Before the children arrive…
Today the teen mentors came together for a short training and preparation session before meeting with their young ones tomorrow. The morning focused on leadership and the leaders from entrepreneurs such as Phoenixville native, Kyle Schutter, who has started a company in Kenya to the people who inspire each of us with this leadership and its effects in our own lives. From our parents to our friends we all find our heroes in people who inspire us to do good in the world, be kind to others and offer a helping hand wherever a need is seen. To each of the children joining us for this camp, their teen will become one of their heroes even in the three shorts days we will spend with them
The day carried on with a time to eat, a quick demonstration by some of the seasoned mentors of how to finger-knit (Mrs. Birdsall warned that a finger-knitted bracelet or necklace would be our ticket out today) and final adjustments were made to the multicolored capes that will be used for theatrical renditions of stories told to the children each day.
After lunch and after everyone had proved his or her skill at finger-knitting we learned a few games that will keep the children entertained in the down moments during the next three days. These included "huckle-buckle-beanstalk," "corners," and the "bubblegum game."
The day wound down with a story told by Mrs. Birdsall after which we tested our skill at putting the story on paper with beeswax crayons and then tried out the multicolored capes in our own theatrical rendition of the Bremen Town Musicians.
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