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Hawaiian Hullabaloo
Here are five suggestions. Leave yours in the comments area below.
- Leis, Grass skirts and Hawaiian shirts are required.
- Download Limbo Rock and get a stick, because kids love to limbo.
- Use butcher paper and create surfboard shapes. Each cabin group will decorate their surfboard. Hang them in the dining hall and have a contest. Awards for the best-looking, most artistic, craziest, etc. should be given out. Afterward, groups should hang them in their own cabins.
- Seashell necklaces and bracelets make great crafts.
- Give the campers a Hawaiian word of the day.
1. Hold a luau – Sweet and Sour meatballs and rice, fruit kabobs, coconut pudding, Lots of fresh fruit – pineapple, papaya, mangoes, passion fruit, Hawaiian Punch. Make sure you have Hawaiin music playing.
2. Paper mache a volcano and once dry use baking soda and vinegar to watch it erupt!
3. Play beach volleyball, suntan, fly kites, toss water balloons – you are in the land of sun, enjoy the outdoors!
Nice Laureen. I’m ready for a luau.
Love these ideas! Thanks, so much!
we did a luau day and did pass the pineapple between the legs!! very funny…also a fruit buffet to make their own smoothies. deelish
Ah, smoothies. Yum!
On our Hawaiian Day, we hand out a page to each bunk that teaches them how to translate their first names into Hawaiian. We also give them markers and name stickers pre-printed with “Aloha! My name is” for them to fill out. Throughout the day, everyone addresses everyone else by their Hawaiian names only.
The how-to is available on numerous web sites when you Google something along the lines of “translate your name into Hawaiian.”
Here’s one example:
http://www.alohafriends.com/name.html
What a cool experience for those kids!
Great ideas for my Girl Scout summer camp!!! Thanks
Love the ideas for our summer camp also! Thanks so much Laureen!
hula hoop contest
These are such great ideas to explore for our day camp! So excited to see what my staff comes up with so that we can hopefully share with you all.
Make a volcano cake with a chocolate Bundt cake. Fill the middle with chocolate ice cream and mold the ice cream over the top to look like a volcano. Then cover with finely crushed Oreos (ashes). Drizzle with strawberry flavored syrup for the fire. The kids love it! Just make sure they have somewhere to burn off all of the sugar!
Oh, that sounds good, Julie. Thanks for sharing.
For a craft, they children can design their own Hawaiian Shirt.