Girl's Camp 2011 - take 2...

We started the first day of camp with my YCL's (Youth Camp Leaders) fluffing up all the pom poms we had made (about 50 of them). We then hung them from the ceiling of our main meeting room. They looked so festive and fun!

 Then we started off on our Amazing Race. Here are some of the "detours" and "road blocks" they had to perform (in Egypt they had to mummify one of their teammates)

 When traveling from one country to another, they had to travel in different ways such as piggy back, walking backwards, leap frogging each other, doing the Laverne & Shirley walk, etc.

 In India, they had to identify 10 spices just by smell.

 Our 1st team to come to the Pit Stop on the first day - we awarded the daily winners and then had a Grand Winner at the end of camp.

 My YCL's in the shirts I got them and put YCL on the sleeve in glittery black - they looked so cute and they all loved the shirts. We had 27 awesome YCL's this year!

 Making one of the crafts - rolled rose headbands. These were so cute and the girls could totally customize it to their taste. They also made initial pendants with genuine pearls hanging on a cute ball chain.

 Fun at the lake - jumping and being bounced off the BLOB! Some girls got seriously flight time!

 I asked two my YCL's to teach a Zumba class. We always try to put a fitness class in at camp. We've done yoga, pilates and now this year was Zumba - don't be fooled by the faces..they did really like it ;)

 Rock wall climbing - these girls are brave! We also had high ropes with a zip line at the end - scary!

 One night we had a Super Jam - World Tour (lip syncing show). I didn't know if they would like it but the girls got totally into it! Here's one as Justin Bieber - and the cute little one in black was the "rapper" - so awesome.

 A little of Enchanted - How do you know that she loves you? Loved it!

Girl's Camp 2011 - take 1...

I just got back from Girl's Camp - it was incredibly wonderful! The girls are so sweet and fun to see accomplish hard goals, learn, and try so many new things.  As Camp Director, I spend many hours during the year putting together camp but every second is worth the look on these young faces during the week.

This year our theme was

"My Amazing Race - to become a SOUL Survivor".

It came about because of the love I have for the Amazing Race show but it was really about the challenges we have in our lives. There are diversions at will attempt to lure us from our path. But it's our covenants that are the road signs to eternal life ~ becoming a SOUL survivor.

I just wanted to share a few of the goodies and things I put together for the girls. I'll post more in the next few days.

 These are the things each person got as they came to camp - 

Their lanyard with their passport & cute world charm, name tag, and song lyrics in it. They also got a bag of gumballs with the different level names, the daily schedule, and their Secret Sister envelope with her name.

This shows the passports inside. Each girl had their picture and info printed in - that tooks months to collect but was worth it. They had pages in there and they got stamped at each country they went to during our daily Amazing Race contest.

This was the Pit Stop carpet I made for the race each day. The teams ran to the pit stop to be checked in and awarded points for the day.

These are the nightly "pillow treats" we'd place on their bed each night. Those are always so cute to put together for them. I was influenced on the deer one by my cute friend Rebecca L. I love the chocolate animal cookies - I just told everyone they were deer cookies ;)