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The document outlines nature-themed weekly activities for summer camp. Week 1 focuses on wildlife with animal charades, pin the animal in its habitat, and a jeopardy-style animal fact game. Week 2 involves survival skills like scavenger hunts, map reading, and fire building. Week 3 centers around natural dyes with plant collecting, tie dyeing, and origami. Week 4 includes kite making and flying and building structures to observe effects of wind. Week 5 consists of a scavenger hunt and plant and animal identification. Week 6 discusses different time periods and making snacks related to creatures of the past.

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The document outlines nature-themed weekly activities for summer camp. Week 1 focuses on wildlife with animal charades, pin the animal in its habitat, and a jeopardy-style animal fact game. Week 2 involves survival skills like scavenger hunts, map reading, and fire building. Week 3 centers around natural dyes with plant collecting, tie dyeing, and origami. Week 4 includes kite making and flying and building structures to observe effects of wind. Week 5 consists of a scavenger hunt and plant and animal identification. Week 6 discusses different time periods and making snacks related to creatures of the past.

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Week 1- Wonderful Wildlife

Monday: put all the animal cards in a hat and play charades. After
the animal is guessed by the group, take a moment to ask the
kids a fact about that animal. If they cant get it, ask the actor to teach/tell the others
what they read on the card.
Materials: Animal cards, hat/pillowcase
Step-by-step instructions:
1. Animal cards in the hat
2. Have a volunteer (or pick someone) to go first, have them reach into the hat (or
pillowcase) that you are holding reach in and draw a card, have them read the
facts on the back and tell them to remember it. (if you have 2 counselors, maybe
even do this but behind a wall).
3. Let the child act it out, aid them if necessary. (30 seconds)
4. If guessed, ask that child to name a fact about that animal (this child will also draw
next.) If they cant name a fact, have the actor child tell the guesser what they
learned
5. If not guessed, have the actor child tell the group what they were, and any fact
they read on the back of the card
Tuesday: Have the kids draw a forest on a big piece of paper and then hang it up. Use
sticky tac on the back of the cards and have the kids play pin the animal in its home
Materials: Big paper, markers/crayons, animal cards, sticky tac, blindfold
Step-by-step
1. Lay the paper out and have the group sit around it and draw a forest together.
Make sure they include trees, a field, and a stream.
2. Hang it up and let them look at it
3. Ask for a volunteer (or pick) (rock, paper, scissors if 2 children want to go) and
have them pick an animal
4. Blindfold and spin
5. Let the group verbally assist the participant towards the correct spot in the woods.
Wednesday: Place all the cards face down in a 5x6 grid, upside down. Split the group in
teams and play jeopardy. The clues are the facts inside the cards.
Materials: Jeopardy Board (see below), scorekeeper (you), coin
Step-by-step
1. Present the board and topics
2. Make 2 teams, get team names, record
3. Coin toss to see who goes first
4. Let them choose a topic and amount, go to board and keep animal hidden read
clues let them guess, if won award points, if lost chance to steal.

5. Let the other team go next. Alternate until board is clear.


Thursday: Go out to a field space, have someone be a golden rod seed. Play blob tag.
Talk about the dangers of invasive species. If extra time, go find golden rod and de-root
it.
Friday: Hunters and deer. Go to a wooded area and split into 2 teams, hunters and deer.
Deer are turned to hunters if tagged; hunters are turned to deer if 3 deer surround a
hunter. Have clear boundaries. For younger children: turn this into duck duck goose,
but, deer deer hunt.
Jeopardy Board
Reward Invasive
Native
Endangered
Humans
200
Golden rod Crow
Karner Blue
Pollution
400
Giant
Raccoon
Tiger
Hunters
Hogweed
Salamander
600
Gypsy moth Dandelion Mud Turtle
Park
Rangers
800
Northern
Milk
Short Eared
Scientists
Snakehead
Snake
Owl
Fish

