Well the final day of camp was upon us. For only having been there three days, it sure felt like we had known the children and each other a lot longer. We began the day baking zucchini brownies in preparation for the afternoon party. In three groups the children measured the ingredients, grated the zucchini, cracked the eggs and mixed it all together.
The dog sat on the donkey's shoulders, the cat on top
of the dog and the rooster perched on the cat's head.
Once all of the brownies had made their way into their pans and into the ovens we gathered for some circle games and a new story. Today's story was of the Bremen Town Musicians (a story that the teens already had practice at from our first day without the children). This is a story of four old farm animals (a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster) who can no longer work and travel to the town to become musicians. They are still walking through the forest when it begins to get dark, so they decide to rest for the night. But the rooster sees a house a little ways away and when they go to see if they can rest there they find robbers inside. So they hatch a plan to scare the robbers away (at which they succeed) and live in the robbers' house happily ever after.
During the story we began to smell the chocolaty brownies cooking which made us all hungry by snack time. Snack was followed by an outdoor recess and when we returned from recess the smell of brownies had wafted through the halls as well.
Now it was time to put ourselves to the test of acting out the story of the musicians. Being the second day for the children to act out a story there were more volunteers and a great deal of enthusiasm. After all of the actors had taken a bow, it was time to draw some scenes from the story to create their books for the day.
Mason, Shane, Tay Sean,
Jonathan and Charlotte
Lunch and recess followed the bookmaking and when we came back inside we played some games. We attempted a game of huckle buckle beanstalk, but found that they were a bit too young to keep themselves from pointing out or touching the hidden object before all of the other children had found it. So we moved on to a rousing game of duck duck goose.
John plays clapping games with Aidan's back
Shane helps Joey feed himself
the brownies and ice cream.
Finally it was time to EAT those brownies we had been smelling all day. So with a dollop of ice cream on top we tried our concoction— and they were very tasty!
It was almost time to leave so we gathered all of the childrens' books, pencil cases and put their t-shirts on them for a final group photo and they were off.
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