This activity gives groups an idea of what a day at Camp 100 could look like.
You will need:
- Paper plates or pictures of paper plates
- Colouring pens or pencils.
- A list of all the centres and their descriptions
- Songbooks if needed for campfire.
- Laptop to watch video from Common Ground
What to do
Narrate the steps people will go through and try to get them to imagine the camp they
are in. Each of these sections can take no more than about 5 minutes and some should be less. Here are the steps:
- Setting up the camp – Get the group to role play putting up tents. Encourage them to work together to create a circle of tents: soon they will meet other districts and international groups to form the village! Then settle down to sleep in their tents.
- Sleeping – Narrate the sounds of a morning camp and transition into the morning cry. Everyone wakes up and emerges from their tents to greet the sun, ready for a new day of camp!
- Breakfast – First things first: breakfast! Give everyone a paper plate or a picture of the plate and tell them they can fill one third of the plate with a drawing of their ideal camp breakfast (we would love to see what your young people draw so dont forget to send pictures of the finished plates to yourideas@camp100.org.uk).
- Morning circle – Get everybody to gather in a circle and give some camp announcements. You can get the young people to nominate a chair of the circle and they can make some silly announcements. Play a name game or a circle game.
- Clans – It’s time to meet your clan! Split everyone into 2 or 3 groups, including the adults too! Explain that clans are groups where we help each other to do the tasks around the camp like cooking and cleaning. Teamwork is very important so we will play a game to practise our team working skills: the human knot game! Everyone holds hands with someone who is not next to them. Then, the group has to untangle the knot without letting go of anyone’s hand.
- Morning activities – Have the different centres and their descriptions hung up around the venue, they can go and choose what they want to do. Narrate how they might find activities at camp, hearing from a friend, seeing on a chalkboard, wandering into a session drawn by the sound of laughter etc
A few examples of centres:
- Solidarity Centre- A place to learn how we can work together to create a better world and be inspired to create one! Workshops will cover topics such as what socialism is, class struggle, and direct action.
- STEM Cell- Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths will all be covered in new and exciting ways! Come put on a lab coat and learn about the stars and beyond…
- MEST-UP – A centre to discuss, explore and dissect topics such as mental health, identity, intoxicating substances, and well being in a supportive space.
- Arts and Crafts Centre – Painting, drawing, cutting, sticking, playing instruments… Come get creative at the arts and crafts centre!
- The Cool Zone – A space only for those under 12 years old to play and have fun. Also known as the cool centre!
- Underground Printing Press – Got something to say? Get creative and put those thoughts down using old fashioned mechanical printing presses. Will your canvas be a letter, a poster, a t-shirt…?
- Call everyone back together to find a friend and share what centre they visited, again narrate this as what is happening rather than asking them to do it.
- Lunch – They can now fill in the second third of the plate with what they want to eat for lunch.
- Afternoon activities in the village – Say that you then play some games in the village and get them to play a favourite game.
- Dinner/Tea – Come back together and fill out thfill out the last section of the plate.
- News – gather round a laptop or projector to watch a video from Common Ground (for example the video linked in the materials section is on YouTube. Called ‘Common Ground 2022’ uploaded by Woodcraft Folk). Again, narrate the going to the news, the big tent, the large numbers of people.
- Evening programme – After the news, it’s time for the evening programme! Tell the group that on camp there will be fun for all ages on the main stage in the evening. Play some music and everyone can dance, you can even play a game of musical statues.
- Campfire – The finish the night, get everyone to gather around for a campfire. Either use a lantern or volunteer children to pretend to be a fire. You can sing some songs from the songbook and share stories and memories about previous camps. Use this opportunity for any questions.
- Bed time – Narrate the bedtime routine as the group settle back down into their tents for night time. You can dim the light and read a bedtime story.
This activity is from our Camp 100 Activity Pack. Find the full activity pack to help you prepare for Camp 100 here.