The Camp Program Lab

Check out all the new stuff that Curt and Chris have picked up from others and learned from their time doing Virtual Camp. This is part one of two. In these two episodes, you’ll be getting a ton more great ideas to implement into Online Camp this summer. We all know that this isn’t the same as normal camp, but the guys give some excellent ideas to help make Virtual Camp pretty close to the epicness of normal camp. This is a great episode to get info as you begin to plan your very odd summer this year!

Curt and Chris have a very awesome and timely conversation with Meghan from Guard Up. She runs an incredibly amazing camp on a normal year, but this year, she has created the coolest Virtual Camp ever!!! From Zombies, to Knights, to Wizards, she and her team have put together some seriously cool stuff! Best of all, you can buy and use her already created programs for your camp!!! 

The guys talk about some great ideas for a cooking program at camp. From Fruit Kabobs to Pudgy Pies, your tastebuds will be watering this week. So fire up the grill and put a fork in whatever else you’re doing so you can listen to this episode

Curt and Chris interview Paul Gowder about Native American culture at camp this week. This is a great eye-opening episode to learn from Paul about the proper way to include Native American culture into camp. The guys ask lots of great questions that you probably have! Check out this week to make sure you and your camp are doing it right!

In part two, Chris and his crafty wife, Carrie, teach even more super awesome contemporary crafts! This two-part episode is also available on the Scamp Life YouTube channel to watch and see exactly how each craft is made. If your craft room needs an update, or you just want some cool ideas for new and exciting crafts that the campers WANT to do, check out this episode.

In this episode, Chris and his crafty wife, Carrie, teach some super awesome contemporary crafts! This two-part episode is also available on the SCamp Life YouTube channel to watch and see exactly how each craft is made. If your craft room needs an update, or you just want some cool ideas for new and exciting crafts that the campers WANT to do, check out this episode.

Curt and Chris discuss lots of great ideas for hosting your own virtual camp. In this current craziness of covid19 and quarantine, creating a virtual camp will help keep you connected to your campers and give them some fun campy things to do! This is a great episode to listen to now and then get with your team and start planning your very own E-Camp!

In this timely episode, the guys have a chat with Jack all about Hometown Stomping Ground, a virtual camp. Jack and his team have been creating tons of great stuff for their campers to do during this quarantine. This is a very new experience for all of us, and this week’s episode gives some great insight on getting started with your own virtual camp.  

Have you heard the buzz? The guys invite Kevin Johnson on this week to discuss beekeeping at your camp. If this is something you’re considering, or mayBEE you weren’t until now, this is a great week to listen! Kevin shares a lot of the pros and cons (Stingers and Honey!) of this program activity.  So, BEE proactive and listen as the guys WAX eloquently about our winged friends.  

Need to update some of your current stuff to make it cooler or just different. This week’s episode has the guys talking all about Twerking…I mean Tweaking Current Activities! (And if you know anything about Chris, you know he’s going to go over the top with some of these!)