Spring Break

Well, I guess you could say that I am pretty late posting about spring break camp when it is already summer! Technically you could say that it is still spring, since summer officially begins on June 21st, which is next Monday! However, for completeness, I felt before I could start posting blogs about summer camp I really needed to do justice to spring break.

First of all, this is the very first year that we offered spring break camp…we offered one week in March, corresponding to the Davidson County, Metro School spring break week, and one week during the Williamson County school spring break. The size of camp was small because we did not have a big bus, but rather a small 14 passenger bus. In fact, during the April spring break we had only a Chevy Suburban! We didn’t rent the bus for April because we actually didn’t have the minimum number of campers, but because parents and kids really wanted spring break camp to go on, we did what we could to make it happen!

Hopefully next spring we will have more kids signed up and be able to have a larger group. Nevertheless, spring break camp was wonderful – the weather was nice…cooler, but very nice. We were able to get the garden started (although all that hard work ended up washed away in the big flood!) and do a lot of other activities that we wouldn’t normally do because of the heat of summer and the fact that most kids want to spend much of the day in the creek during summer camp.

We recently acquired a new pottery wheel, and we were able to try that out for the first time this spring. In addition, we began offering yoga as well as a new wellness curriculum, called Stress Free Kids. The kids really enjoyed both the yoga and the stories and activities that went along with the wellness program.

We had a wonderful time hiking, bicycling, playing games, climbing trees and doing a lot of nature crafts…including fern pounding, which is a way to transfer the color of various plants (ferns, leaves, spring flowers) onto cloth.