We enjoyed the spring snow before it melted away on Monday!
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Category Archives: Winter Activities
Hantesa Staff had Fun in the Snow!
Hantesa turned into a winter wonderland a while back. The staff took a break from the office and enjoyed sledding, snow ball fights, and snowman building!
Sledding with Sadie
Building our Snowman
Overnight: Outrageously Fun!
The first Outrageous Overnight was a great event for middle school campers. We started the night with a pizza party and then a trip to Climb Iowa, an indoor rock climbing gym in Grimes. After our adventures scaling the walls, we returned to Camp Hantesa for a night of fun. Ice Cream sundaes, Pocket Hunt, Friendship Bracelets, Games, movies, and some intense games of hide and seek rounded out the night. Everyone was tired in the morning, but we still mustered the energy to have a delicious breakfast, play some games, and create tye dye.
We can’t wait for our next overnight experience, and we hope to see everyone back for summer resident camp this summer!
Check out pictures from the night!
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Hantesa Candyland
The Camp Fire candy sale is in full swing. To kick off the sale, multiple groups came to our candy sculpture contest at Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines last weekend.
The Hantesa team built a replica of camp. How does it compare to your memories of camp?
Climbing Tower, Swinging Bridge, Pool, Horse Pasture, Campfire, GaGa... HANTESA!
GaGa Ball
Climbing tower
We can’t wait to see campers back at our facilities this spring and summer!
For more coverage of our candy sculpture event, check us out on channel 13!
http://www.whotv.com/videobeta/?watchId=0d87fa2c-6ea6-4972-8af7-60db724126d5
More Photos from Our Winter Camps!
Hiking in the Ledges with Resident Campers
Magic Hill at Winter Resident Camp
Who needs Times Square? Camp Hantesa has all the fun on NYE!
74 campers spent their New Year’s Eve with us at camp. We had a great night filled with pizza, games, crafts, movies, board-game tournaments, and, of course, lots of dancing! Check out a few of the pictures below!
We started the night with some zany games
We celebrated victories
The girls showed off their festive spirit
At midnight, campers made a wish to the Hantesa Good Fairy. They were also the first group to ever sing "2-0-1-2 at Hantesa"
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!!!
No Snow? No Problem! Every Day is fun at Hantesa!
We may have been a little disappointed to not have snow, however we had tons of fun all the same!
Check out pictures below from our winter camps this week!
Human Statues Game
A morning game of Twister
Lining up for a relay in the big room
"Down Hill" Bingo
GaGa!
We made masks on Wednesday!
Our staff like to play games too!
Practicing Skits
Day campers from Des Moines have a fun time singing during an afternoon bus ride.
Tower stacking competitions
New Buddies.
Singing songs after lunch.
Campers dressed up their counselors as "abominable snowmen" for an epic snow-counselor race
We love our campers!
Winter Fun at Camp Hantesa SDOs
We’ve had a lot of fun over the past couple of days at Camp Hantesa. Check out the pictures below. Many of them were taken by campers themselves during a photography option!
- Camp Hantesa woke up to a winter wonderland this morning!
Practicing Photography
Cheese!
Playing Snow Thicket
An afternoon 'roll down the hill!
Handmade puzzles
Team Huddle
New Friends
Painting Snow!
Winter Coats are Essentials!
