Girls Camp 2013 Wrap up

Our camp was scheduled to be June 18-21st - but we got a call on June 11th from the camp asking where we were!! 

They were expecting us that day (a week early) - WHAT?!  

So we all rallied and got most of our girls to camp with only 6 hours notice!!  I love our leaders!

Our theme was "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"  These are the goodies bags everyone got when they registered.  It had their name lanyard, the schedule, their Secret Sister name, the camp song lyrics, a lollipop treat and a theme-inspired print out.  

 They also got their "Value Pills" (Skittles) 

 A couple of the pillow treats this year

 We usually give out a necklace to the girls each year according to our theme.  We got them large compasses so they can be reminded of the Places They'll Go in life

I gave my teachers these goodies for preparing wonderful classes. I put their photo on "Fox in Socks" and put it on the yummiest shea socks from B&B works

Our camp crafts this year - paint chip bookmarks. They stamped all sorts of designs on their picked out colors and then attached the Dr.Seuss quote on the back and tied their fluffy ribbon on top. We made a double braid headband - those turned out so cute. We had about 7 different fabrics all ripped for them to chose from.  The girls also make this cute braided hemp twine bracelet with heart charm.

Our t-shirt this year. They printed up a little more neon than I had designed - but everyone liked them that way :)

 I had made and laminated about 15 hot air balloons with all the Places You'll Go throughout life (college, mission, motherhood, Temple, marriage, workplace, etc). We hung them all up in our main room - they looked super cute.

 Some of the room doors had Dr.Seuss themed characters and poster on them. We also had a cute "mailbox" envelope on each door this year for the girls to put notes in for each other.

It's kind of hard to tell how cute this hall was with all the colorful ribbons and bows tied to the posts!

We had a great camp and I'm so grateful that I had everything prepared way ahead of time since I had a week less time to prepare.  I was able to just pack up my van and get to camp with the girls!! 

Camp Leader Meeting

Last night we had our last Girl's Camp meeting for the year!  I can't believe camp is in just a couple weeks!! We went over all the crucial information dealing with camp and had yummy treats, of course!

I made up bags of M&M oatmeal cookies for my leaders to snack on while we talked :)

 And to doubly thank them for all their efforts, I made them these candy bar sleeves and passed them out at the end of the night.  I love making fun stuff for the leaders - they are awesome and make camp happen!

Girls Camp continues...

Every year I have our Youth Camp Leaders come to my house to prepare for camp. This is the invitation I made for them (Dr.Seuss themed). We have lunch, make room signs, put together kits, train the girls, and just have a fun time :)  I love my camp YCL's!!

Girl's Camp 2013 Kickoff

 Last night was my camp kickoff meeting. I announced our new theme for Girl's Camp 2013 - "Oh, the Places you'll Go!"  It's from the Dr. Seuss book - we'll be focusing on the journey the girls have in this life and all the "places" they'll go.

Here are a few pictures of the treats I made for the leaders at the meeting.  

I always think a water bottle is cuter with a new label!  I'm using hot air balloons as a main focus - so I made these little balloons for the cupcakes and stuck them in a marshmallow cloud :)

Here are my little treat bags all ready to head off to the meeting!  I made these to house Hershey's Kisses and M&M's in them - one can never have too much sugar ;)  

Below shows the back of the bag and the polka-dot side.

I found these tote bags below and couldn't resist getting one myself & each of the ward camp directors!

I love being the Stake Camp Director (my 5th year!) - it's so much fun being with our beautiful young women and making all these treats and fun things for them!! 

Girl's Camp 2013 Peek

I'm going full force on Girl's Camp this time of year. Here's just a little teaser I made today - I can't wait! 

Girl's Camp FUN 2012

Girl's Camp was so much fun - like always :)  What a great time spent with the Young Women of our Stake. Our theme "Spark Your Spirit" focused on inner beauty and really touched the girls. I look forward to next year - I already have the theme picked out! 

 My SPARK sign actually hanging at camp!

 I had pinwheels all around camp and they made it through the all-day thunderstorms!

Cute pennant banners outside the rooms

 One of the BEST camp leaders - we love Dodie!!

 This was skit night - the leaders putting on a skit about looking for the inner beauty in others :)

Cute first year girls at skit night

 This was a super fun game that we played when it was pouring rain. The girls had to go fill a pillowcase with random things from their rooms and then had to compete doing different assignments. They had to make one girl into a super hero - they were super creative!

Then they had to make one of their group members into Pikachu - I thought this was very creative with all their yellow items!

 The lake is the most fun part of camp - the BLOB is awesome!

 Love the huge aqua slide and water trampoline

 The girls weaving their paper covers for their journal craft

 Making cute finger weaving bracelet/anklets

 Girls in a Bollywood Dance class

Zip line after making their way through a high ropes course - BRAVE!

 My cute YCL's leading the girls in some fun! I love how their t-shirts turned out

 CRAZY HAIR show - this was amazing :)  Even super shy girls took part and had so much fun :)

 One of our adult leaders - awesome triple spiked hair!

 The girls got really creative - using cups under the hair as foundations

 The striped shea socks that I had packaged for my core leaders - so comfy :)

The ending night after testimony meeting. We had long sparklers for all the girls and had five leaders spelling out SPARK with theirs. I LOVE this picture!

Girl's Camp gift...

For a select group of ladies who helped me so much at camp - I packaged up some of my favorite Shea Socks from Bath & Body Works and lotion in a cute polka dot bag.  The socks were the perfect color - aqua & white stripes. We looked so cute all together wearing them and just visiting in our cabin :)

Girls Camp 2012 SPARK

I just got back from Girl's Camp 2012 - SPARK Your Spirit!

It is the best few days of my year! Being with the girls in our church is so amazing and uplifting.

Here are some of the preparations I did before I left. I like to keep things under wraps as a surprise for the girls - so even though many of these were designed months ago, I can finally post them now :)

I'll post actual camp photos after I catch up on some sleep!

The goodie/registration bags each girl & leader gets when they check-in 

 100+ bags lined up ready to go!

 Each bag was named and in the level color of the girl

 This is what's inside: Our theme inspiration note, the camp song lyrics, the daily schedule, their lanyard (1st years was this raspberry pink color), a headband of their level color, their secret sister envelope, a "prescription" with Value Pills (see below for a closer picture), and their welcome note telling them their level's name with some gum :)

 This year's pillow treats - everyone gets one each night on their pillow before bed :)

 I made a bunch of these pinwheels in all different colors. I laminated them since they'd be outside all week - we had a heavy rainstorm that lasted the whole first day. My pinwheels held up and were cute all week!

 Made a handful of these paper starts to hang up in our big conference room - they were really cute hanging with colorful streamer, tissue lanterns, etc.  (I'll post more pics later) 

 Little thank you's that I gave out to the adult leaders. I love these Lilly Pulitzer cracker boxes and they went perfectly with my pink vintage/girly carnival theme :)

Our Youth Leader t-shirts. I love having them in bright tie-dye shirts the first day so the other girls know who are their youth leaders easily.