| Activities |
Adventure Based Education - Afternoon
Facilitated by our featured presenter, Chris Cavert. This session will help you make learning hands-on while honing your on team building and communication skills. | $20.00 |
Adventure Based Education - Morning
Facilitated by our featured presenter, Chris Cavert. This session will help you make learning hands-on while honing your on team building and communication skills. | $20.00 |
Beaded Botanicals
Get ready to create the cutest plants that never need watering or sunlight. Each day we will work on a new variety of plant to create your own little collection. Each variety of plant will include a new beading skill and new baby plant for your collection. You are encouraged to bring any small (2-3in diameter) sized pot or beads you may have but everything is included in the cost. This is an activity you can learn for yourself or to share with all ages for camps or school. | $15.00 |
Camp Counselor TikTok Toolkit
This session will equip current and future camp counselors with a toolkit of engaging activities - ice breakers, crafts, STEM, dance, and more - that are fun, adaptable, and on-trend for today's campers. Each day will feature a TikTok Challenge, where teens will apply what they learned in the class to TikTok storytelling, DIY tutorials, and marketing pieces. | |
Dance Leadership
Learn to dance in lines, circles, squares & pairs. Dances taught can easily be incorporated into your program with a few tips and tricks shared by the leader. Dancing has been a social recreational activity for countless years and is a great way to get people up and moving. You will want comfortable shoes as we will be up and dancing most of the time! If you want to learn to call a dance or two this is a great class to call your first dance. | |
Handmade Journals
We will make handmade paper by recycling discarded/used paper sources. Natural materials can also be added into our paper to personalize it even more. Once our sheets have been made, we will individually design and make our leather covers. Finally we will learn the sewing techniques needed and hand bind our paper and covers to complete a journal, ready to take home for newfound joyful uses! | $25.00 |
Leading with Impact
This session is designed to help leaders elevate their impact by building stronger connections and navigating change with confidence. Participants will learn practical skills rooted in vulnerable leadership, emotional intelligence, and workplace love languages to better engage and support their teams. Through a relationship-first approach, leaders will explore how to manage themselves effectively while fostering trust and collaboration. Whether you're leading through transition or looking to inspire deeper engagement, this session will equip you with tools to lead with authenticity and purpose. | |
Magical Mosaics
Mosaics are decorative surfaces created by assembling small pieces of colored stone, glass, or other materials to form a picture or pattern. You'll learn the basics including glass/tile/china cutting, layout, and grouting. There will be a variety of projects from wall-hangings to micro-mosaic pendants. | $20.00 |
Melody Makers
Do you find yourself tasked with getting a group going on songs. Have you lead groups in the past but are looking for new songs or ways to pull your program together? Larry Hall and Tim Reynolds are two Buckeye alumni who love getting groups singing and creating community with music. Enjoy adopting various song leading styles, performance preparation and methods to inject music into your lives. We will look at setting the mood, sharing songs and gaining confidence in these skills. | |
Outdoor Cooking
Open to novices and those with a bit of experience to share; we will learn techniques for Dutch Oven cooking, foil packs, and simple stick cooking. We’ll cook up recipes suitable for breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts. | $25.00 |
Outdoor Potpourri
A Potpourri of Fun Outdoor Activities - nature based activities for your camps and outdoor programs. | |
Quilting 101
Quilting has been an art/crafts form for centuries but new methods and techniques have simplified our efforts.
In this class we will discuss all aspects involved in quilt making. You will become proficient with this easy- simple block so that you can duplicate to make the size quilt you desire. | |
Shut the Box Game
Participants would make and take home their own Shut the Box game. This is a combination board/dice game suitable for all ages. Great game for kids to work with math skills, counting, etc. | $20.00 |
Storybook Nature Class
Storybook nature class merges the idea of choosing your own adventure book with nature based tasks and team work. In this class you will run through 3 premade adventure books, deciding your own adventure and what tasks you choose to do. Each day we will process how it went, how you might incorporate this into your class, camp, or professional development. You will walk out with the 3 premade adventure books (at least one designed for the current site and 3 generic ones), and knowledge on how to create your own. | $10.00 |
Tabletop RPGs
In this class we will be learning how to play and teach tabletop roleplaying games, similar to Dungeons and Dragons, so they will be quick and easy to implement in group dynamics. The games we'll be playing will be short games that can be completed in one to two sessions and include a variety of genres. These games will be great to bring back to camps, youth groups, friend or family game nights, school clubs, and more! | |
Yarn Arts
Yarn arts classes offer a variety of engaging projects using yarn, including loom knitting, finger knitting, crocheting, knitting, and pom-pom making. These classes can be fun for both youth and adults, and are a great way to explore different fiber art techniques. We will try different yarn crafts and talk about ways to bring these activities back to your programs. | |