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…
Survivor
Below are five ideas. Leave your suggestions in the comments area below.
- Divide your camp into multiple teams or tribes. Assign a color to each tribe. Then get each camper a “buff” of their tribe color. I get the solid color tubular bandanas from Tans Club.
- Create challenges and puzzles for the tribes to compete in.
- Instead of having campers “voted off” I keep score through out the week. After each challenge we have Tribal Council where each tribe votes for another tribe to lose 10 points. They cannot vote for the tribe that one the previous challenge (immunity). The team that gets the most votes loses 10 points.
- I hide a small golden Smurf somewhere in camp and each day I give the tribes a short poem that is a clue to where the hidden immunity idol (golden Smurf) is hidden.
- The campers love the gross eating challenge. You can get edible bugs from online candy stores and Amazon.
I did Survivor with my campers and for our gross eating challenge I had them eat baby food. It was perfect because it tastes/smells disgusting and is easy to find!
I used the Survivor board game to come up with a challenging teamwork motivator for our intermediate group. They had daily challenges and they had immunity challenges and all the activities were done as teams. I broke them down into 4 smaller teams and instead of kicking someone off the island, they had to go to make another team. when it was down to 2 teams then the winning team of a challenge got to take one of the losing teams members. Anyone they wanted, this kept on for a whole week. The individual challenge was to not change teams at all during the week. At the end of the week we had a big blow out party with a cook out, ice cream sundaes and just a day of fun.
@susan – What a great way to do it. Sounds like fun…especially the blow-out party!
Here is the “Survivor” game that our camp did during our Hollywood themed week: http://corduroysbutton.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/survivor-boys-and-girls-club/
Kids loved it!