{Summer Camp 2012 World Tour} Germany

Last summer I introduced you to our annual summer camp tradition. Each summer several moms take turns hosting a summer camp day at their house. Whoever is hosting gets to pick the theme, comes up some with basic games and activities and makes lunch. Last summer I posted about Magic Day, Balloon Day, Bike Day, Water Day and Christmas In July. I think this is our 4th year of summer camp and we decided to each pick a country. We will be away at summer camp today but I wanted to share what we did at the last summer camp.

The first day of Summer Camp 2012 World Tour was about Germany! It was hosted in the country and we were happy that the weather ended up being a little cooler than expected. The kids had plenty of time to play outside.

Before we arrived the hostess gathered the supplies for making German flags and edelweiss hats.

The kids started out with the flags. They colored in a piece of a white paper, rolled a small wooden dowel on one end and secured it with glue and tape.

Then they worked on their hats. They taped 2 pieces of paper together and folded it into a hat!

After making hats we played a couple of games. In the first game, the kids were blindfolded and they had to crawl around on the floor with a wooden spoon in their hand. While the other kids shouted directions for which way they should go, the crawling child would swing the spoon back and forth until they hit the pot of candy. Once they found the candy, they got to pick a treat. In the second game, the hostess would read German words and the kids would have to guess what it meant. Whoever was the first to guess right got piece of candy.

For lunch we sausage wrapped pretzels, spaetzle (which is a type of egg noodle), salad, juice and cake! Those are the things written on the menu above. I forgot to take a picture of the delicious food we ate but there were some other items as well.

We had a great time and I look forward to showing you this week’s summer camp soon! Our country is going to be Australia! I’ve gotten some great ideas from my friend Anne who lives in Australia but I would love to hear your ideas as well!

What are some fun ideas for our Australian Summer Camp?

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Comments

2busy says:

July 26, 2012 at 5:27 pm

What a great idea! When my kids were little, we would have theme days during the summer. This helped us stay focused and do something productive with most of our days.

Christine Mack says:

July 26, 2012 at 11:45 pm

Vegemite. I double dog dare you to eat it for your Australian summer camp lol. I can’t wait to do this sort of thing when my girls are a little older. Too cool mom!

Anne @ Domesblissity says:

July 27, 2012 at 12:51 am

You could make Olympic gold medals because there’ll be a few of those going Australia’s way in the pool in London these next few days! LOL (Just kidding. You Yanks will whip our butts.) I agree with Vegemite. Every Australian kid eats it (well most of them – mine do). You could blindfold the kids and not tell them its coming. LOL You could print off some of our money and try to guess the Australian animals that are on them. Also listen to the sounds of some of the birds and print out pictures of what they look like. I just thought of you as I heard the kookaburras going crazy in my backyard. Wish I was there to give you a hand. Sounds like heaps of fun!

Anne xx

Michelle Paige says:

July 29, 2012 at 5:54 am

What a fun idea! I bet the kids love doing this! Australia ideas: charades with Australian animals: emu, koala, kangaroo, kiwi, etc. Or make puppets of the animals and have a puppet show using an Australian accent. How about running relays that involve kangaroo jumping, koala 4-leg crawling, emu flapping, etc. Are you planning on having boomerangs to play with? I can’t wait to see what you come up with!