Theme-of-the-Day is a daily post where we ask readers to leave their summer camp ideas, using the day’s theme, in the comments section. What ideas and suggestions do you have for the Theme of the Day? What game, craft, apparel choice, theme meal, evening activity, special event, song, skit, or anything else would you do at camp if your theme was…
Storytellers
As always I will kick off the theme with five suggestions. Then it’s your turn to leave your awesome suggestions and ideas in the comments area below.
- For those campers that enjoy writing, give them a location, two character names and an animal and have them create a story no longer than 3-5 pages.
- For campers who enjoy film, break them into teams and give them a phrase and object that they all must use in their short film. Give them 48 hours to complete it and then show them to the rest of the camp at the camp film festival.
- For the actors, have them either tell a story or act one out in an original skit during campfire.
- For those that enjoy photography, have them tell a story using pictures. Then hang their stories in the dining hall.
- The artists can draw their story or illustrate the writers stories. They might enjoy creating posters for the short films.
Play Fortunately Unfortunately. It’s a group story telling game. One person is Fortunately and must begin the story, and every sentence they say has to begin with “Fortunately,…”. The next person is Unfortunately, and must begin each of their sentences with “Unfortunately,…”. You can have a lot of people play, or just two. The story gets created as you go. So, the first might start off “Fortunately, Amos found his psycho costume just in time for the beginning of counselor hunt…” and then the next person might say, “Unfortunately, the costume was missing the pants” and so on. This is a great game for walking between activities, or for general down time.
That seems like a great game. I love activities you can do anytime and anywhere. Thanks, Sylvia.