FIRST DAY CAMP OF 2012!!!!!

After a school year full of hard work and learning for everyone, I was ready to start Camp Kt back-up again ASAP and I'm sure the kids were just as ready for fun activities as I was! Therefore, last Friday at 10:30 AM I was ready to go with a fully planned out 2 and a half hour day camp! Friday's participants were as follows...

• My siblings: Abby, Sam, and Jordan
• 3 out of 4 of my cousins: Keegan, Delaney, and Maddie 
• And last but not least... Delaney's friend Jessie

The top three favorite activities of the day were as follows...

Art: Summer Activity Collage
What you need: Crayons or colored pencils and printer paper
What to do: fill the entire printer paper with a bunch of small pictures of summer activities (it doesn't need to be one big picture where everything flows together it should be a bunch mini sections of different drawings.)

Sports Game: World Cup/World Poacher
What you need: a couple of soccer balls, a soccer goal, which can just be a boundary marked off by cones or coats or whatever you have, and at least 3 kids for world poacher and at least 6 for world cup, although it's way more fun with more
What to do: Toss a soccer ball or two (depending on the amount of kids) out into the playing space and the kids have to try to get the ball and score. When you score step off to the side and wait for the next round. The last team/individual to score is out of the cup. In the final round (when there are two teams/individuals left in the cup) the first team to score wins!

Camp Activity: Six Flags
what you need: 12 cones or other objects
What to do: divide the playing space in half and divide the number of kids in half to create two teams. Create an end zone at the back end of each half and place six cones/other objects in each end zone. The object of the game is to get all 12 cones/other objects into your end zone at once. You do this by running into the other team's end zone and taking one cone at a time back to your end zone. Defend the cones in your end zone by tagging the players that run to your side to get them into jail. Once a player is in your end zone, you can't tag them until they come back out. Once a player is in jail, they can't get out until a teammate comes and tags them out (one person at a time).


I encourage all of you to try these activities with your kids because I'm sure they will enjoy them! Feel free to comment on your opinion of these activities. More activities coming soon!

Summer: So Close...yet so far

Summer is here! Although, it did seem like school dragged on forever... at least it seemed that way to me. I got out last Friday...Thank Goodness! But the last few weeks of school went by so slowly. Teachers were trying to cram every last bit of information into our heads before they released us to freedom! The suspense of summer made all the work seem a lot harder because everyone was ready to be done before our brains could explode! But, the work load slowed to a stop, life is got easier, and summer vacation finally arrived. I don't know if any of your kids feel all this stress or exhaustion, particularly the older ones, but if so I would recommend for them to keep working hard so all the work ends faster and the teachers ease up. My family and I left for Sunriver Resort in Oregon on Saturday and came home today. It was a great vacation! there were all kinds activities, such as hiking, biking, swimming, etc. One particularly cool thing we did was hike through a massive lava cave that was really deep underground. It was formed by a lava flow 100,000 years ago when Newberry Volcano erupted. Another really fun adventure was mountain biking down a volcano while stopping at many spots along the Paulina River. The water was freezing cold!!! But, it was still awesome because we got to swim, jump in, get carried out from under a waterfall by the current, and sliding down rocks with the current into deeper water! The weather there was nice throughout our entire stay :) I highly recommend Sunriver Resort as a place to go! I will be starting Camp Kt back up again really soon so keep checking back for new posts with Camp Kt activity reports.