Description
At Camp Aladaiki campers are treated with a series of messages over the course of 5 days
that emphasize very important lessons that will matter for the rest of their lives.
They are:
God is always near…
“When Good Things Are Happeningâ€
“When Bad Things Happenâ€
“When I Am Afraidâ€
“When I Need Helpâ€
“When Nothing Is Happening.â€
The writers of CAMP!2 make it very clear that nothing can separate us from the love of God.
CAMP!2 addresses some of the biggest things in our lives that can distract us from God,
question God’s whereabouts in certain situations, or simply allow us to forget that God is really in our lives – all the time!
Features
- Where Aladaiki Campers have Aladaiki fun!
Every day at Camp Aladaiki consists of these elements:
Assembly – Where all campers gather together and sit in groupings of “cabinsâ€, sing original (and all new) songs, and finally receive the day’s theme and instructions for the day’s events with the help of the Camp Director, Kody and Beez!
Cabins dismiss from Assembly and enter into several rotating stations.
Stations are known as:
Arts and Crafts Lodge – Where campers make Aladaiki crafts!
Recreation Field – Where campers play Aladaiki games!
Nature Walk – Where campers go for a hike and watch a Bible story puppet show!
Dining Hall – Where campers make and eat Aladaiki snacks!
Each station is designed to last for 25 minutes and includes extensive instructions for camp staff to teach lesson’s pertaining to the day’s theme.
After cabins have explored all four station areas they arrive at The Council Fire.
Council Fire includes a lot of activities:
Kody and Beez kicking off the fun
Muskrat Cabin Players performing a skit
Poison Ivy Itch & Scratch Dancers leading sing-alongs
Groundskeeper sharing a poignant theme wrap-up
Camp Director dismissing the campers
5 complete days of activities are included with each purchase of camp. Its designed for a VBS, but can easily be adapted for Sunday School, 5 day clubs, or missions trips with structured kid’s activities. Plus, its got a whole lot of puppet scripts, dramas, songs, and stories that can be taken completely out of the context of VBS and used however you like. It’s a lot…
CAMP! 2 comes complete with 8 CDs.
CD 1 includes:
•Backing tracks with vocals of original Camp!2 Songs
•Kody & Beez dialog for Assembly and Council fire
•One pre-recorded audio promo designed to announce VBS registration (featuring Kody and Beez)
•One pre-recorded audio promo to help recruit volunteers for VBS (featuring Kody and Beez)
CD 2 includes:
•5 Pre-recorded Bible story puppet shows for the Nature Walk station
•Pre-recorded introductions and summations with Kody and Beez for each of the 5 Bible stories
4 puppeteers, 1 bear puppet, 1 bee puppet, 4 male puppets and 2 female puppets are needed to perform all of the puppets in CAMP! 2
CDs 3, 4, 5 & 6 include digital manuals for your station leaders
CD 7 has digital scripts and instruction manuals for your performance staff
CD 8 is the Director manual
As always, print as many copies of the manuals, instructions and scripts from the CDs as you like. Of course the entire VBS is written to be modular. Add more if you like, take out if you want, shorten if you wish, move things around! It’s all up to you. CAMP!2 was designed and written to make adjustments as easy as possible. HOWEVER: We highly recommend using puppeteers and Kody and Beez. In our tests, we have seen that even the weakest puppetry featuring Kody and Beez makes the curriculum exciting and much more entertaining for Campers. At the very least, we hope you have 2 puppeteers, a bear puppet and a bee puppet. Any other puppet parts can be removed or replaced, but Kody and Beez are integral to the overall “fun†of Camp Aladaiki.
DON’T HAVE ENOUGH PUPPETEERS? This might not be the VBS for you. However, if you wish you had puppeteers, but do not have enough (4), or not enough puppets (8) to do the complete Bible stories in the Nature Walk station you can skip that part. We have written other ideas to use the time during Nature Walk creatively. No problem.