Girls Camp 2015: Oh, The Places You'll Go

A couple of weeks ago I got the awesome privilege of being one of two girls camp directors for the Burch Creek 7th Ward. I'm being totally honest when I say that it was extremely hard and a HUGE learning experience. When I was sitting in the bishops office I felt totally confident in accepting the calling, as I was walking out to the car I had second thoughts. Enough that I wanted to run back into the church building and decline! Well... obviously I didn't do that. So we met and began the fast tracked two months of planning leading up to girls camp. We had a wonderful missionary couple in our ward that let us stay at their cabin in Bear Lake and we planned a ton of really fun activities for the girls but spent most of our time on the beach getting tan which was LOVELY! Girls camp ended up being everything we had hoped it would be. All of the hard work was ABSOLUTELY worth it!
I am so grateful for all of the help that we received from family and friends in planning and carrying out our plans. Here are a few of the things that we came up with for the girls.
Journals:
We compiled the required scriptures for the girls to read and put them into a special journal for them. We also attached a packet on the back to keep their parent letter and hand outs in. These took FOREVER to make and my mom and sisters helped immensely. It was by far one of my favorite projects that we did for the girls/ Here are a few of the pages from the journal.

 Pillow Treats:
My sweet grandparents donated these for our girls. They were so fun!

Welcome Bags:
We had several girls attending camp that were not consistent and many didn't know each other so we wanted to provide name tags among other things for the girls once they got to camp. There was camp itinerary/name tag, song book, theme explanation, and welcome card explaining what year the specific girl is and a pack of mentos "up2u" gum attached to it.

Decorations:
It always pays to have a mom and aunt who teach school, who also happened to have Dr. Seuss themed classrooms a few years back. They let us borrow their decorations to hang on the cabin. My favorite decoration was the giant sneetch that my mom used to use as a job chart. It had just enough pockets attached to the front of it for us to use it as a "secret sneetch" where the girls could write nice notes about each other and fill the pockets.

Crafts:
We did a few crafts up at camp. Two of which were an "embark" (that is the YW theme this year) key chain and some decorative blocks for the girls bedrooms. The girls did a great job of putting them together and it looked like they had a lot of fun in the process.