Wilderness Camp
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| Day of the week | Outdoor Activities | Indoor Activities | Art/Craft | Food Snack | |
| Monday |
Or Create Hula hoop tents |
DIY First Aid Kits | Leaf Luminaries | Homemade granola | |
| Tuesday | Build a River | Camp Charades | Make a boat | ||
| Wednesday | Outdoor adventure Hunt |
Build a Forth with Blankets |
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Solar Smores | |
| Thursday |
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Tell Camp Stories | Spring time suncatchers | Campfire Pizza sandwich | |
| Friday | Go Camping In Your Backyard | Go Camping Inside | Bird Seed Ornament | campfire donuts | |
Outdoor Activities
Indoor Activities
Craft/Art Activities
Cooking / Snack Activities
Independent Exploration
Outdoor Activities
Outdoor Activities
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Tarp
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Rope or Elastic Ties (Bungee Cords)
- Hula Hoop ($1 each at Dollar Tree)
- Safety Pins
- Twine or Rope
- Tulle and/or Ribbon (Easy find in craft store dollar bins)
- Sheets
- Scissors
- Cushions and Blankets
- Clear plastic cup
- Tissue paper in red, orange, and yellow
- Liquid glue (I used Tacky glue because of its thickness, but regular school glue works too.)
- LED tea light
- Twig or thin craft stick
- Cotton balls
- Brown construction paper
- Scissors
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Fire Striker Or Matches
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Tinder: crumpled up paper bag, newspaper, Dry moss, dry grass, small dry wood shavings is dryer lint.
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Kindling: his can be small pieces of dry wood or actual small dry twigs and sticks. But they need to be small for our little flames.
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Fuel: Small to medium pieces of wood and last, you’ll put on regular pieces of firewood or log
Indoor Activities
- plastic container with sealable lid
- sharpies
- band-aids (different sizes and shapes)
- waterproof band-aids
- alcohol wipes
- moleskin
- hand sanitizer
- gauze
- cough drops
Tell Camp Stories
Craft/Art Activities
- Leaves
- Plastic milk jug or similar
- Contact paper US / sticky back plastic UK
- Scissors
- No flame tea lights US / UK
- twigs,
- string,
- a lollipop stick and
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some paper.Bow and Arrow
- 1/2 inch PVC pipe – 4 ft
- 1 swimming noodle
- 1 – 1/4 inch wooden dowel
- 2 small nuts (that you screw on a bolt, not the kind you eat! :))
- 1 nerf dart
- I use this string or something similar
- Spring time suncatchers
- Clear contact paper
- Scissors
- A pen or Sharpie
- Tape
- A large Mason jar lid (or something to trace circles with)
- A single hole-punch
- * String or twine
- Bird Seed Ornament
- 2 cups / 300 g / 10.5 oz birdseeds* (see note below)
- 1/4 cup / 40 g / 1.4 oz raisins, chopped
- 1/4 cup / 35 g / 1.2 oz dried cranberries, chopped
- 1/4 cup / 30 g / 1 oz peanuts, chopped
- 1/4 cup / 15 g / 0.5 oz dried apples, chopped
- 3/4 cup / 175 ml / 6 fl oz water
- 3 sachets unflavoured gelatin
- cooking spray or coconut oil
Cooking / Snack Activities
- ¼ cup of melted coconut oil
- ⅓ cup of raw honey
- ⅓ cup of almond butter
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon of salt
- ¼ cup of sunflower seeds
- 2 tablespoons of flax seeds
- 2 tablespoons of chia seeds
- ¼ cup of chopped raw almonds
- 2 cups (220 gr) of rolled whole oats
- 1 pound beef round cut into 1/4 inch strips
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- Cardboard pizza box
- Aluminum foil
- Plastic wrap or bag
- Black construction paper
- Tape
- Glue stick
- Pencil or wooden skewer
- Scissors or utility knife
- S’mores supplies: chocolate, graham crackers, marshmallows
- English muffins
- Pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Sliced pepperoni
- Cooking spray
- Oil for frying (about 2 cups is sufficient)
- Refrigerated biscuits (like Pillsbury’s Grands)
- Cinnamon and sugar (1 cup of sugar to 2 tablespoons cinnamon)
- Brown paper bag (like you would use to pack a lunch)
- Cooking pot (I used cast iron)
Independent Exploration
