How about your Scouts? How about their parents? This podcast features advice for Scouters attending summer camp and parents who are staying home. I’ll discuss ten things that will make life at summer camp smooth sailing for you and your Scouts, and also share some things parents can do to prepare their Scouts and themselves for […]
Summer Camp
Summer Camp Survey
How was your troop’s week at camp this summer? Summer camp can be the most important week in a patrol and troop’s year – it’s challenging, adventurous, and full of possibility. How well did the camp you attended this summer provide those sorts of opportunities for your Scouts? The summer camp survey is designed for Scout troops who have […]
Scoutmaster Podcast 269 – Parents and Summer Camp
We prepare our Scouts, but how about their parents? How can we help parents make it though the first week of summer camp? Entrusting the full-time care of your child to someone for such a long time, for the first time, can be challenging for parents. In this podcast I offer some ideas you can share […]
Summer Camp Resources
It’s a privilege to accompany Scouts to summer camp, the greatest week in a patrol’s year. We seize every opportunity to let the Scouts do things independently. While at camp I put myself and the other adults of guests and observers. We define our area in the campsite (not the choice, prominent most comfortable area- give […]
Letters From Camp – Day Seven
Letters from camp day seven is a montage of the weekend at Camp Horseshoe – Paul Bunyan Field Day, OA call-out at Saturday retreat, and Sunday lunch.
Letters From Camp – Day Six
Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe
Letters From Camp – Day Five
Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe
Letters From Camp – Day Four
Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe
Letters From Camp – Day Three
Hello from Camp Horseshoe! You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe
Letters From Camp – Day Two
Hello from Camp Horseshoe! Send me an email me via Troop 24 Kennett Square and I’ll reply via one of the video Letters from Summer Camp this week. You can check out the live webcam too. Here’s more information about Camp Horseshoe
Summer Camp Letters- Day One
DAY ONE This is the forst of several summer camp letters from Chester County Council’s Camp Horseshoe. Horseshoe offers one of the last seven day traditional Boy Scout summer resident camp programs in the country. With over 40+ merit badge choices, a stellar first-year program, computer lab, STEM offerings, a multitude of SIP’s as well […]
Podcast 228 – Parents & Summer Camp
Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Parent’s spend a lot of time preparing Scouts for summer camp, but have they prepared themselves? Do parents know what goes on at camp? This week I offer some advice directed at parents (especially of younger Scouts) that will help make the experience for them and their Scouts a positive one. […]
Podcast 226 – Scouts at Camp
Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers We are at our best as Scouters when we act as guides and use responsive leadership, it’s something we all need to work on, so this week my thoughts about three types of leaders. In answer to an email question I also offer some ideas for what Scouts ought to be […]
Two Things You (probably) Didn’t Think About Taking to Summer Camp.
Two humble things find a number of uses at summer camp; clothespins and index cards. I usually have a pocket full of index cards, and use them all day long to take notes, leave messages, and post reminders or notices for youth leaders. With clothespins or thumbtacks I can clip them to a tent flap, a branch, or pin them […]
Scout Law at Summer Camp – Infographic
While the twelve points of the Scout law at summer camp isn’t different than the Scout law anywhere else the week we spend together in the company of other Scouts is a great opportunity to discover how the Scout law applies to everything we do. Available as a PDF document. (see the download link below) Get dozens of Scouting […]
An Ontario Scouting Adventure
John Wiebke Scoutmaster of Troop 358 in Zionsville, Indiana, shares his summer plans (and what great plans they are!) Nothing makes the winter pass quicker than looking forward to a great summer adventure! Every other year our troop travels to Ontario, Canada, for summer camp at Haliburton Scout Reservation (three hours north of Toronto on Lake Kennabi) […]
Which Scout Summer Camp?
Two troops, same Scout summer camp, same week; one troop has a wonderful time and goes home smiling, one has a difficult time and leaves unhappy. I observed hundreds of troops and thousands of Scouts As a staff member and camp director for a dozen summers. I can tell you one thing that makes or breaks a […]
Summer Camp Solar Homing Beacon
Here’s a clever idea from Camp Wanderer that combines a canning jar and the top section of a solar re-charged garden light to create a lighted container for things like matches at camp. While I am at summer camp I’ll have a jar sitting on my picnic table with a spare headlamp or small flashlight inside […]
Scout Camp – For Better or For Worse
Scout camp has a number of benefits that we sometimes miss! For Better or For Worse Comic Strip, July 06, 2013 on GoComics.com.
A Scouter’s Summer Camp Schedule
Here’s a Scouter’s summer camp schedule: Time Scouts Scouters [6:45] AM Awakened by the SPL and PL’s. Flag is raised and all Scouts go to polar bear swim as a group. I used to get up and go to Polar Bear swim years ago (like 15 or so) but I think it’s important for the […]
Scoutmaster Podcast 175 – Summer Camp
This edition of the Scoutmaster Podcast I share ten things that will help make your summer camp stay this year a success and answer an email question about the patrol leader’s council. All this and your messages in the mailbag! Visit our YouTube Channel! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | […]
Summer Camp Advice For Scouters
Summer camp advice for Scouters from a former camp director. When I was a camp director the Scouts were never really a significant challenge. My biggest challenges often came from the ‘adult’ leaders who accompany the Scouts to camp. Don’t over-do it and make yourself into a time bomb. When hot tired, hungry, and thirsty get cool, rested, fed, and hydrated. […]
Rethinking Summer Camp Merit Badges
What are your expectations for summer camp merit badges? To most of us and to nearly all of our Scouts the central feature of the week at camp is earning merit badges. But what if it wasn’t? What if Scouts exchanged earning summer camp merit badges for learning and doing the things that actually interest them, the kind […]
Working With Homesick Scouts
If you are headed off to camp this summer it’s likely you will be working with one or more homesick Scouts. Understanding, preventing and treating homesickness ought to be approached like administering first aid for any other illness or injury. Homesickness is not imaginary, it’s not an indication of weakness or lack of character, it’s […]
