Matt N Karen: Take Flight

This year Chase again attended cub scout day camp down in Genoa. I was lucky to be able to go 2 of the 3 days. WARNING: This post is picture overload. Believe it or not I did not take pictures of everything we did(and even missed a day). The theme this year for camp was "Take Flight". Once we arrived and checked in we were assigned to the kites group.

Once we found our flag we became acquainted with our group of boys. I had a group of 8 boys. They were all pretty good. Chase was excited one of his friends that was in our group last year was once again in his group.

We began our station rotation at propulsion's where the boys learned all about air and movement. It was a lot of balloon blowing!

They made these cool little hover crafts out of Cd's and balloons and then played air hockey with them.

They also made some cars out of water bottles and balloons.

Next we made kites. The people running this station were not all that enthusiastic about being there. I tried to make light of it and say "hey we're experts on making kites" (because that was our group name). Didn't really lighten the mood. They let the boys make the kites but not fly them?

Luckily that was our only run in with downers. The boys also made some mini bots out of toothbrush heads, paper clips, and a battery. Then battled them at a battle station.

They made flutes out of PVC pipes...these turned out to be pretty tricky to play.

They made solar ovens and roasted a marshmallow for s'mores,

They ran an obstacle course, propelled sponges from a parachute,

and played this game. Crab soccer I think? Not sure what it was, but it kept their feet moving.

They built rockets and had a shoot out,

and had a bird play which was pretty funny. It was written using a mad libs script. Chase was the blue jay who had to get this worm out of the ground with his ear.

Each year they have one off campus activity. This year they bused us to the Minden airport. They made each one of the boys these aviator hats with goggles.

They learned all about flying rockets, gliders, and a real plane. They got to get in the cock pit and learn about all the controls and test it out a bit on the ground.

They also built these bird feeders that stick on your window so you can see the birds up close.

Mid-day each day everyone returned to the main area for an hour long lunch break. They brought in performers to do a show every day and had snow cones for the boys. Pretty cute to catch this moment of Chase and some of his friends talking and bonding over snow cones.