Dear Scouter Bill,
This is for my Winter YRC.
On March 27th – 29th there was the 27th group camp. The theme for this camp was Science fun. There was only a small group of people there, including 5 whitetails, 4 cubs, 3 scouts, 3 rovers and 3 leaders. It was a challenging camp, as there was one beaver with a learning disability and one cub with ADHD. This made it just that much more interesting as these two were always so full of energy.
We had a lodge for the weekend with a nice large kitchen in it, a bunkroom, and two bedrooms with 4 bunks each. Also on the site there were three Adirondacks. Two of which had fresh hay and two had new roves. Everybody slept inside on Friday night. It was very warm. On Saturday night we scouts slept outside in temporary structures that we constructed. The girls shelter was like a temporary Adirondack, as for its insulation we used hay. Both shelters allowed for trapping heat and staying dry, while not being very complicated using simple quad designs.
During the day on Saturday, the rovers along with us lead 6 science experiments for the cubs and beavers. Among those experiments were;
1. Lava, creating volcanoes and making them erupt using baking soda, vinegar and food dye.
2. Chocolate dogs, making dog heads out of chocolate and then eating them.
3. Blobber, making silly putty from borax and glue.
4. Sci-ice-ence cream, making ice cream in a can using salted ice.
5. Sticky water, making water run down a string from a pitcher to a cup.
6. Riddle me, solving 6 riddles.
Everybody seemed to enjoy the experiments greatly. Especially the ones that were messy!
On both nights we had campfires. The cubs and beavers were not very enthusiastic singers, so it made for pretty quiet and quick campfires. At the campfire on Saturday we distributed glow bracelets for them to have. Everyone enjoyed those, even the leaders had fun with them. Sunday’s scout’s own also went well; we even had some of the cubs do some readings for us.
The food over the course of the weekend was very yummy and easy to prepare. The rovers and scouts were on kitchen duty for the weekend. We all seemed to work pretty well together except for some arguments, between two people.
Overall this was a very good camp, the rain even held off until Sunday. That gave us all of Saturday in the warm sunshine.
YIS,
Nicole
