Grace Adventures Day Camp

Monday, July 23, 2012

Week 3 - 2012

What a great week! Lots of fun, lots of smiles, lots of happy staff and campers! Here are some of the favorites from the week.

Our favorite time of the day is Assembly where we praise God and see a Bible story skit.

At Sports Specialty one of the favorite games to play is soccer.

At Art Specialty one of the favorite activities of the week was paper mâché masks.

One of the favorite activities in Lego Specialty was building the tallest tower.

Of all the places to play at camp, the woods is the favorite by far.

Favorite thing to do at Water Play? Throw water on a counselor, of course!

But above all, more than outdoor activity at camp, the Water Slides are at the top of everyone's list!

Interested in seeing more pictures from Week 3? Check out our Facebook page.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Week 2 - 2012

It was another fun week of camp here at Grace Adventures!

Our fun dress-up day was Dress Like A Superhero Day! Perfect for our Super Hero themed summer.

Sports Specialty was #1 (at least they felt like #1).

Art Specialty got their fingers messy.

Outdoor Exploration got in touch with nature.

The water slides were FAST!

And Water Play was a blast!

We loved hanging out with your kids this past week!

For more pictures from Week 2 check out our Facebook page.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Week 1 - 2012

What a crazy, fun, challenging, unusual camp week!

The first day of camp was canceled due to the power outages after the east coast derecho. The second day was fun, lots of fun! The 100+ degree weather kept our schedule hopping and everyone adapted nicely.

Our theme is Super Hero Summer and the heroes for Week 1 were David, Ruth, Jonah, Daniel and Jesus. We learned that we can find heroes in unlikely places. God gave the heroes special strength to show us His love and then he gave us the ultimate Super Hero - Jesus!

Our camp activities included playing outside...

...working on art projects...

...sliding on the waterslides...

...exploring in the woods...

...and dance, dance, dancing.

It was a great week and we're definitely looking forward to Week 2!

For more pictures from Week 1 check out our Facebook page.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Staff Training - 2012

We have the GREATEST staff this year! Seriously, they rock.

Staff training ran for five full days this year. We started each day with an hour of praise, worship and prayer followed by an hour of team time and an hour of Strengths training. Each camp counselor took the Clifton StrengthsFinder test and found out their top five strengths. We were so lucky to have time each day to work on personal and team development!

Each afternoon we spent time in formal training, team building and general getting-ready-for-camp activities.

We learned to play some of the camper games.

And we set up for assembly time.

It's difficult to pick a favorite part of training but the best pictures definitely came from team building.

After beating the smaller Water Pipe Challenge in record time the staff attempted the never-been-beaten extra-huge-more-holes-than-we-have-fingers Water Pipe.

When they finally beat it they were SO EXCITED!! The celebration lasted a full five minutes.

The triumphant HEROES!

The very last day of training was the Fun In The Sun picnic. We invited the campers to come have fun and meet their counselors.

There was water play.

Face painting

Snowballs

And camp songs.

Camp training ROCKED... but we're excited for camp to begin!

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Week 5 - 2011

Our final week of camp was full of mixed emotions. We had a great time but we were sad to say goodbye at the end of the week. Check out all the fun we had!

Aboriginal paintings in Art