Rotate: Personal day camps work best if you can collaborate with a few other parents and rotate the days. This way, you get to have a few days of freedom while your kids are having a great time!
Keep it small: Have six campers at the most, unless you have a helper. Otherwise, things can get crazy.
Make a theme: Have a theme for the whole week or a theme for each day. These can range anywhere from western to outdoorsy to tropical. Have the kids dress according to the theme - this will make playtime even more fun.
Activity: Pick an activity that goes along with your theme. Cowboys can play with stick horses (brooms) and compete in a rodeo. Explorers should take a hike and keep their eyes peeled for exotic animals. Islanders can spend a relaxing day at the public pool.
Snacks: Adventurers always work up appetites! Serve something fun like "worms and mud," a.k.a. gummi worms and chocolate pudding, or "ants on a log" - celery stick filled with peanut butter and sprinkled with raisins.
Crafts: Build simple picture frames with popsicle sticks, make wind socks from construction paper and streamers, or decorate simple rubber flip-flops by painting or wrapping colored string around the straps.
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You are right, it is hard to handle a bunch of kids. Na experience ko yan, when I was still teaching. I had 60 to 70 kids in one classroom and everytime we go for a camping, even if the district encourage us to have lots of kids to registered the BSP and GSP, we only pick up few kids nga mga but an, kuyogon sa camping kay kapoy ug bantay.
ReplyDeleteI would love to send my to kids to camping!!I'm sure they'll gonna love'em!!\(^0^)/
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