WELCOME FAMILIES TO SUMMER CAMP
The Excitement Unfolds at Family Camp!
Enjoy a week with your family in the beautiful Plymouth Valley. Family campers work, play, create community and share the joys of late summer.
Everyone is welcomed at Family Camp, regardless of age or family makeup. The program is relaxed and informal and takes place at the IB facility. With the help of a small group of skilled Farm and Wilderness staff, campers implement and lead the activities they would most like to do.
Activities: Campers may lead in singing, weaving, canoeing, hiking, woodworking, tie-dying, swimming, playing music and developing skits, arts and crafts, Frisbee, board games, preparing meals, visiting and caring for the barn animals, picking fresh veggies from the gardens or baking apple pies with apples from the orchard.
Evenings: This is a special time where campers and families play games, make music and share stories around the campfire.
EXPLORE LIFE AT FLYING CLOUD CAMP
Every day there are new activities to challenge our campers as they explore the excitement and wonder living in the natural world without cell phones, televisions and other modern day distractions.
Mornings begin with the sun shining through the trees, lighting up the clearing. Campers join in a circle, where a senior camper leads the community of voices in appreciation for the natural world around them. Before breakfast, campers collect firewood, bake bread, work in the garden and hand pump water from the well. Once breakfast is made, the cook crew summons everyone together with the treble of a conch shell. Warm oatmeal, fresh bread and other goodies are served in the sunshine or under the canopy of our open air roundhouse. After breakfast and Silent Meeting where they spend time in reflection, meditation and relaxation, campers enjoy morning activities in the beauty of nature.
Afternoons are filled with projects and learning special skills. After lunch and rest hour, which carry us through the hottest part of the day, campers dive into afternoon activities. From practicing a musical instrument, to improving tracking skills or starting a fire using friction, the wilderness provides the perfect setting for experiential learning. Campers and staff might venture further afield to pick blueberries on a nearby mountain top or go for a swim in Lake Ninevah. Other times, our youth work around camp building a shelter or clearing a trail. Whether diving into a new project or continuing to work on one, the days are filled with opportunities.
Evening is a time for gathering in community. Our campers enjoy a filling meal, such as stew and fresh bread made in our fire-stoked oven. After dinner, everyone enjoys an all-camp activity. This is a chance to burn off some energy with a Flying Cloud game of Sticks (our version of Capture the Flag) or Battle Ball (dodgeball) or inventing a new one! As the evening winds down, the group shares appreciation for each other to pull it all together before drifting off to blissful sleep.
EXPERIENCE LIFE IN THE OUTDOORS
ACTIVITIES
Starting a fire with a bow drill, games of frisbee golf, playing drums – simple living rocks!
Barns and Gardens
Campers plant flowers, feed farm animals, garden and harvest vegetables. Sometimes the children have the opportunity to help with the chick hatching, watching eagerly for cracks in the egg shells in the incubator. Goats, bunnies, chickens, ducks and pigs live on the Barn Day Camp farm.
Barns and Gardens
Campers plant flowers, feed farm animals, garden and harvest vegetables. Sometimes the children have the opportunity to help with the chick hatching, watching eagerly for cracks in the egg shells in the incubator. Goats, bunnies, chickens, ducks and pigs live on the Barn Day Camp farm.
Barns and Gardens
Campers plant flowers, feed farm animals, garden and harvest vegetables. Sometimes the children have the opportunity to help with the chick hatching, watching eagerly for cracks in the egg shells in the incubator. Goats, bunnies, chickens, ducks and pigs live on the Barn Day Camp farm.
Barns and Gardens
Campers plant flowers, feed farm animals, garden and harvest vegetables. Sometimes the children have the opportunity to help with the chick hatching, watching eagerly for cracks in the egg shells in the incubator. Goats, bunnies, chickens, ducks and pigs live on the Barn Day Camp farm.
Barns and Gardens
Campers plant flowers, feed farm animals, garden and harvest vegetables. Sometimes the children have the opportunity to help with the chick hatching, watching eagerly for cracks in the egg shells in the incubator. Goats, bunnies, chickens, ducks and pigs live on the Barn Day Camp farm.
Barns and Gardens
Campers plant flowers, feed farm animals, garden and harvest vegetables. Sometimes the children have the opportunity to help with the chick hatching, watching eagerly for cracks in the egg shells in the incubator. Goats, bunnies, chickens, ducks and pigs live on the Barn Day Camp farm.
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