Winter Resident Camp is the Best!

Winter Overnight Camp

Many Hantesa campers joined in on our winter resident camp. These girls and boys had the ultimate camp experience as they spent 4 days and 3 nights at Hantesa. Swimming, bowling, hiking, and crafting rounded out their experience. It was a great 4 days with these campers. We can’t wait to see them back at Hantesa for our Summer Resident Camps!

On Friday evening, we headed to the bowling alley for strikes, pizza, and lots of giggles!

Some of our boys at the bowling alley

We made foil packs during a camp fire cookout. However, since the weather was so blustery, we cooked our foil packs inside over the fire.

We learned how to do copper enameling!

Copper ready to go into the kiln for the enameling process.

One of our campers turned 12 during resident camp. Happy Birthday!!!

 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?!

On the day before Thanksgiving we welcomed 20 students from Des Moines for one of our signature “School Day Off” programs. The theme for the day was “The Big Idea,” and campers were given a chance to tackle a number of momentous tasks.

The first was to create Rube Golberg machines to place a marble into a measuring cup in the most complicated way possible. Then we spent some time thinking about what we were thankful for, and using those ideas to dress our turkey.  In the afternoon, we enjoyed the record warmth by playing in the climbing tree. Enjoy the slide show and don’t forget to register for our Winter programs!

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