Camp Conejo's 2014 theme was Surfin Safari. We expanded to two sessions this year and my Program Director, Mindy Hostetter created an amazing program. Workshops included: Etiquette, wood working, archery, rain sticks, ukulele, hula, Irish Dance, Square Dance, Hip Hop Dance, martial arts, acting, Improv, message in a bottle, sand art, rock painting, camping, golf, computer programming, sit upon scrap booking, cartography, healthy living, tennis, tons of crafts, camp carnival and more.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE WORKSHOP:
Read the history of the Message in a Bottle (below) to the kids • This week every kid at camp will write a letter to another camper (they will not know who will receive it) Make sure they do not write, “Dear ___”...start the letter with “Hello”, etc. • If you are working with young children that can’t write yet, please write the letter for them, but have them tell you what to write. • Encourage kind words. You can give them prompting sentences if they are in the younger groups. For example” “My favorite thing at Camp Conejo was.....” Or “I will never forget....”. Have everyone use their name and age or grade and where they go to school. Example sentence, “Hi! My name is _____, I go to Lang Ranch Elementary and I am a 3rd grader.” • On the last day of camp, all of the bottles will be displayed in sand pools and each child will take one on their way out. • Please have the kids put some sand in their bottle (basic beige sand), followed by a couple mini seashells and their rolled up letter. Have each tribe tie a different colored ribbon around their letter. Then close the bottle and tie a raffia bow on the neck of the bottle. The different colored inside ribbons are important because we don’t want the kids getting a bottle from someone in their own tribe. We will instruct them to pick a different colored bottle then they made. Please use the correct ribbon for each tribe that is marked accordingly. Fragile as it is, a well-sealed bottle is one of the world's most seaworthy objects. It will bob safely through hurricanes that can sink great ships; and for most practical purposes, glass lasts forever. There is no way to predict where a bottle might travel, and that is part of its mystery. This mystery has intrigued people for as long as there have been bottles. Ever since humans have had the "vessel" for a letter, the ability to write and the time to do it, we can assume that messages have been dropped into the sea. Messages inside of bottles have been floated over a long period of time by a variety of people, for a variety of reasons. The earliest known sender recorded was the Greek philosopher Theophrastus who, in around 310 B.C., threw sealed bottles into the Mediterranean to prove that the inland body of water was formed by the inflow of the Atlantic. Queen Elizabeth I of England in the 16th Century used bottles to carry intelligence reports. Messages in bottles have been chronicled for centuries and include some of the most famous names in history. For example, Ben Franklin, used message-carrying bottles to compile a basic knowledge of East Coast currents in the mid-1700's, and to this day is still used by the U.S. Navy. Today, you can capture that old world spirit using modern technology to ensure your message reaches its final destination.
Camp Conejo's 2014 theme was Surfin Safari. We expanded to two sessions this year and my Program Director, Mindy Hostetter created an amazing program. Workshops included: Etiquette, wood working, archery, rain sticks, ukulele, hula, Irish Dance, Square Dance, Hip Hop Dance, martial arts, acting, Improv, message in a bottle, sand art, rock painting, camping, golf, computer programming, sit upon scrap booking, cartography, healthy living, tennis, tons of crafts, camp carnival and more.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE WORKSHOP:
Read the history of the Message in a Bottle (below) to the kids • This week every kid at camp will write a letter to another camper (they will not know who will receive it) Make sure they do not write, “Dear ___”...start the letter with “Hello”, etc. • If you are working with young children that can’t write yet, please write the letter for them, but have them tell you what to write. • Encourage kind words. You can give them prompting sentences if they are in the younger groups. For example” “My favorite thing at Camp Conejo was.....” Or “I will never forget....”. Have everyone use their name and age or grade and where they go to school. Example sentence, “Hi! My name is _____, I go to Lang Ranch Elementary and I am a 3rd grader.” • On the last day of camp, all of the bottles will be displayed in sand pools and each child will take one on their way out. • Please have the kids put some sand in their bottle (basic beige sand), followed by a couple mini seashells and their rolled up letter. Have each tribe tie a different colored ribbon around their letter. Then close the bottle and tie a raffia bow on the neck of the bottle. The different colored inside ribbons are important because we don’t want the kids getting a bottle from someone in their own tribe. We will instruct them to pick a different colored bottle then they made. Please use the correct ribbon for each tribe that is marked accordingly. Fragile as it is, a well-sealed bottle is one of the world's most seaworthy objects. It will bob safely through hurricanes that can sink great ships; and for most practical purposes, glass lasts forever. There is no way to predict where a bottle might travel, and that is part of its mystery. This mystery has intrigued people for as long as there have been bottles. Ever since humans have had the "vessel" for a letter, the ability to write and the time to do it, we can assume that messages have been dropped into the sea. Messages inside of bottles have been floated over a long period of time by a variety of people, for a variety of reasons. The earliest known sender recorded was the Greek philosopher Theophrastus who, in around 310 B.C., threw sealed bottles into the Mediterranean to prove that the inland body of water was formed by the inflow of the Atlantic. Queen Elizabeth I of England in the 16th Century used bottles to carry intelligence reports. Messages in bottles have been chronicled for centuries and include some of the most famous names in history. For example, Ben Franklin, used message-carrying bottles to compile a basic knowledge of East Coast currents in the mid-1700's, and to this day is still used by the U.S. Navy. Today, you can capture that old world spirit using modern technology to ensure your message reaches its final destination.
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