Today was the day of Badger Day Camp. I've added the link to the whole board not just 1 pin as this has most of the ideas that helped me to organise and run the day camp.
Although we only had 3 out of 5 children turn up they all had lots of fun and were very tired at the end of a long and packed day of activities.
We had 1 room set up as a campsite, with tents, Christmas trees, bears, bean bags as seats round the "fake" campfire and a small kitchen area with snacks and drinks. We had another room for crafts, games and activities. Some of the activities were done around the campfire.
During the day the Badgers made their own id badges, camp t-shirts, a noughts & crosses game from sticks and stones, they made camping lanterns from tubs, battery tea-lights and tissue paper flames and they made their own stick photo frame which a photo of them at the "camp site" was added to. They covered many things in short subjects including camp fires and how to get help and where they should go, maps and compasses, things they can and can't eat in the wild, the importance of hand washing especially outdoors and we used the units UV gel kit - they did really well at it. They also talked about things you can find in nature - animals, birds, plants etc and did an A-Z of them, after this we went on a short walk to the church gardens where we looked for items that we had talked about and they had a spectrum colour chart and needed to find things in nature for each colour.
After tea the Badgers and some of the adults got into their pj's, brought their blankets and torches and lanterns to the campfire where we had a camping story and sang some campfire songs, they then got into their sleeping bags to await the arrival of parents to collect them.
Each Badger was given a certificate for handwashing, a certificate of attendance and 2 old SJA Badger badges for hobbies and games. They will all be receiving their Adventure badge and certificate at our next presentation evening. It was a great day the Badgers were well behaved and all had fun, but it couldn't have happened without the help of the adults from the unit as well.
