CORONAVIRUS UPDATE... camp status and alternatives plus new online village
16th March 2020
It's official... we have closed the April camps. The last thing we would want to do is jeopardise the health of anyone in our Bluegum family. And as the camps fall smack bang in the projected curve weeks of controlling spread of the coronavirus, we're calling them off.
Our next camps are Spring 2020. You can transfer your deposit to this camp.
OR
you can attend our virtual camp, which is going to be epic!
The invitation is for families to camp at home. Set up your tents or sleeping mats in the lounge room. Use no electricity for the week (ok, parents, you can have the office on, but please shut the door!)... no TV, only candles or head torches at night. Either cook on the BBQ or build a little fire in the backyard if you can. Or get a small gas cooker and do your meals on that. No electric lights at all. No cheating!!
Every morning we will have a village meeting via zoom conferencing. The kids will break into normal groups... wildlings, saplings, possums, trailseekers, pathfinders, with gorgeous mentors leading each group. The groups will meet on zoom to figure out what the daily challenges and activities are as we work through the Rewild curriculum.
For example... go out and find animals near the house, make a shelter in the backyard, set up a tracking box and run the dog or the cat through it to look at tracks. Learn about bird language and go listen to the birds and understand what they are saying. We can teach the kids cordage and baskets and fire and all the things we normally do, they just do it from home. The kids will go do fun things and then meet back with their mentors and their group to debrief.
Parents, while the kids are hanging out with their mentors, the opportunity will be there for daily check in circles with Gina. Lee will do a Rapport Based Relating workshop, we'll get you learning some emergency prep skills as well if you want, and open up to discussions about emergency preparedness in general.
Afternoons will be time off as usual, and then at night we'll gather for postcards of the day and story telling and singing. I've got a couple of great new songs to teach everyone. We can even have a mini talent quest one night.
The invitation will be to stay without electric lights for the whole five days, to have daily challenges as a family for emergency preparedness, to even sleep outside a night or two.
It's only $330 per child for the whole 5 days, with no family fee.
I'll be sending out an email in the next day or so to everyone detailing your options.
Until then, so much love.
Gina (Camp Mama)
It's official... we have closed the April camps. The last thing we would want to do is jeopardise the health of anyone in our Bluegum family. And as the camps fall smack bang in the projected curve weeks of controlling spread of the coronavirus, we're calling them off.
Our next camps are Spring 2020. You can transfer your deposit to this camp.
OR
you can attend our virtual camp, which is going to be epic!
The invitation is for families to camp at home. Set up your tents or sleeping mats in the lounge room. Use no electricity for the week (ok, parents, you can have the office on, but please shut the door!)... no TV, only candles or head torches at night. Either cook on the BBQ or build a little fire in the backyard if you can. Or get a small gas cooker and do your meals on that. No electric lights at all. No cheating!!
Every morning we will have a village meeting via zoom conferencing. The kids will break into normal groups... wildlings, saplings, possums, trailseekers, pathfinders, with gorgeous mentors leading each group. The groups will meet on zoom to figure out what the daily challenges and activities are as we work through the Rewild curriculum.
For example... go out and find animals near the house, make a shelter in the backyard, set up a tracking box and run the dog or the cat through it to look at tracks. Learn about bird language and go listen to the birds and understand what they are saying. We can teach the kids cordage and baskets and fire and all the things we normally do, they just do it from home. The kids will go do fun things and then meet back with their mentors and their group to debrief.
Parents, while the kids are hanging out with their mentors, the opportunity will be there for daily check in circles with Gina. Lee will do a Rapport Based Relating workshop, we'll get you learning some emergency prep skills as well if you want, and open up to discussions about emergency preparedness in general.
Afternoons will be time off as usual, and then at night we'll gather for postcards of the day and story telling and singing. I've got a couple of great new songs to teach everyone. We can even have a mini talent quest one night.
The invitation will be to stay without electric lights for the whole five days, to have daily challenges as a family for emergency preparedness, to even sleep outside a night or two.
It's only $330 per child for the whole 5 days, with no family fee.
I'll be sending out an email in the next day or so to everyone detailing your options.
Until then, so much love.
Gina (Camp Mama)
plus... CHECK OUT the new online village...
how to thrive in any emergency
ongoing online day-long workshops with lee and gina.
And now, back to our regular Bluegum scheduling :)
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