Today at camp, we had a great time bringing our first week together to a close. Today we really started work on the shelter, but also had a great time with more arts and crafts on the porch.  In the morning, there were all sorts of things that needed to be done, so after our morning meeting and Xavy's daily weather report, we set right off.

While many kids went to go help gather fallen trees and de-limb them into logs for our shelter, others helped rake the floor and dig down a few inches on the inside of the shelter to provide the option to make a floor later to keep the bugs away.  While most kids worked at the shelter site, some stayed behind to do arts and crafts on the porch, some built a barometer to help with our daily weather report, some helped bake cookies in our solar oven, and others helped to build a couple of sun dials so we can learn to tell the time without watches or cell phones.

After lunch we played a lot of Capture the Flag. During quiet time we continued arts and crafts projects on the porch, and relaxed in the sun. In the afternoon we decided to continue our work on the shelter.  While the shelter group started to notch and lay down some of the first layers of logs, some kids stayed behind at the Land Lab to do yoga or make bracelets on the porch.  All in all the day was great fun and almost everyone made significant progress on one project or another.

Have a great weekend!

Alex