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Camp Lunar

My kids are pretty creative and imaginative.  I love this about them.  As I type these words I can hear the three of them playing make believe that they are travelling the world on a hot air balloon, airplane and ship.  Because they have so many creative ideas I have mom guilt about not indulging their every whim.  I try to say "yes" to as much as possible, but I still say "no" plenty.

Sometime back in March or April Via made a poster for something called Camp Lunar and posted it in our dining room.  Of course it was a cute idea, but I don't think any of us thought it would happen.  Because these are exactly the types of ideas that don't usually happen.


After staring at this poster at every dinner for months I thought, "Why not do a version of this camp?  Why not just take an hour a day for one week and invite our friends over for Camp Lunar?"  So I reached out to the families on the street and they were all down to let their kids participate.  We modified the plan just a little bit and dropped off flyers.


Every day we did a quick welcome to Camp Lunar in front of the garage, and then went in the house for our daily "kick-off."  On the first day our big activity was tie dyeing t-shirts.  I had never tie dyed before, but it was so fun.  Now that I have done it once I want to do it again without also helping 7 kids at the same time.  Ha!





    








On the second day we did a nature theme.  For our welcome meeting we did "Going on a Bear Hunt" together.  Via had gotten journals for everyone and then drew pictures of different nature items and each kid found everything during the park scavenger hunt.  We had fun being outside together on a not-too-hot day.  For snack we had trail mix.






Day three was a first aide theme and also movie-making day.  We sang "Head and Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" for our welcome song.  Then Via had written a script for a movie and spent time shooting that movie.  We also talked about where we had gotten hurt before and then put Band-Aids in those spots.  We might have gotten a little carried away with the Band-Aids.  Popsicles were the perfect snack, because they always make you feel better.










Day four was dubbed "creative day."  We started out with "The Tooty Ta Song" and it was absolutely hilarious to watch the kids do this one.  After that we went over to the park and practiced signing a Camp Lunar song that Via wrote.  We played with model clay, and we made sculptures and structures with un-cooked spaghetti noodles and marshmallows.  







Day five we wrapped up with all the families coming over for pizza and movie night.  We had planned to read a Mulan book and then watch Mulan, but then all the kids decided to watch a different movie instead.  We wore our tie dye shirts, sang the Camp Lunar song, and debuted the movie the kids made.  It was a great way to finish the week.














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