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Pool Day in Eldo!

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

We had an awesome day at the pool in Eldorado Canyon today! We sang “Titanic” on the bus, and then began our day at Mesa Trailhead, where we sang “The Hippo Song” and “Let Me See Your Funky Chicken.” Then, we played an awesome game of Zebratonicus tag–ask your camper how it’s played! Each group then discussed how to be safe at the pool before heading off to the Eldorado pool at 10 .a.m.!

Once at the pool, everyone changed into their swimsuits, got a snack, put on some sunscreen, and headed up to the pool! After doing their swim screens, the campers had a great time swimming until lunch. They went off the diving board, played in the “hot tub,” and went down the slide! After lunch, the campers drank lots of water before heading up to the pool for some more swimming and craft time. Lots of campers had a great time doing lanyards, making yarn art, and creating some friendship bracelets! Other campers had a fun time in the pool, playing with the noodles. :)

At the end of the day, we changed back into our clothes and had some delicious watermelon for snack. Everyone was pretty tired from a great day in the pool! We finished up with some quieter afternoon songs, including ” I love the Mountains” and our standard, “On Top of Spaghetti.”

Tomorrow, we’re heading to Walden Ponds to fish and then back to Base Camp to climb on the MDC/AO rock wall! See you there!

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Boulder Creek

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Our final day of the week with our campers, and the last day of the summer for some of them, took us down to boulder creek.  Before we made it to the creek, we got a nice surprise of getting to use the rock wall for the morning.  The campers loved the wall, and we had some very successful climbers.  After climbing we prepared for our trek to the creek, making sure to put on lots of sunscreen for our very hot day.

Once we arrived at the creek we set up for lunch, making sure to find some shade to eat under.  After lunch we played a game of Ship/Island and Freeze tag, before playing on the playground for a short while.  After the playground we returned to base camp, for some quiet relaxing time.  We then moved into our craft for the afternoon, which was making snake puppets, which created some great play between the kids.  After our craft we got to eat GORP that was ordered by the Sleeping Dolphin Dragons.  With only a short amount of time remaining in our week, we all shared our favorite moments from the week before singing “On Top of Spaghetti” to wrap things up.

It was another great week in Juniors, but we are sad to see some of our campers leave for the last time this summer.  Luckily we do have some people returning next week and some new campers we are excited to meet!

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Juniors finish Dinos Chomping Plants with a bang!

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

The end of Dinos Chomping Plants week was amazing! We began our day with a weather report–unsurprisingly, most of the campers were a little cloudy because they were a little bit tired. We encouraged the sun to come out with some great morning songs, including “The Hippo Song” and “Fred the Moose.” After sunscreening, we headed over to the mini-meadow, where we played a great game of “Ship-Island” and also did some “Scream Runs.” The campers got to yell while running from counselor to counselor (a great way to get that energy out and going)!

Once we finished our morning games, we headed back to base camp, where we made some awesome dinosaur clay creations. Ask your camper to see their clay creation! We encouraged a dinosaur theme, but the kids were very creative and many chose to make their own projects. After finishing up our clay projects, we headed to the mini-meadow for lunch–it was delicious! Then, we headed over to our MDC rock wall for some climb time.

The kids had a wonderful time climbing–each camper got a chance to climb two times, and all of the campers did a great job of cheering on their friends when they were climbing. Our rock wall has fossils embedded in it, so it was a great chance to discuss fossils with the campers as well! After climbing (and going on a quick tooth hunt to find a camper’s tooth which had fallen out), we headed down to Boulder Creek Trail for some free play.

While we almost made it back to camp, we got caught in the rain a little bit–it was fun to run through the rain, though! Once back at camp, we had some quiet time and then ate our gorp (chosen by the Green and Yellow Stegosauruses group!). It was really yummy! After snack, we did some relay races to get our energy out, and finished off the day by discussing our rose and thorn for the whole week–each camper said their favorite and least favorite thing about the whole week. We ended with a quick game of “The wave” and with a rousing rendition of “On Top on Spaghetti.” What a great week!

Next week is Incredible Insects! We’ll see you then!

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Juniors visit the Nature Conservancy Park!

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

We began our day in Junior with some fun morning songs, including “The Hippo Song” and “The Alligator Song.” After slathering on some sunscreen, we headed over to the mini-meadow for a quick game of Ship-Island, after which we headed back to base camp to go climbing with Director Tommy! We climbed on MDC’s 26-foot rock wall–every camper got two turns! Ask your camper what to say when you’re coming down from the wall. You can see lots of awesome climbing pictures on our website.

After climbing, we packed up and headed out to the pool, eating lunch along the way. However, when we got to the pool, we discovered that the pool had gotten sick, i.e., had been biologically contaminated. While this was very sad, everyone did a great job of being flexible, and so we changed out of our swimsuits and headed to the Nature Conservancy Park at Pearl and Folsom. We had a great time playing on the play structure at the park–it was pretty hot, so we put on lots of sunscreen and drained our water bottles.

Once we were all played out, Director Tommy was kind enough to come and pick us up in the MDC van and take us back to base camp, where we had a little bit of cabin group time (The Pink Roses mixed their gorp!) and then had some quiet time, because everyone was pretty tired from playing all day. We ate the delicious gorp mixed by The Pink Roses, and then finished off the day with rose and thorn–each camper said their favorite and least favorite things about the day. We ended with a fun rendition of “On Top of Spaghetti,” and that was our day!

Tomorrow, we’re heading to Boulder Creek Trail for an awesome Friday! See you there!

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Juniors Climb, Play at Greenleaf Park!

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The junior campers’ day began with some fun, high-energy songs–we sang “The Fishing Song” and “The Swimming Song.” It was really fun to see how fast we could sing! After songs, we played some fun games with the webbing, including working together as a team to pull everyone to their feet using the webbing. Then, we headed outside to climb on MDC/AO’s mobile climbing tower! The tower has fossils embedded in it, so we got a chance to discuss fossils while climbing. Each camper got a chance to climb some different routes, and the Junior Leaders also got in some good climbing time!

After climbing, we drank some water, put on some sunscreen, and headed into base camp for a little cabin group time. Today, the E.M.D.D.’s made a group sign–it shows everything the group has done this week, and each section was created by a different member of the group. After finishing up that project, we headed over to the Mini-Meadow to eat some lunch.

We ate lunch while discussing pool rules, and then headed up to Spruce Pool. Unfortunately, the pool turned out to be closed! But everyone at camp did a great job at being flexible, and the campers decided that they would be okay going and playing at Greenleaf Park instead. So we headed to Greenleaf Park, and had some fun free play time on the child-safe play structure there, next to the Nature Conservancy. After putting on still more sunscreen, we headed back to base camp.

The trek back to base camp wore us out a little bit, so we headed inside to have a bit of rest time and to learn some more about dinosaurs. We learned that the biggest dinosaur was named Ultrasaurus, and that it was found in Colorado! We also learned that the smallest dinosaur was about the size of a chicken, which was exciting to learn. After having some quiet time, the E.M.D.D.’s headed outside to order the ingredients for their own mixture of gorp, which they’ll mix and eat tomorrow! After completing their gorp order, we had some delicious, pre-made gorp for snack, and finished up the day with the “Little Canoe” song and a quiet version of “On Top of Spaghetti.”

For our final day of Big-Toothed Dinos, we’re planning to make our own dinosaur fossils out of playdoh, and are also planning to trek down to Boulder Creek to have lunch and look for more animals (seeing squirrels today was a highlight of our hike!). We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

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