One of the mothers in our homeschooling group has set up camp days. These are all day events for the families to go to an area park/natural area and "camp" for the day. We cook over a camp fire, take hikes, explore bodies of water, look at rocks, search for fossils, and whatever other outdoor activities strike our fancy (particularly that of the kids). We recently attended our first camp day last week. The girls enjoyed themselves completely! In fact, Madeline was willing to skip dance to stay longer (which we did not do since all 3 girls had dance that evening and I did not have the supplies/food to stay later).
Anyway, the girls totally enjoyed being in the out of doors. Isabella did tons of exploring. She is so intrigued by rocks and fossils right now, and their happened to be a cave at this particular location. She would have been happy to play in the cave looking for fossils all day. Madeline had a couple of her good friends there, and they spent time building and climbing. At first, they were building a fort from tress and brush, but after a while they changed directions and built a village by the creek, in the sand. It was very intricate and was a well designed community. They included areas for families to live as well as ways to provide the community with necessities, such as food and water. Hailey spent a good deal of her time using a log as a jungle gym. She was very proud of herself for climbing across it on her own, and then had to climb across it several more times with increased proficiency and speed each time. They kids also all used some hand tools to work some wood pieces.
This is definitely something they are looking forward to doing again. It really is so nice to have found other families who enjoy being outside and are willing to plan such activities!
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| Hailey and Isabella looking for fossils and rocks in the cave |
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Hailey on the log...
she thought that the knot hole in front of her looked like a whale's spout, so she was pretending she was sitting on a whale |
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| Crawling across the log for the first time |
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| Headed back the other way! |
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