"Camp-Out Jamboree"
Decorations
Outside, set up a tent(s), campfire or low grill and camp chairs.
Cake and Food
Gorp mix, chips, a big cooler full of lemonade or other drink, hot dogs, hamburgers, pot of beans, and for a late snack....s'mores and roasted marshmallows.
Cake: Use a rectangular cake, frost green and add Oreo "dirt". Add frosting sleeping bags and heads around a pretzel campfire. Find plastic trees for decoration.
Goody Bags
Mini toy binoculars, whistles, mini compasses, bag of gorp.
Games and Activities
Daytime:
Nature Scavenger Hunt:
Game: Make a list of natural things that you can find around the "Campsite" and make a list for each individual or team. See how many they can find.
Freaky Nature Hunt:
Game: Doctor up different plants, trees, make your own freaks of nature, i.e. an orange growing on an oak, flowers out of tree trunk, etc. Keep a list and see who can find them all within a time limit.
Frisbee Golf:
Things You Need: aluminum pie plates, string, one Frisbee per player.
Game: Hang pie plates around the area, on tree limbs at different heights or, if there are no trees, set them on the ground. Starting at a designated "T", throw the Frisbee toward the pie plate. If the Frisbee does not hit the plate, this is where they throw from next. Keep a record of how many tries it takes per player to hit each "hole".
Nightime
Monkey See, Monkey Do:
Game: Select one person to be "It" and give him a flashlight and ask him to leave the area. Select another person to be the monkey and have "It" come back. The monkey then begins to make faces and actions which the other players copy. "It" must try to figure out who the monkey is.
Going on a Camping Trip:
Game: Have everyone sit in a circle. The first person begins with "I'm going on a camping trip and I'm going to bring something that starts with the letter "a", next "b", "c", and so on, with everyone repeating what was said before them.
Campfire Songs: Everybody sing along to all the old favourites, and maybe learn some new ones.