Camp Maripai

Monday, July 15, 2013

Week 6

Welcome to blast from the past week!

Today creekside cooled off with a water fight.

water fight!

Goldilocks is ambushed

Hilltop Geocaching in the creek

Silly hilltop faces in the creek

Creekside girls with their bugs on sticks

Saddle up at the barn

Pinetree learning about horses!

The storms are rolling in!

Today we have free choice, the CIT's are touring a camp, and a fun all camp of learning dances through the ages awaits us!

Happy camping!

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Prescott Playground goes to the Smoki museum

Today the Prescott Playground girls went to the Smoki museum!

We learned about the ancient peoples of the southwest.

Montezuma replica

girls learning to grind corn

Pueblo layouts

Zuni pump drills

Even the counselors tried the drills!

Today Maripai also got their first rainstorm of the summer! Everything is cooled off tonight and we are off to enjoy an all camp movie!

Happy camping!

week 5 fun

Today is another day here at Maripai!

A fire ban can't keep these girls from smores!

Outdoor Explorer making a solar oven

Here's some slides from some morning activities

CIT 1's bonding games

Be the human table!

CIT 1's doing the human knot

Horsin around learning a new game

Horsin around decided to heart attack Sketch!

Today we have another free choice and will be ending the day with sleeping under the stars!

The Greenwood girls made hearts and "attacked" the art ramada with them

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

We're having a carnival! (week 5)

Carnival time!

For Tuesday's all camp we decided to have a night carnival.
Events included a duck pond, bean bag toss, photo booth, cotton candy, face painting, and glow stick tag

pick the right duck and win a prize

silly photo-booth photos

so close!

Yum cotton candy

Which event to go to first?

Face painting anyone?

week 5 Hilltop adventures

Today our natural horsemanship girls and pioneers made zucchini bread and butter!
Hilltop was also in charge of the flag ceremony today.

Pioneers shaking up some butter!

Natural horsemanship making zucchini bread

Figuring out the recipe

Hilltop making a bridge for the ceremony

CIT 1's being the color guard

Cit 1's being the callers for ceremony

And the Flag ceremony begins...

week 5 to the zoo!

Prescott Playground is here exploring the fun things that the city of Prescott keeps.

Today we went to the Heritage Zoo!

Leopard Gecko stores food in his tail!

baby bear!

Here is a comical moment of the baby bear about to steal a hat

Cassie the Tiger playing in her pool

porcupine eating an apple

Walking around the zoo was much fun

The girls got to see lions, tigers, and bears, oh my.
Prescott Playground learned that a tortoise can live for 100 years and a lot of snakes aren't poisonous. We cooled off in Rattlesnake Jakes water playground and finished the trip with a picnic at the zoo.
We had a full day as they went horseback riding after the trip.
Tomorrow is a new adventure!