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Kids ‘R’ Kids Mini Camp
Survivor Skills Club
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Survivor Skills Club
Introduction
Welcome to the Survivor Skills Club! We are
excited for you to join the club. At the end
of this club, you will have many new survival
skills to get through any pandemic we may
face in the years to come.
The club is a group of campers in an isolated
location. The campers will complete
challenges for rewards and medals from
camp leaders (teachers). The campers are
motivated by their fellow campers every
week with chants, rhymes, and interactive
dances. The final week, one camper is given Camp Leaders
the title of “Sole Camper” and is awarded Have your campers in the club pick club
certificate for Summer Camp 2020. captains for each challenge. You can switch
campers on different teams each week for
Discussion the challenges to make sure everyone gets
What is the single most important thing you to work together throughout the summer or
need to survive in the wild? If you are keep consistent teams throughout entire
looking for insects to eat, which ones should summer. Record winning team after each
you avoid? Is it a good idea to build your challenge. Some of these challenges can be
shelter near water? Why should you try to done as a team while others as an individual.
avoid sleeping directly on the ground? Why Each challenge will focus on certain survival
should you melt snow or ice before drinking skills but many of these skills will be used
it? Which symptoms determines if you are each week.
experiencing severe dehydration? What
feature of the snake is used determine if the
snake is venomous? Which insects are the
most popular edible insect in the world?
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Challenge: Survivor Team Banners
Materials 2. Fold the top edge down to make a
• Cotton Fabrics (variety of colors) pocket for a 1” PVC pipe and sew
• Hot Glue Gun across the top. If you do not sew,
• PVC “t-connector” in 1” and 1 ½” you can do this with a hot glue gun.
• PVC pipe 18” length and 48” length 3. Pick the font of your choice and
(or longer depending on how long enlarge on word processor to print
you want the poles) out. Cut the letter from the paper so
• Fabric paint you can have a template for your
letters.
Preparation 4. Use the letter templates to help paint
Make camp banners for camp teams or the teams’ name on the banner.
individual campers you will have competing 5. For each banner you will need 1” PVC
in the Survivor challenges. These banners pipe in a 18” length and a 48” length
can be used to signal when a team is done (or longer depending on how long
with a relay and also to promote team pride. you want the poles) and a PVC “t-
Campers can choose the teams’ names from connector” in 1” and ½”.
your city, landmarks around town, or 6. Take the “t-connector” and place on
favorite animals. the backside or the banner in the
middle. Slip the “t-connector” into the
pocket of the banner so that the
larger ½ part is under the fabric and
the smaller 1” side is facing out.
7. Put the 18” piece of PVC pipe through
the pocket of the banner and through
the “t-connector”. Since the PVC pipe
connecter is larger than the 1” PVC
pipe, hot glue the two together
through the 1’ hole in the connector.
You have to use the larger connector
or the 1” PVC pipe won’t slide
through).
8. Hot glue the edges of the banner
Instructions pocket to the 18” PVC pipe inside to
1. Choose cotton fabrics in different secure the ends.
colors for each team - 2/3 yard each 9. Then attach the longer 48” piece of
or 24” of each color. PVC pipe to the connector and you’re
done!
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Challenge: Bamboo Relay
Materials
• 1 ½ or larger PVC pipe in foot
sections- one piece per team
• marbles
Preparation
The object of the challenge is to move
through an obstacle course while two
teammates hold opposite ends of the PVC
pipe with a marble inside it. If the marble
drops out during the relay, the two who
dropped it have to start again. This is harder
than it sounds and lots of fun.
Instructions
1. Make sure the campers hold the PVC
pipe about 6” from each end with
only one hand so they can’t stop the
marble from falling out with their
hands.
2. You can also run this relay with one
camper. Have them hold the PVC pipe
in the center with one hand.
3. For a real challenge add more
marbles or additional rounds adding
marbles each time.
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Challenge: Island Flip
Materials
• shower curtain or tablecloth for each
team
Preparation
The object of the game is to see which team
can flip their island (the shower curtain)
over first.
Instructions
1. All team members must stand on the
island and then try and flip it over
without stepping off the island.
2. If a player steps off the island they
must start again.
3. This is a mind challenge and is great
for team building.
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Challenge: Coconut Relay
Materials
• Ping pong balls
• Pool noodle for each team
• Cone or materials for creating a small
obstacle course
Preparation
This game works best indoors on a tile floor.
Set up an area with a cone of small, simple
obstacle course for maneuvering.
Instructions
The object of the game is for teams (or one
person at a time) to herd 3 ping pongs balls
(or coconuts) at the same time around an
obstacle course (or back and forth around
an orange cone) only using the end of the
pool noodle.
For outside, you can still use the ping pong
balls or balloons. Tip: the ping pong balls
can be colored with permanent markers in
the team colors to keep track of what
belongs to each team.
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Challenge: Rope Relay
Materials
• 25 feet of rope
• Brown, paper lunch sacks
• Kids’ puzzles with 30 or fewer pieces
(one for each team)
Instructions:
1. For each team you will need to break up
the puzzles and place about 2 or 3 pieces
of the puzzle in 8-10 lunch sacks (you
can also use zip lock bags). Fold the bags
over several times and use a hole punch
to make a hole in the top middle part of
the folded bags (the bags should be flat).
2. Tie a loop in the end of the long piece of
rope then string the rope through one of
the puzzle bags.
3. Tie a loose knot around the bag and then
tie several looser knots down the rope.
Then, put on another puzzle bag and
repeat until all the bags are tied onto the
rope and there are 6-10 knots in
between each bag.
4. Try and make each rope have the same
amounts of knots.
5. Hook the loop at the end of each rope
under the bottoms of a chair. The teams
should decide who will unknot the ropes
to get the puzzle pieces and who will
solve the puzzle.
6. Make sure that the players understand
they must unknot each knot on the rope
to get the puzzle pieces and they cannot
rip them off the rope.
7. When all puzzle bags have been collected,
the campers who have been chosen to
solve the puzzle can begin.
8. First team with all the knots out of their
rope and a finished puzzle wins.
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Challenge: Hula Circle Relay
Materials
• A hula hoop for each team
Instructions
1. Teams form a large circle and hold hands.
2. Please wash hands before and after the
challenge.
3. On “go”, each team is given a hula hoop
and they must break hands to put it on
the first person’s arm and then not let go
of their hands during the rest of the
challenge.
4. The teams must find a way to move the
hula hoop around their circle without
letting go of their hands.
5. Have the hula hoop go around the circle
2 or 3 times. The winning team is the
first ones to complete the circles.
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Challenge: Scavenger Hunt
Materials
• Coconuts • Fish
• Parrot • Banana
• Sand • Mango
• Palm tree leaf • Wooden bead
• Crab • Tiki torch,
• Fishing net • KRK logo
• Surfboard • Island dolls
• Tiki item • Picture of fire
• Seashell • Boat
• Shark • Rocks
*Can be a picture or an item that represents the item on the list
Instructions
Have teams go throughout the Summer Camp area and search for items that are
survivor related.
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Challenge: Frozen T Challenge
Materials
• T-shirt (one per camper)
• Water
• Gallon size zip lock bags
Instructions
1. Soak several t-shirts (one per camper)
in water.
2. Wad up and place in a gallon size
Ziploc bag with water.
3. Close the bag and put into the freezer
a few days before so they are
completely frozen.
4. During the challenge, tell the teams
to take the t-shirt out of the baggie
and the first team to get one of their
team campers to wear the shirt wins.
This is a fun challenge and is harder
than it sounds.
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