Ideas anyone?

[PHATchik]

I'm planning on working at a day camp for girls this summer. Tomorrow at 3 p.m., I meet with the director. I am supposed to have some ideas of classes that I could have with the girls. THe ages range from 6-16. They will be grouped by age. Does anyone have any ideas they could share with me to take to her tomorrow? I would appreciate all the help.

 

[danielson]

ummm....given that they are girls, what i would like to do at that age is probably not relavant and might scare you

what are girls that age interested in? maybe you could give them a talk on life skills, like how to properly write a letter or fill out a cheque/forms , or first aid or cookery or sewing or a histpry talk

 

[PHATchik]

Thanks Danielson. And no no no, they aren't all in one class. That's the ages of the girls at the camp. They are grouped into different classes and activities by age. I'm just not sure what ages I will be dealing with.

 

[alphaxi]

What kinda day camp is this exactly? Like an afterschool thing? Do you have any limit to what you can do with these girls (materials wise...like do you have access to a variety of different things/equipment/resources/etc?)

 

[PHATchik]

During the school year, it's an afterschool program for the girls. I volunteer there every week. However, during the summer, it's a day long program for the girls, where they have different little classes. We take them on little field trips. They go swimming, to the library, etc. We have a variety of materials to work with, and I suppose more can be bought if needed.

 

[Pink Space Biscuit]

Making lipgloss is totally girly and fun and easy. There are tons of web recipes and you just need candy oil for flavor and old lipsticks if you want to tint it.

 

[PHATchik]

Well, if I know girls, they like to learn about/talk about themselves. I had a project in a communications class once where we made a time capsule out of a grocery sack. We had to collect words/pics/images form different sources to glue all over the bag. I had pics of athletes, my track ribbons, a grand piano, words pieced together to make m favorite quotes, some chemistry pics (I was in to bio/phys), pics of my favorite models/singer/acrtors, etc... At the end of the class, we each got up and explained why we chose the collaged pics that we did for the bag, and people asked questions.

I still have the bag, to this day, and keep all my writings, awards, medals, etc...inside it.

I love it. THat will definitely be raised as an activity for the girls. However, I still need to think of some things that could take a good little amount of time to serve as a class. THat could be presented as part of a Girls are Great type thing or something.

 

[alphaxi]

I was gonna suggest something similar to Spattersons idea! Any type of art projects would be good....music activities...sports(tennis, volleyball, karate, any type of physical fitness)...nature walks...cooking classes...storytelling/writing workshops...just some ideas! I dont know how well these will help...but I teach elementary school and have used all of these ideas in my class and they seem to work well! Good luck!

 

[PHATchik]

Thanks! I love the ideas. Any more that you all think of just let me know!

 

[PHATchik]

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