“Camp at Home”

We’ve been trying to keep Scouts happening in some form or other and this weekend we had a “camp at home” camp.

We had sessions via Zoom, including opening parade,

the kids were encouraged to learn to tie some knots using the knot videos I’d made (we’d managed to get a kit of dowel and cord to them and they sent a photograph or showed via zoom what they’d done),

they’d been given a random tin of food which they were challenged to use as the basis for part of an evening meal that they cooked for their families,

and, finally, they were encouraged to “camp” at home, either in a tent or in a “cubby” or “blanket fort” at home.

Most of the troop got into the spirit of it all; one of the kids set up the family tent on the trampoline and many were quite creative in their cooking.

As for me: I just set up my little green tent in the front yard.

On Saturday night we had a campfire via Zoom, with some of the attendees managing an actual fire and some of us just using a candle, and one clever person managed to make something vaguely resembling Smores. It wasn’t quite the same as a real camp, but it wasn’t a bad attempt under the circumstances.