The August Break

Camp Bergenholtz 2015 Plans and Schedule plans and ideas
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
PRE-CAMP BERGENHOLTZ August 9 Pirates and Wenches Weekend	10 Make costume for Medieval Feast.	11 Make beachbucket lunches with pb and jellyfish sandwiches and oyster cookies for lunch on the road, World War II Games and Cape Henlopen	12 Make an accessory to go with the costume for the Medieval feast.	13 Make crest for shield and pennant flags for the Medieval feast.	14 Auditions for Murder at the Banquet	15 Young Eagles flights, 10-3
16 Make games for the Medieval feast tournament.	17 Twig Sign Craft	18 (Steven's Doctor's appt.)	19 HEES Ice Cream Social	20 Make food for Medieval feast and 60's party.	21 ( 1st Evening of Camp) 60's Evening, Fondue Dinner, Tie Dye T-shirts, Yard Twister, Colored Candy to match tie dye shirts	22 Finish T-shirts, Medieval Feast with presentations, tournament and game night
23 Salisbury Zoo (9-4:30 Daily) Paddle Boats (12-6 Sat & Sun)	24 Betterton Beach Day: kite flying, sandcastle making, painting outside, beach candles,	25  Drive to and Camp at Wharton St. Park, Valley Forge (9 AM - 5 PM daily.) Washington Crossing	26 Camping at Wharton St. Park, Trenton	27 Camping at Wharton St. Park, Philadelphia	28 Philadelphia, Drive Home; Make Walking Sticks,	29 Maryland Renaissance Festival
30 Letterboxing,  Movie Night	31 Magic the Gathering Party, Eat Outside Day, bubbles and 'smores	September 1 Sculpting with Fondant, Dungeons and Dragons with Hope and Eddie	2 Drive to and Camp at French Creek St. Park, Hershey Park	3 Camping and Hiking at French Creek State Park, drive home	4 Roller Skating?	5 Go to Chesapeake Beach,  Fossil Hunting, Chesapeake Beach, Letterboxing Nagoya
6 Maryland Crab Boil, Crab Cupcakes	7 Labor Day Drive Home & Prepare for work and school.	8 First Day of School school cones!	9  First Day of  Co-op

Memorial Day: My Summer Bucket List 2015: Family Summer Fun with Teens and Tweens

1. Have a 11th birthday party for Quentin.
2. Have an 18th birthday party for Sam.
3. Go camping at Cape Henlopen.
4. Fall asleep in a hammock.
5. Make frozen hot chocolate.
6. Decorate walking sticks.
7. Have a dinner party outside.
8. Eat Maryland Blue Crabs.
9. Sleep overnight on the trampoline.
10. Eat lots of watermelon.
11. Decorate summer flip-flops.
12. Have a picnic.
13. Make monster bubbles.
14. Make a miniature pond in a pot or half-barrel.
15. Collect shells at the beach.
16. Start a new tradition.
17. Take pictures at a photo-booth with my family.
18. Watch the sun set or sun rise at the beach.
19. Tie messages on balloons and let them go.
20. Make some kind of new refreshing summer drink.
21. Go for a paddleboat ride.
22. Pick fruit.
23. Make a craft using shells.
24. Have game days/nights with friends.
25. Go kayaking.
26. Fly a kite.
27. Attend theatre.
28. Make gifts at a Christmas in July party.
29. Celebrate the first day of summer.
30. Have a 14 1/2 birthday party for James.
31. Have a 21st birthday party for Alex.
32. Have a cake decorating party.
33. Have a cookie creation party.
34. Go to a zoo.
35. Do pendulum painting.
36. Make an ice cream cake.
37. Go to an amusement park.
38. Play with balloons.
39. Go bowling.
40. Try a new dessert recipe.
41. Go roller skating.
42. Make aqua sand.
43. Go swimming.
44. Celebrate the 4th of July.
45. Make stamps for letterboxing.
46. Go get ice cream cones.
47. Go letterboxing.
48. Have an ice cream sundae bar.
49. Make a summer craft like plaster flowers or lavender wands.
50. Make candles.
51. Play at the Park with friends.
52. Fly in an airplane.
53. Make and float boats.
54. Go to Family Field days.
55. Go to a Bastille day party at Pat's.
56. Make something with macrame.
57. Make a hovercraft.
58. Make a screenprinting project.
59. Go to theater camp and be in a play.
60. Make a terrarium.
61. Play pong battleship.
62. Go to a neighborhood celebration.
63. Make and play with Fondant or Marzipan.
64. Make a lamp.
65. Have a progressive dinner.
66. Go on a nature walk.
67. Go shopping with friends.
68. Go to Red Robin with friends.
69. Get 1/2 price shakes at Sonic.
70. Make a Green man.
71. Do a Chopped competition.
72. Get a dog.
73. Go to a game shop with friends.
74. Spend time with my BFF.
75. Game night at home.
76. Cook a meal together.
77. Movie and Popco at home.
78. Go to World War II games at Fort Miles.
79. Go to a coffee shop with a deck of cards.
80. Go to a restaurant just for desserts.
81. Go to a waterpark.
82. Have a Magic the Gathering party.
83. Have a beach party with sandcastle sandwiches.
84. Make a summer music playlist.
85. Go tubing.
86. Tie-dye T-shirts.
87. Go to a baseball game.
88. Go to a Renaissance Faire.
89. Go swimming at night.
90. Go to the Farmer's Market.
91. Ride bikes on a trail.
92. Make sandcastles.
93. Practice Tai Chi at the beach.
94. Catch fireflies.
95. Go to a Pirate festival.
96. Make a treasure hunt.
97. Paint with Acrylics outside.
98. Go to a historical museum or site.
99. Go camping in a different state.
100. Go out to lunch with friends.
101. Have a Medieval feast.
102. Make "tie-dyed" candy.

