Summer Camp

How about your Scouts? How about their parents? This podcast features advice for Scouters attending summer camp and parents who are staying home. I’ll discuss ten things that will make life at summer camp smooth sailing for you and your Scouts, and also share some things parents can do to prepare their Scouts and themselves for the best week for the year – Summer Camp! Parents of Scouts headed to camp for the first time may find the experience more difficult than their Scouts ever will....

How was your troop’s week at camp this summer? Summer camp can be the most important week in a patrol and troop’s year – it’s challenging, adventurous, and full of possibility. How well did the camp you attended this summer provide those sorts of opportunities for your Scouts? The summer camp survey is designed for Scout troops who have already attended camp this summer and asks for your reflections on the camp’s staff, programs, and facilities....

We prepare our Scouts, but how about their parents? How can we help parents make it though the first week of summer camp? Entrusting the full-time care of your child to someone for such a long time, for the first time, can be challenging for parents. In this podcast I offer some ideas you can share with parents tp make their child’s stay at summer camp easier on the folks at home....

It’s a privilege to accompany Scouts to summer camp, the greatest week in a patrol’s year. We seize every opportunity to let the Scouts do things independently. While at camp I put myself and the other adults of guests and observers. We define our area in the campsite (not the choice, prominent most comfortable area- give that to your Scouts) and stay in it. We don’t follow our Scouts around camp nor, with rare exception, lead them around camp....

Letters from camp day seven is a montage of the weekend at Camp Horseshoe – Paul Bunyan Field Day, OA call-out at Saturday retreat, and Sunday lunch.

Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe

Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe

Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe

Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe

Hello from Camp Horseshoe! Send me an email me via Troop 24 Kennett Square and I’ll reply via one of the video Letters from Summer Camp this week. You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe

DAY ONE This is the forst of several summer camp letters from Chester County Council’s Camp Horseshoe. Horseshoe offers one of the last seven day traditional Boy Scout summer resident camp programs in the country. With over 40+ merit badge choices, a stellar first-year program, computer lab, STEM offerings, a multitude of SIP’s as well as older-Scout program opportunities including COPE, mountain biking and Independent Merit Badge Studies.

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Parent’s spend a lot of time preparing Scouts for summer camp, but have they prepared themselves? Do parents know what goes on at camp? This week I offer some advice directed at parents (especially of younger Scouts) that will help make the experience for them and their Scouts a positive one. There’s also a Scoutmaster’s minute o about the ninth point of the Scout law along with your messages in the mailbag....

Podcast Episode (00:26:46): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 226 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers We are at our best as Scouters when we act as guides and use responsive leadership, it’s something we all need to work on, so this week my thoughts about three types of leaders. In answer to an email question I also offer some ideas for what Scouts ought to be doing at summer camp....

Two humble things find a number of uses at summer camp; clothespins and index cards. I usually have a pocket full of index cards, and use them all day long to take notes, leave messages, and post reminders or notices for youth leaders. With clothespins or thumbtacks I can clip them to a tent flap, a branch, or pin them to our bulletin board. Here’s ten ideas that you may find useful and fun:...

While the twelve points of the Scout law at summer camp isn’t different than the Scout law anywhere else the week we spend together in the company of other Scouts is a great opportunity to discover how the Scout law applies to everything we do. Available as a PDF document. (see the download link below) Get dozens of Scouting resources like this one (infographics and other helpful documents in PDF format) Get the PDF package and support the creation of these resources for $5....

John Wiebke Scoutmaster of Troop 358 in Zionsville, Indiana, shares his summer plans (and what great plans they are!) Nothing makes the winter pass quicker than looking forward to a great summer adventure! Every other year our troop travels to Ontario, Canada, for summer camp at Haliburton Scout Reservation (three hours north of Toronto on Lake Kennabi) and a simultaneous high adventure trip just a little north of Haliburton at Algonquin Provincial Park....

Two troops, same Scout summer camp, same week; one troop has a wonderful time and goes home smiling, one has a difficult time and leaves unhappy. I observed hundreds of troops and thousands of Scouts As a staff member and camp director for a dozen summers. I can tell you one thing that makes or breaks a week at camp. It is not facilities, location, staff, or program. Those things will have less to do with the experience you’ll have once you are there than you expect....

Here’s a clever idea from Camp Wanderer that combines a canning jar and the top section of a solar re-charged garden light to create a lighted container for things like matches at camp. While I am at summer camp I’ll have a jar sitting on my picnic table with a spare headlamp or small flashlight inside in case night falls before I have bothered to find one. The jar also serves as a “homing beacon” as we walk back from evening activities....

Scout camp has a number of benefits that we sometimes miss! For Better or For Worse Comic Strip, July 06, 2013 on GoComics.com.

Here’s a Scouter’s summer camp schedule: Time Scouts Scouters [6:45] AM Awakened by the SPL and PL’s. Flag is raised and all Scouts go to polar bear swim as a group. I used to get up and go to Polar Bear swim years ago (like 15 or so) but I think it’s important for the Scouts to do this on their own. 7;15 AM Scouts return from polar bear swim, get changed and begin cleaning up the campsite....