Activity Day Camp 2012

Saturday August 4th was our Stake Activities Days Day Camp.  The camp was for all girls ages 8-11 in the stake and their friends.  We had 70 girls pre-register.  It was held at Cascade Park.  The primary theme for 2012 is "Choose the Right".  We tweaked that theme to "Choose the Light" for our camp.  We chose a day that turned out being the first day over 80 degrees in 11 months.  It ended up being the hottest day in the Puget Sound since 2010!  We were all really feeling the heat!  The camp had a slip and slide right next to our area.  I bet a lot of girls were wishing we'd chosen that as one of our classes.

We used the first half hour, when we knew girls would still be arriving, as a campfire.  We asked our older daughters who were one day back from girls' camp to teach the younger girls songs.  We'd planned on having a campfire but the day was already so warm at 9:00 am that although the wood and cardboard was ready to go, we chose to not light it.  This photo was taken at 9:10.  It's a good thing we allowed for a long start since you can see not very many girls were there yet!

Lydia Yancey, Elizabeth Dickson, Anastaya Dickson, Rae Lee Yancey, Tony Nieman

After our campfire, the girls got into their groups.  We'd divided out the girls so that each group had a mix of ages and wards.  Each group received the same color t-shirt to wear.  The first thing they did was decorate a flag for their group to carry around.  Then they rotated through 6, 45 minute classes.

The six classes were:

"Sharing the light"

Sister Mary Levesque helped with the class.

A service project for Cascade Park.  The girls got to ride in this trailer to the area where they were watering trees.

"Follow the Light"

Sister Heather Griffin taught the class.

The girls used GPS devices to do a treasure hunt.  They learned how the scriptures act as a compass or GPS in our lives, giving us direction.

"Shoot for the Light"

Brothers Bill Colburn and Steve Edmonds kept the girls safe.

The girls got some BB Gun instruction and got to learn how they need to set goals and aim for them.

"Shining Examples"

Sisters Tamara and Shelby Hintze did a wonderful job teaching this class.  

They began by sharing with the girls how many different types of light are like the savior.  Then the girls got to make a craft.

The girls made these glow in the dark "lanterns".

They filled them with scripture verses about light.  

They were told when they saw their lantern glowing, it was their reminder to take a scripture out and read it.

"Choose the Right"

taught by Lisa Johnson

The girls played several different games.  In this game, they had to make it across the field stepping only on the paper plates. Each girl had one paper plate and they needed to pass them forward as they went.  They also played Twister and with a large cage ball.  As the day heated up, later groups opted to go down to the river and dip their feet in to cool off.

"Beacons of Light"

taught by Ron and Betty Olcott

A cooking class where they made bannock (biscuit on a stick) and rolled it in butter, cinnamon and sugar.  They also talked about how temples are beacons of light and bring nourishment to our souls.

Enjoying lunch.  Our high council member over Primary, Alan Pehrson, organized some helpers to prepare  BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, veggies, and watermelon.  The girls sat at tables that coordinated with their t-shirts.

hard at work prepping lunch

We had three riddles the girls could solve.  If they solved them, they got a kiss (Hershey's)

Can you solve them?

Easy:

I can not exist without light, but when light lands on me, I take flight.

What am I?

Medium:

A REBUS, also known as “Frame Game” or “Word Picture Puzzle”, is a picture representation of a name, word, or phrase. Each "rebus" puzzle portrays a common word or phrase.

Can you guess what it is?

Knee

Light

Hard:

You live in a three story building. In the cellar there are three light switches, in the attic there are three responsive lights. You have to find out which switch belongs to which light.

There are a few restrictions though: You can't see anything at the outside from the cellar where the switches are. You are alone, normal, human, etc. You do know however that from the beginning all the switches are in the "off" mode. You can only go up once to check the lights in the attic. Then you are allowed to go down to the cellar and you must know which light switch belongs to which light! 

Good luck!

We gave each of our leaders a thank you treat.  The warm weather meant eating the chocolate was more like eating go-gurt.  The label said, 

Matthew 5:16, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify to your Father which is in the heaven.”

Thank you for sharing the light of your testimony with the girls at Activity Day Camp 2012.

Closing ceremony

Giving their group cheer at the closing ceremony