Camp Day

Today is the last day of school here and the kids are SO excited! I'm excited, too, since I won't have to get up at 6am tomorrow to get kids on the bus at 7am!! Now starts the summer and all the summer activities!

Our girls started going to camp when they were going into 3rd grade. It was only for 2 nights/3 days but it was scary to think about them being on their own during that time! We started practicing them washing their own hair and taking care of other bathroom needs all by themselves.

For kid's day that summer, we had a practice camp day! (All ideas came from a Family Fun magazine article)

I woke up the kids by singing (and that's worse than a bull horn!!) and they got up and got dressed and cleaned their room and then had breakfast and then we went right outside. We hooked up with the neighbors they joined us on and off for our camp day.

We started by having a mini-scavenger hunt. I gave each child a dixie cup and they had to find things that were small enough to fit in the cup...little flowers, grass, leaves, even bugs that might fit in it. We spent about 30 minutes walking around the yard and then we all dumped our cups on the driveway to see what we found...including bugs...fun!

Then we went inside and had a fun time dancing to songs.

Then we had some lunch and some rest time.

In the afternoon, we made campfire hats. We cut green foam into a hat, then put yellow and orange triangles to look like fire and then we glued sticks and pompoms on the end of the sticks to look like sticks with marshmallows over a fire. They were adorable!

We had a campfire snack starting with a blob of peanut butter, stick pretzels for the "wood" of the fire, tootsie rolls as logs, peanuts as rocks around the fire pit and candy corn fire. Also adorable.

At night, we had an actual cook-out with the neighbors, roasting hot dogs over the fire. What an awesome kids day! How can you prepare your little ones for summer events?