Summer Fun #26 : Outdoor Lights

 We decided that we wanted to eat a fancy dinner outside one night this summer and so we decided to make some outside lighting to go with it. We started out with some quart canning jars, added some sand and a candle. I added a wire handle and some cord for decoration.

 James decided to add some finds from the beach in his and he glued some shells on the outside as well.

My sister-in-law, Brenda made us this outside light by painting a jar with glitter glue and adding some river stones in addition to a candle inside. This traveled really well, as we just put the top back on it and packed it each time we needed to go. In this way, we could take it to each campsite we went to.

As it turns out, it was too hot to eat outside this summer, so we used them to decorate the table inside and had a beautiful candlelight dinner one night.

Labor Day: What I did on my Summer Vacation

Remember my Summer Bucket List I made on Memorial Day? Well, here is the list again, with the things we accomplished crossed out. How was your summer?

Make a countdown to summer banner.

Go to the Ocean beach+

Write messages in note cards stick them in balloons and send them off

Play with Zentangles

Make no-sew T-Shirt bags.

Send 13 oz. or less mail

Go to the water park

Go fishing

Create adventure journals to record the summer

Give each child a disposable camera and a blank book and tell them to document their life for a week..or two

Practice wood carving

Have a 17th birthday party for Sam

Have a sleepover on the trampoline

Make watermelon sorbets in lime shells

Go roller-skating

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Go Bowling

Go to the Farmer's market

Have a first day of summer part

Take advantage of the summer foods and grilling.
Make sunprints

Go to a pirate festival.

Make/Go on a Scavenger hunt

Go to Sonic for half-priced shakes

Have fun with Family Game nights.

Go stargazing or watch a meteor shower...if there is one this summer.

Make a kaleidoscope

Make Tie dye T-shirts

Play games in the backyard

Make an art journal

Go to Amazon Fullfillment Center.

Play volleyball at the beach

Make bottlecap necklaces

Catch fireflies

Have a pizza party with a Make-Your-Own Pizza bar and a Make-Your-Own Fruit Pizza bar for dessert

Go to a museum (Air Mobility Command Museum, Calvert Marine Museum, Goddard Visitor's Center NASA)

Play with balloons

Go to a National park...Jr. Ranger program?

Crack marbles in the oven, and perhaps make jewelry out of them

Go to the zoo (Plumpton Park Zoo)

Make hemp cord bracelets

Make Scandinavian Shaved Wood Ornaments for Christmas in July 

Have a waffle bar 

Make Watermelon Treat Packets

Make beaded spiders 

Make handmade soap with shells, etc. in them 

Visit my dear sister-in-law and best friend, Brenda.

Make beach sand candles 

Make shell prints 

See fireworks

Have a picnic on the beach 

Play games at the beach 

Go to Ms Pat's Pre-Bastille Day Party.

Make macrame candle holders and hang them. Light them at night. 

Transfer pictures to tiles

Have a sundae bar.

