Bright Ideas - Camp and Sleepovers

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Tacky Tourist Camp

• Decorate the main area with a world map hung on the wall with pinpoint flags marking countries of destination.
• Upon arriving, each girl is greeted by a Guider/ Mom stewardess and given her passport book with personal information on the inside cover, i.e. name,address along with a photo of the girl (photo should be taken a week or two before camp and trimmed down to fit the passport).
• The stewardess will also give each girl her travel documents, (plane, bus, boat and train tickets and also travellers' cheques).
• The stewardess will then give the girls over to the motel manager who will welcome them and show them to their rooms, which should have poster from all over the world.
• Each destination should have a Guider/Mom helper dressed for that country.
• Each destination should have 1 or 2 facts or traditions from that country.
• Also music from the same culture would help set the mood. Your local library has a wide selection of music to choose from.
• Each girl could be asked to bring sunglasses, hat, and whatever tacky tourist stuff they would like to bring.
• At each port of entry, passports could be stamped or stickers given.

Itinerary

Friday Night

Arrival

• make Name Pin name tags
  • What you need:
    • coiless safety pins
    • size 4 safety pins,
    • size 3 alphabet beads
    • e-beads
    • 4 mm gold round beads
  • Instructions:
    • Open up four 3/4" pins.
    • Slide on one 4mm gold bear, one e-bead, one 4 mm gold bead, one e-bead and one 4 mm gold bear on to each safety pin.
    • Close the pins.
    • Open up a 1 1/2" coiless pin and slide on one of your 3/4" pins through its coil at the end.
    • Slide on your third alphabet bear (such as the V in LUV).
    • Slide on another 3/4" pin then your second alphabet bead, another coiless, the first alphabet bead and the final coiless.
    • Close pin.

  France

  • Before departure, make name tag pins.
  • Then remember the French love chocolate so have a snack of hot chocolate and pastries.
  • Don't forget to charge for the snack, and to take the' tickets when entering France.
    
    

  Italy

  • Here the conductor will take tickets and stamp passports, as in every destination.
  • The girls will visit the leaning tower of Pisa.
  • Then they are divided into 2-4 groups and will have timed contest of building a tower out of various sizes of empty boxes.
    
    

  Hawaii

  • Go outside for this one.
  • A Guider/Mom dressed in a grass skirt and lei welcomes each girl and gives her a lei.
  • Then the girls are taken to a lagoon for campfire.
    • The lagoon is a wading pool wilth sand on the bottom and filled with water and floating candles.
  • Here the girls will sit around the lagoon and have campfire - songs, skits, yells and a story or a reading.
  • Then it will be off to bed in Hawaii (soft music with water sounds would be nice here).
  • Have the girls listen to the surf, this is very relaxing.

Saturday Morning

Australia

• Breakffast in the Outback - use silly names for breakfast choices, i.e. crocodile egg scramble, kangaroo flapjacks and dingo strips (bacon).
• Don't forget to take tickets and charge for brekkie.

United States

• Visit with the Native Americans.
• Here you may do a craft such as Dream Catchers or Sand Art.
• The older girls could learn archery.

Lunch in Switzerland

• Here again, you need to dream up silly names for you food, i.e. Zopf soup, Ziegeunersalat sandwiches, etc.
• Heidi costumes are worn by the Guiders.

England

• After taking train tickets and stamping passports, pass out mini- magnifying glasses.
• This is the country of Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes.
• Have the girls look for stolen jewels. Leave clues, so they can be hot on the trail.

Supper in Mexico

• Tacos would be a fun choice.
• After dinner, clear the area for the Mexican Hat Dance. Girls love to dance!
• Maybe you want to spend the night in Mexico and have a pinata party!

Sunday Morning

• Destination Home You could end with a tacky tourist parade!

Submitted by: Glenda Barrera 43rd Edmonton Guides

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