Operation Purple®
Camp!
Dates: Session 1: June 20th
- 25th
Session 2: August 1
st
- 6th
Session 3: August 8th - 13th
Ages: 8 - 12
Cost:
no charge
Sorry, but registration closed for these
camps on April 16.
Our Operation Purple®
Camps are specifically geared toward our younger summer campers in
military families. This will be an opportunity to be with other
military kids from all branches of service and parts of the state.
They will immediately get welcomed into our small camp community,
engrossed in activities, and be kept so busy they forget to miss home.
Like our other sessions, our biggest goals are
safety and friendships. We want kids to be comfortable, explore
new activities, learn new skills, and do things they can only do at
camp.
The Operation Purple sessions are designed to meet 5 goals:
To have children realize that, like their parents, they are
serving our country, too (military themed activities, rack ops, cabin
recall)
To have time for each child to be able to share things with
their cabin, and feel they are individually
known and important (cabin recall, the whole day too, but specifically
cabin recall)
To have an opportunity for your child to choose an
element of what they will be doing and intermingle
with other kids their own age (morning electives)
To have time for
your child's cabin group to come together as friends (afternoon cabin
time)
To have time for the all the kids in the session to be able to
meet other military kids in a fun environment (elective period,
afternoon cabin time, evening program)
GENERAL CAMP SCHEDULE
This is a
general outline for our Operation Purple Schedule. If we can make it
better - we are always open to change.
7:00 WAKE UP! Rise and Shine!
7:35 SQUARDRON
FORMATION/FLAG RAISING
8:00 BREAKFAST
8:45
Cabin and community CLEAN UP
9:00 ELECTIVE PERIOD 1 These
elective periods are new for 2010 and are designed to give campers a
chance a chance to intermingle with other campers their own age and
develop some skills specific to Lazy F
10:15 ELECTIVE
PERIOD 2 Electives for your session might include: challenge class,
climbing, the craft house, wilderness skills, field games, or archery.11:45
Wash hands and meet at the flag pole for lunch
12:00 LUNCH
12:45 FOB (Feet on Bunk) (a restful quiet hour for a nap or a letter
home)RACK OPS - Cabin discussions
1:45 CABIN
ACTIVITY TIME during this time the counselors have set out planned
activities to do as a cabin unit. Some of the activities will focus
around Operation Purple activities, while others might include: tackling
one of camp’s classic hikes, tubing on the creek, our awesome hillside
slip-n-slide, going through the challenge course as a cabin unit,
Challenging themselves on the Branding Iron climbing tower, tie-dying or
other arts and crafts, field games, orienteering, or about a dozen other
activities.5:15 Gather at the fire pit for some lively
singing and fun
5:45 DINNER
6:45 EVENING
PROGRAM - campfires, capture the flag, messy olympics, and more!
8:30 CABIN RECALL/ A chance for every camper to share about themselves
through guidedquestions and sometimes related to what’s going
on in their cabin. Example questions for a cabin group might be: “If you
could have any one super power, what would you choose and why?” or “If
you could have a meal with anyone - who would you choose and why?”
9:30 – 10:00 LIGHTS OUT and all quiet (time varies with age)