Have a cake decorating party 

Have a 20th birthday party for Alex 

Fly in a plane with Young Eagles 

Drive-in movie or Movie night  (Holes)

Go camping 

Preserve a spider web 

Make an origami boat 

Make bread clay 

Go to China town or Little Italy? 

Have a bonfire

 

Go swimming 

Send a message in a bottle 

Light a dandelion on fire 

Celebrate the 4th of July.

Take photos from a photo booth 

Make indestructible bubbles 

Go on a biking trail

Make a kite 

Fly a kite 

Have Brown Cows, Black Cows and other Ice Cream Sodas.

Teach Sam and Katie how to drive

 

Go to a restaurant with a group of friends  (Does two count as a group?)

Go Puddle jumping 

Make homemade ice cream

Take the Fort Miles Lantern Tour

Find a four leaf clover 

Sleep under the stars 

Make a watermelon cake.

Buy an underwater camera and take photos 

Build sandcastles 

Take easels down to the beach and paint 

Make freezer paper stencils

 

Have a Seafood Boil.

Make a leaf bowl 

Make walking sticks.

Go see a play (South Pacific).

Make tin box scene magnets for the fridge from a mint's tin 

Make homemade cookies using a new recipe. (These are not exactly homemade, but with a little help from Pillsbury, we made these sand dollar cookies.)

Have a cookies and milk bar with pink milk, banana milk, chocolate milk, vanilla milk.... 

Go on lots of picnics

Glo-stick hide and seek 

Go on nature walks 

Make lanterns 

Make a beachy picture frame 

Make a gift for friends 

Make lots of s'mores.

Make balloon and sand juggling balls 

Make a summer banner.

Create a backyard sign of places we've traveled to. 

Camp in a yurt 

Go to South Mountain.

Make floating candles 

Make glue batik

Go letterboxing 
Make a backyard chalkboard 

Make our own personalized mugs with Sharpies 

Take a moonlit walk in PJ's 

Start a collection and keep it all summer 

Have a backyard campout

Doodle on rocks 

Do pendulum painting 

Paint with condensed milk 

Put in and attend to a vegetable garden

Have a garden party...eat dinner outside 

Make a pond in a barrel 

Get snowcones from an ice cream truck at the beach 

Go to Great Falls/Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

Make a sand pile and a rock pile in the backyard 

Spray Garden stones with glow in the dark paint so that they will glow at night 

Play with ice when it is hot

Raise silkworms 

Let paper lanterns go 

Have fun with the rock tumbler.

Take a summer park tour of all the parks in the area and have popcorn in the park one day and do science experiments at the park another day. Leave coins on the playground for children to find after we are gone. 

Go strawberry picking

Make a bean teepee or a sunflower house 

Play with sidewalk chalk 

Make a firepit 

Go to Antietam/Sharpsburg, MD

Make an outdoors pulley 

Make a bamboo wind chime 

Make a waterwall 

Celebrate James 13 1/2 birthday

Paint with marbles 

Go to a pet shop just for fun 

Go to Red Robin.

Make a tin can howler 

Make a fort in the woods or backyard 

Go to a Renaissance Fair 

Go to a Western Themed park 

Have a tea time taste test 

Play games with rocks...how many can we come up with? 

Camp in a Treehouse.

Make a hovercraft 

Learn screenprinting 

Go to Harper's Ferry.

Make floating boat luminaries to float at night 

Make wire sculptures 

Get a dog 

Eat at a real diner.

Make Alcohol Ink Drink Coasters

Make an embroidered painting 

Go to an Art Museum (Anne Marie Garden and Arts Center).

Eat Popsicles IN the swimming pool. 

Become acquainted with three local birds. 

Make a summer table decoration.

Go on an “Early Bird” adventure. Get up at the crack of dawn, stay dressed in PJs for a sunrise picnic breakfast and walk on the beach. 

Go on one-on-one adventures with each child. Have them pick the destination. 

Catch frogs. 

 

Make a watermelon print summer table cloth.

Make shrinky-dink rings 

Do textured coloring 

Make plaster dipped flowers 

Visit a Lighthouse (Drum Point Lighthouse, Maryland)

Make lavender wands 

Make beach houses with shell roofs 

How many different natural places can we go this summer? Stream, ocean, fields, mountains, woods, pond.... 

For more Summer Fun ideas, check out my Summer Bucket List board on Pinterest.

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