one another and have work extremely well together this summer! I'll be back with a final camp update latter next week once camp is done for another summer. :)
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