For the first night of Girl's Camp we always like to set the tone of camp. We have found that doing a "walk" of some kind is something the girl's really enjoy and gives a great opportunity for us to introduce the theme in a fun and spiritual way.
This year we decided to do Sky High (you know like the movie?!) We found great inspiration from Sherri Dew's book "God Needs a Powerful People" and other resources. These were the 6 classes:
Super Hero Manual (Power in the Scriptures) English Teacher
Sidekick & Villain Training (Holy Ghost Vs. Adversary) PE Teacher
Super Hero Tech (Using Technology Wisely) Tech Teacher
Protecting your Identity (Your Origin Story) Design Teacher (Edna)
Super Hero Headquarters (Sanctuary) Shop Teacher
Combat Training (Power in the Atonement) Alumni
We asked leaders up at camp as well as a member of the Stake Presidency to be the teachers of these classes. We gave them this packet that our camp directory Coralyn Grant compiled, but encouraged them to make it there own and add personal touches. Each class was 10 minutes long with 5 minutes in between to walk. In total it was about an hour and half.
This is the object lesson that I did for the Sidekick and Villains training. I think the girls really loved it! In the class we talked about Elder Bednar's talk on how the spirit communicates with us. I equated it to these lights (see packet above) and had each girl tie a tag with her name on it to her own personal light bulb. I needed to figure out a way that the girls could access the lights but also make it possible for me to raise them out of the way. Luckily my awesome husband came up to help us prep he was able to rig the lights with a rope that went the span of the stage, we then were able to put the strands like a V, the center of the strand around the rope and then the two ends tied off to a railing on the back of the stage. We then were able to lower and raise the rope by leaving enough lead rope hanging down, there was a tall piece of wood on one side of the stage with a hole near the top, we thread the rope through and then anchored it at the bottom. In contrast you could have the girls do the activity and then string the lights in between groups.
For power we used Goal Zero solar generators, the lights only lasted about two hours because of the voltage but it was enough time for the activity. It looked so amazing! It was awesome knowing that each of the lights represented one of the girls! I think it was a highlight!
At the end of the night we handed out these floating lockets, we used shrinky dinks for our insignia and then placed jewels that were the Young Women value colors inside. I ordered them from DHgate here and here we got the 4 mmnyellow and gold beads from craft stores
This was a pin that the Language Arts teacher handed out
The lights at the end of the night, our Stake Young Women's President talking about the Atonement
You could use this for Young Women's in excellence or New Beginnings as well. It might be fun for Activity days too!
