Lunch Time!

Lunch time is a really cool part of our day at Camp Outer Limits.  Unlike previous summers all of our campers are able to eat in the same room together.  Before lunch starts campers have to stand over their chairs and wait to do the blessing.  Once we say the blessing it’s time for lunch to start.  After the campers are full and done eating lunch they have to “KP” their tables.  Campers find all the trash on the tables and on the floor and throw it away.  They even are allowed to get brooms and sweep the floors.  Campers also wipe down the tables after lunch.  It has been an amazing over-looked part of our day at camp, but we believe that our lunch time is a great time for campers to learn responsibility, specifically through cleaning up.  We think it’s working too, campers want to sweep and clean.

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A few words (and pictures) on Camp O traditions

What a Thursday we are having at Camp Outer Limits!  This morning started off with the messiest Would you Rather Thursday in Camp O History (videos will be posted a little later).  However we wanted to let you know about some new and old traditions we have a Camp Outer Limits.  The first is ‘Spin the Wheel’.  At Camp O spinning the wheel is a big deal.  Only 1-2 campers each morning are picked to come up and spin the wheel.  This is how we decide which counselors are going to get messy or participate in the daily assembly challenge.  Here are a few pictures of the lucky campers who have spun the wheel this week so far at camp!

 

Another continuing tradition at Camp O is Tank Wars.  Tank wars have been a part the summer at Camp O for the over six summers!  Camp 2 (rising 3 through rising 5) and Camp 3 (middle school) campers are charged with building a ‘tank’ from cardboard boxes.  At the end of the week the tanks are taken out to the field and campers have a great time throwing water ballons at one another’s tanks.  Yesterday and today were construction days.  The games will begin tomorrow during Camp Time (pictures will be posted!  Check back in tomorrow.)

 

As for the new traditions that we are building at Camp O we have began the KP Award!  KP simply means ‘Kitchen Patrol’.  Each day every huddle has morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack.  When snack or lunch is over we play a song to signal all our campers to begin cleaning up their trash.  The huddle with the cleanest table and floor underneath the table earns points that are tracked on the KP award board.  The huddle at the end of the week with the most points earns a prize for all their hard work keeping their area neat and clean.  The KP award helps us teach our campers the importance of being responsible not only to themselves but to the other campers in their huddle.

Ask your camper how their huddle is doing with KP!