Blast from the Past Girl Scout Day Camp

Tyra, Dinah, Chloe spent the last three days at day camp. I helped out yesterday and today. This year’s theme was “blast from the past”. Wednesday they got to make some bracelets from ancient Egypt, and necklaces from ancient Rome, and they came home with some constellation charts. I really don’t know too much about those activities because I wasn’t there. Yesterday we had activities from the medieval period. They got to participate in a Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

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I got to help girls with a catapulting game, while my companion supervised the jousting.

Today the girls got to do activities relating to the 1920’s forward. I was at a “20’s games” station so the girls got to play hopscotch and jump rope.

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Partway through the day, I was asked to help at the photo-op station. I guess the person taking the pictures for the first part of the day ran out of space on their SD card, and they saw that I had a camera and asked me if I could take over. That was fine with me and it ended up being a good thing because it meant that I got to take the pictures for Tyra’s and Chloe’s groups which also included some of the other girls from my troop. 🙂

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Dinah’s group must have had their pictures taken before I was asked to take the pictures. We finished each day with a friendship circle:

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The girls had learned the Charleston and practiced it as one of their stations today and after today’s friendship circle the girls got to do it all together.

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Dinah’s Lost Tooth

Dinah literally lost her tooth tonight. We were downstairs watching the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, with Danny Kaye, and Dinah kept fiddling with her tooth. Kyle and I kept telling her to stop messing with it, since it was dark and we were watching a movie and we didn’t want her to pull it out until we were back upstairs and getting ready to go to bed. She didn’t listen, and popped it out, and then she dropped it. We spent quite a bit of time after the movie was over searching the room for the missing tooth, but we didn’t find it. Now Dinah is one very sad little girl. We know she popped it out because she was excited about having the tooth fairy leave her a dollar, but now she has no tooth to leave under her pillow because she didn’t wait until after the movie to pull it out like we asked her to. 🙁

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World Thinking Day

Today I got to go with the girls to world thinking day. Our troop learned about Lichtenstein this year.

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I feel silly that I didn’t even notice that the girls had misspelled Lichtenstein on our troop poster, until I was looking at these pictures.

The girls got to paint masks at Australia, make flowers at Mexico, go fishing at Canada, and make teacups at England. They also got to eat pretzels at Germany, and dreikoenigskuchen (three kings cake) at Lichtenstein, and drink horchata at Mexico.

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I love this picture of the girls in a friendship circle with the banner of flags in the background.

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