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by: Leighton, Michelle MLeighton@seic.com
(7/6/05)
We just got back from Girl's camp.
We called it Camp Restoration and each day we focused our theme on
restoring something different. The first day was restoring reverence,
we also had restoring kindness, friendship, testimony, love, and faith.
Here is a little more information on
what we did at camp. We do camp at a stake level every year and we hold
camp at a Girl scout camp so we have a dining hall where we can do some
of these things. I know they will not work for everyone.
Since our theme was restoration we had some activities around pioneer
time. When the girls went to do sports they did stick pulls, tug-of
war, potato sack races, etc... For crafts they made leather bracelets,
and did "gold leafing" of pictures of the savior. (This was done by
copying the pictures onto a transparency and then gluing crumpled gold
tissue paper to the back. The girls them put a design on their frame
and wood burned the design.)
Since we do camp on a stake level and the girls are divided by level
even for sleeping the certification leaders have night time devotionals
around the theme of the day. Also when the girls met with their wards
for ward time devotionals were given based on the theme. Also each
level had a name based on something to do with the restoration. All
levels had mail boxes for secret sister gifts but one level leader
really went all out and created a Liahona for the girls to put their
secret sister gifts in.
Some other ways we tied in the pioneer theme was by having a movie night
and watching The Work and the Glory, Had home made root beer, Made
home made ice cream, Theme night we had the leaders and YCLs put on this
great performance where they read short monologues as if they were the
women from that time, and then the choir sang songs, and we had quilts
set up for them to tie (We do quilts every year and donate most to
charity at the end of camp.)
We had restoring testimony on Bishops night since the last thing we do
that night is break into wards and have testimony meetings at a camp
fire. On the day our theme was restoring kindness anytime someone was
seen doing an act of kindness for someone else they were given these
little kindness coins that had been purchased from oriental trading. The
stake Camp director glued pins to the back of them so the girls could
wear their coins.
Another thing that the stake did was order those little rubber bracelets
that are all the rage right now with Camp restoration 2005 stamped in
them. The girls went wild over these and all the YW in my ward wore
theirs to church the next Sunday.
Here is the link:
http://www.reminderband.com/
Camp
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