SUMMER CAMP 2021 Traveling Thru Time

Visit the sights and sounds of the past and future with Firefly as we travel the timeline. We will be cooking, crafting, watching movies, doing activities, taking field trips, and let's not forget playing on our fabulous play structure! It's going to be a magical summer! Come explore with us!

Weeks are still being finalized and details worked out.

Each week is not set yet as we are determining activities and fieldtrips for each week. This is to give an idea of the thoughts for summer. Details and a final schedule will be up shortly. Based on the draft schedule, school will resume on August 23rd! Thank you for your patience!

Field Trips Not Theme Specific:

These will fill in each week. Children will go on an average of 3 fieldtrips per week

Three Lakes Park & Nature Center - aquarium, playground, spray park

Skate A Way- Roller Skating

Off the Wall- Bounce House

Putt Putt Fun Center

Bear Creek Lake or other swimming option

Powhatan Library- Masterpiece Monday/ Summer Storytime/ Music & Movement Storytime/ special Thursday

Bowling at King Pin Lanes

Local parks including Fighting Creek, Huguenot and Park365

Regal Summer Movies

Summer Camp Week 1 June 7-11

The FUTURE

Cooking:

Alien cupcakes

Alien fruit snacks

Alien jello cups

Activities:

Time travel entry door into Firefly

Create your own alien tube figure

Build a rocket and launch

Sprinkle party with ice cream sundaes

Craft with blue galaxy beads

Movies:

Muppets From Space

The Magical School Bus Rides Again: Kids in Space

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Skyrunners

Earth to Echo

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

Science Museum of VA - planetarium

Rockwood Park for orienteering

Summer Camp Week 2 June 14-18

Dinosaur Times

Cooking:

Dinosaur footprint cookies (sugar cookies with dinosaur feet imprints)

Make a fresh green salad for the herbivores (part of lunch)

Make hot dog bite skewers for the carnivores (part of lunch)

Activities:

Make dinosaur bones, bury them and then excavate them

How long is a dinosaur compared to a human?

Virtual dinosaur field trips

Dinosaur clothespin puppets

Movies:

Ice Age

Walking with Dinosaurs

The Land Before Time

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

R. Garland Dodd Park at Point of Rocks

Summer Camp Week 3 June 21-25

The Stone Age

Cooking:

Blackberries mixed with honey

Honey lime rainbow fruit salad

Activities:

Cave paintings

Make a clay caveman necklace

Movies:

The Flintstones

The Croods

Early Man

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

Swift Creek Berry Farm

Three Lakes Park and Nature Center

Summer Camp Week 4 june 28- july 2

The Ancient World

Cooking:

Cook rice

Cheese & fruit tasting with breads and crackers

Make your own pizza

Activities:

Eat with chopsticks

Chariot races with roller seats

Build the Great Wall of China

Gods and Goddesses Jeopardy game

Movies:

Hercules

Percy Jackson & the Olympians:The Lightning Thief

Clash of the Titans

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

The Olive Oil Taproom

Summer Camp Week 5 July 5 - July 9

The Middle Ages

Cooking:

Make Medieval gingerbread for feast

Make cheese and fruit trays for feast

Make nonalcoholic mead for feast

Make smothered bread

Activities:

Create your own coat of arms

Create a Medieval banquet hall

Reenact a Medieval feast

Eat food on trenchers

Medieval castle maze

Build a Medieval castle

Decorate your own crown

Play Nine Men’s Morris game

Joust with pool noodles

Movies:

Brave

How to Train Your Dragon

Quest for Camelot

The Sword in the Stone (animated)

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

SUMMER CAMP WEEK 6 JULY 12- JULY 16

Age of Exploration

Cooking:

Make hard tack biscuits

Make fresh lemonade/limeade for the “Limeys”

Make chocolate fudge or chocolate chip cookies

Activities:

Treasure hunt with pirate map

Movies:

The Princess Bride

Treasure Island

Muppet Treasure Island

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

Henricus- Mapping the James River

Summer Camp Week 8 July 26- July 30 SUMMER CAMP WEEK 7 JULY

Revloutionary War Era

Cooking:

Cast iron skillet cornbread and stew

Roasted corn on the cob

Apple pie tartlets

Activities:

Paperball fight - Patriots vs. Redcoats from England

American symbols poster

Bill of Rights poster

Branches of government poster

Movies:

Johnny Tremain

The Crossing

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

Rockwood Park for orienteering

Williamsburg

SUMMER CAMP WEEK 8 JULY 26- JULY 30

Westward Expansion- Wild West

Cooking:

Hobo packs for lunch

Hot dogs and baked beans for lunch

Activities:

Oregon Trail game

Make their own dreamcatchers

Dig for gold

Indian Bead Craft

Movies:

An American Tail: Fievel goes West

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

Mesa Vista farm for group horseback riding experience

Henricus- Indian children

SUMMER CAMP WEEK 9 AUGUST 2 - 6

The Age of Invention / Industrial Revolution

Cooking:

Assembly line cooking activities

Invent your own sandwich from a buffet of ingredients

Activities:

Create your own invention

Explore rooms at different time periods

Assembly line team to build sample item

Movies:

History of Flight by Professor Von Drake (Disney)

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

Richmond Railroad Museum

Taylor Made Chocolate Factory

SUMMER CAMP WEEK 10 AUGUST 9 - 13

The 1950's

Cooking:

Wacky Cake (Dump cake)

Ambrosia

Chex party mix

Jello molds using Lego molds

Beef Stroganoff

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Activities:

Milkshake and burger day

Sock hop/dress up day

Bike riding in the park

Movies:

Back to the Future I

Chicken Run

October Sky

Theme Specific Field Trip(s):

River City Diner for lunch

Skate A Way

Final Week : WEEK 11 AUGUST 16 - 20 Olympic Games

Activities:

Nerf Wars

Minute To Win It

Relay Races

Oh so much more!

Movies:

Mr. Peabody and Sherman - PG (Time travel)

Night at the Museum trilogy

This is America, Charlie Brown - NR

American Girl movies

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

Hercules

Travel with Us

Summer 2021

Our weekly rate for summer camp is $195 which is due on Monday by 9:00 am for the current week. The weekly rate includes all fees for the activities except the one major field trip of the summer. A non-refundable deposit of $100.00 is due upon registration for summer camp to be applied to the first week of attendance at summer camp. You only pay for the weeks that you commit for your child/children to attend.

We will be doing many activities throughout the summer. We have broken them down into categories. The cooking category is what the children will be cooking. Different age groups will cook on different days. These are not all of the activities, field trips, etc. we will be doing, just a sample for each week. The movie lists are not definite. It is a sample of what we could possibly show during the week. Everyone will not do all of the activities/movies/field trips. They will be selected according to age appropriateness. When age isn’t a factor, all will participate. Not every child will go to the Virginia Museum or Summer Storytime at the Powhatan Library but all could go swimming/mini-golfing.

Spin through the ages with us