Grandma Day Camp 2016 Wednesday

We always start out with a flag ceremony and camp songs. Then today, we had a field trip! We went to Crown Center to eat at Fritz's, ride the street cars, and play at Kaleidoscope. 

At Fritz's they bring your food on a train. It's hamburgers and all, but they have train tracks around the top of the restaurant and load it up with your food.  The kids love it! Kate told us to get there early-- we were there right around 11:00 am, and by 11:15 there was a line. 

Kansas City just got a street car, so we had to ride it. We got on at Union Station, and road completely around to exit there, also.

Then we went to Kaleidoscope. Hallmark puts it on, and the price is right...free!  THe Kaleidoscope pics are dark because it's dark in there. The kids get to do all kinds of art projects. Even the big kids enjoyed it.

We came out of Kaleidoscope to find that Tom had put Luke to sleep...resting his head on two diapers... You know our motto... Grandma Day Camp..You get what you pay for...After Kaleidoscope, we needed to pose for the group pic...

We got home to do another craft.. Magazine art. You cut the magazine pages in half, then roll them up and glue, then make your name on the canvas.  Insert joke about teaching the kids to roll their own...

And they got out board games.. next year we need to schedule time for that..

Thanks to the Kesler's for introducing us to Blokus years ago...  Now it's time to go home, Grandma's are tired..

Grandma Day Camp 2016 Tuesday

On Tuesday, we had the flag ceremony and the parade of countries.

 

Then we went on a nature hike and Kim has a map of her property. The kids have to map certain landmarks and pick any flowers that they see. The hike was taken on the mules, mixed with hiking.

They then had to look up and find all the names of the flora...

While whittling starts, lunch gets cooked. We used the buddy burners, but I think this is the last year.  It takes forever and I have lost my zest.  As you can see, the kitchen crew take their job seriously. 

 For afternoon snack, we had brownie waffle failure. It was supposed to be brownies cooked in a waffle iron-- they did this last year and it turned out great-- so Jocie just put the brownies in a pan to cook.  Brownie Failure turned out delicious!

Crafting paracord bracelets took place during nap time, and every other minute.
We had to go thru miles of the paracord. And had to send out for more.

After naps, string art was going on.  At least it was Kim out in the garage.

Kallie chose to burn her walking stick.

Jocie chose to paint her string art board...

This is the real life of a 3 year old...absolutely fit throwing because she doesn't want to sing......

..........to Complete joy with her string art!

Grandma Day Camp 2016

 About a week before Day Camp, we realized that the Olympics were coming up in a few weeks, so we had to change the theme, which means a T-shirt change.  That’s Amber and Mandy’s problem. Amber does our graphics for the t shirts, and Mandy uses her silhouette and cuts them out and does the iron ons.  The theme went along with the Olympic colors, and of course a mosquito added to the back for the Zika Virus.  So the nite before camp begins finds us finishing the shirts about midnight.  Next year we need to get them done earlier.  

True story about the shirts, when Malorie saw Kim's shirt she took to back pedaling and pointed out that "Grandma there's a bug"  and then when Addie put hers on, we heard a scream and she busts out with "I thought there was a bug on me!"  Throughout the week we all had that kind of reaction at sometime.

We always start with the flag ceremony...

You would think by now they would have it memorized, but you would be thinking wrong...  You would think we would get better pics, but we never do...

Then inside for camp songs...

Alice the Camel...

Then dividing into teams and making the team flags. They were divided into three teams for the week, and had to decide on their name and flag...

Brody wasn't here on the first day, so his team-- Addie and Abby made them the BAA team with a lamb with a man bun for their mascot. Jocie, Emmy, Malorie and Luke were Kearney's Finest.  Malorie decided at the last minute to try and paint their flag pink.  Kallie, Reed and Will  made themselves the Ferocious Fruit.  Kind of a Carmen Miranda Brazil theme.

 

Kim got her morning nap in…. 

 

 Then off to swimming. We were going to do relays and such, but figured out the big kids would win everything, so they just swam. 

 

Home for lunch- the committee made the food. On the first day, they always make rollups and veggies.  You will have to look at last year for a pic, if we have one...

Afternoon snack—Poop on Ice, of course! It was incredible this year!  for those who don't know, it is No Bake Cookies, hot over ice cream. DON'T stir it up together, it turns into nasty oatmeal. It has that warm chocolate thing over ice cream going on... 

While Kim took her afternoon nap, we prepared our boards for string art. Kim and I had Olympic outlines, but the kids each wanted something different. They got on the computer and figured out what they wanted, and painted the boards to get ready.

Then more songs and time to go home!