Week 2- Survival Week


Scavenger hunt could work here too. Work on coordinates and compass skills as well as fire
building skills and campfire cooking. Go over medicinal and edible plants.
Monday: The counselor has the first clue. It reads something like, exit through
the back door, walk 30 steps to the north west.
Week 3- The Art of Nature- Print all links
Rainbow Garden! Maybe we could take this week to start a new garden. Spend MondayTuesday digging and turning soil, Wednesday picking out which plants (flowers, vegetables)
they want, and where/how they want it, and planting? Have a fancy garden back to school
party at the end of the summer in the garden. Materials: Seeds, shovels, garden catalogue
Monday: planning. See what flowers they want and how they want it arranged.
Tuesday-Thursday: Tilling digging.
Friday: planting
We could also: start colored carnations! Week-long. Alternatively
Monday: talk about natural dyes http://www.pioneerthinking.com/crafts/craftsbasics/naturaldyes.html. Heres a great site about natural dyes. A tie dye project
will take longer than an hour, but here you go

Materials: pots and pans with color indicators (maybe dot stickers?), plant matter,
knives, measuring cup, water, stove, strainer, vinegar, salt, rubber bands, white clothing
1. Go in a group and collect lots of plant matter into the color coded pots. (See color
chart below.) Be sure to tell the kids not to take the whole plant, only 2/3 so that
it can regenerate
2. Come back and make the dyes in the kitchen. 2:1 ratio water to plant matter. Boil,
and then simmer for one hour. Strain and store.
Tuesday:
3. Teach tie dye twisting and rubber band
http://www.prochemical.com/directions/Folding.htm
4. Add fabric to the fixative and simmer for an hour. Rinse the material and squeeze
out excess. Rinse in cool water until water runs clear Salt Fixative (for berry dyes)
1/2 cup salt to 8 cups cold water. Plant Fixatives (for plant dyes) 4 parts cold water
to 1 part vinegar.
5. Soak the fabric in the dye, overnight for best results.
Monday-Tuesday: ORIGAMI is a good activity to do while simmering
Materials: Origami paper, http://www.origami-instructions.com/ (any of these, stay
nature related)
Wednesday: potato stamps!
Materials: cookie cutter, potatoes, paint, paper, knife
1. Cut many thick slices of potatoes
2. Have the kids grab a slice and any cookie cutter, cut the potato
3. Dip in paint, stamp out a picture
Thursday: bracelet making with grasses and dandelion,
Friday: this cool hardboiled egg activity (plant stencil, pantyhose cover, boil in
natural die)
Materials: Eggs, old pantyhose, onion skins, small thin leaves, example egg.
1. Collect leaves that are favorable shapes for stencils. Dandelion works great Show
the example egg.
2. Come to kitchen. Get egg wet and arrange small leaves with wet fingers; it should
stick to the egg.
3. Wrap the egg tight in pantyhose
4. Place the eggs in a pan. Add a handful of onion skins. Cover with cold water.
Bring to a boil. Once boiling, turn off the heat, cover the pan, and let it sit for 15
minutes.
5. Then, scoop out, cover with cold water, let sit for 15 more minutes
6. Unwrap, rinse. Viola! Can also be eaten.

Week 4- Up, Up, and Away!


Monday: Make your own kite? You can buy kits online for about $20/dozen kites.
Materials: Kits, paint, markers, beads, glue
http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=28796
Assemble and fly
Tuesday: http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-wind.htm
Ask the kids what blows in the wind; write it down with markers on a board. Then, make these
structures. Tuesday, go on a long hike and hang them up in good spots. Wednesday take them
down, and examine.
Week 5- Fantastic Forest
Scavenger Hunt?
Id like to come up with a leaf/plant identification activity. Maybe make a big board with
plant names on it and then have the kids collect samples, read about them and then
match the sample with the correct name. Spend one day with trees, one with grasses
and weeds, on with flowers, one with animal tracks and feathers, and one with rocks?
Week 6- Creatures of the Past
Spend one day a week talking about a certain time period. How about a week long
snack making course?

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