well our 2nd annual camp cousinfun has come and gone! this year's theme..."water, water everywhere" was definitely a hit! i took a ton of photos...here are the highlights of everything we did:
ACTIVITIES:
all the kids painted the cousin camp banner and decorated their new camp tshirts.
all the kids painted the cousin camp banner and decorated their new camp tshirts.
Hilly Pop (my dad) demonstrating how water in drinking glasses can make a tune.
the kids made their own lava lamps with oil and water. adding an alka seltzer tablet made it super cool!
other activities included testing objects to see if they sink or float in water, watching what happens to celery dipped in colored water, learning about the water cycle and the 3 forms of water, and the older cousins did a puppet show about water conservation!
GAMES:
they played some fun water games outside. here is evan playing "drip drip drop" (aka duck duck goose). you had to pour the water in the cup on the "drop" person!
a relay race trying to fill a bucket with a cup of water that had holes in the bottom!
the girls trying to catch as much water as they could in their cups from the sprinkler.
they also played Marco Polo outside by tagging people with a cup of water.
MUSIC:
we sang some fun songs about water (my sister always comes up with such fun songs!). the JAWS song, singing in the rain (with a twist), and others!
and at night, rusty would play guitar and we would sing a few worship songs together.
SNACKS:
my mom made these cute flip flops with the kids using nutter butter cookies & icing...yum!
watermelon smiles.
other snacks we did were fishing poles (big pretzel sticks) with bait (pnut butter & marshmallow creme) to catch goldfish, swimming pool (blue jello) with teddy grahams, sea turtles (oatmeal creme pies, nilla wafer for head, pretzels for feet).
FIELD TRIPS:
if you ask evan what his favorite part of cousin camp was...he'll say "the water treatment plant". who knew this would be so impactful! here we are sporting our hard hats getting ready for our tour. it really was quite fascinating to learn what happens after our water goes down the drain and how they clean it!!
we also went to one of the gwinnett county water parks one afternoon. the kids had a blast on the waterslides and lazy river.
the dads took the kids fishing saturday morning. they were unsuccessful in catching anything, but a few of them learned how to cast correctly!
we also went swimming one night at their neighborhood pool. and another thing we did was break up into 3 teams and had a scavenger hunt at the local mall. we had a list of things all associated with water and had to go all over the mall to find them...and take a picture of our items.
GAMES:
they played some fun water games outside. here is evan playing "drip drip drop" (aka duck duck goose). you had to pour the water in the cup on the "drop" person!
a relay race trying to fill a bucket with a cup of water that had holes in the bottom!
the girls trying to catch as much water as they could in their cups from the sprinkler.
they also played Marco Polo outside by tagging people with a cup of water.
MUSIC:
we sang some fun songs about water (my sister always comes up with such fun songs!). the JAWS song, singing in the rain (with a twist), and others!
and at night, rusty would play guitar and we would sing a few worship songs together.
SNACKS:
my mom made these cute flip flops with the kids using nutter butter cookies & icing...yum!
watermelon smiles.
other snacks we did were fishing poles (big pretzel sticks) with bait (pnut butter & marshmallow creme) to catch goldfish, swimming pool (blue jello) with teddy grahams, sea turtles (oatmeal creme pies, nilla wafer for head, pretzels for feet).
FIELD TRIPS:
if you ask evan what his favorite part of cousin camp was...he'll say "the water treatment plant". who knew this would be so impactful! here we are sporting our hard hats getting ready for our tour. it really was quite fascinating to learn what happens after our water goes down the drain and how they clean it!!
we also went to one of the gwinnett county water parks one afternoon. the kids had a blast on the waterslides and lazy river.
the dads took the kids fishing saturday morning. they were unsuccessful in catching anything, but a few of them learned how to cast correctly!
we also went swimming one night at their neighborhood pool. and another thing we did was break up into 3 teams and had a scavenger hunt at the local mall. we had a list of things all associated with water and had to go all over the mall to find them...and take a picture of our items.
WHEW! we did a lot in 3 days. the finale was a lip sync talent show the last night...which was HILARIOUS. i'll have to post pictures (and video) of that later!!
