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I am hosting a Catholic girls camp for the next 3 weeks. Each day we are learning a new homemaking skill. Knitting, canning, bread making, candle making etc.
OK my question is...I need "filler" material. WE are having a tea at mid point, but what to do during bread rising time? I don't necessarily need a craft, I was thinking of a scripture reading on Womanhood, or some church document. It needs to be interesting for 9-13 yr olds.
It could be a craft, or related material to topic of the day.
I need all you to give me some ideas quick! I have the printer and laminator on stand by 
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Do you have an active time planned? Girls this age (I have an 11 yr old) still need to run and let loose. How about some outside games like tag or red rover? It's always fun to play those games when you get a group together. Also, maybe a scavenger hunt one day?
Another idea would be learning some hymns or other songs to sing together.
What an undertaking! Good luck and God bless you for doing it. 
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Could be a good time for a rosary. Or perhaps another prayer, learn a new one each day, maybe some Latin even? Put on some pretty music and read aloud from a devotional?
Or, going in a different direction, play some sort of team building type games? Here is a great source of some fun ones:team building games
I really like these types of games at camps because they really help to build camaraderie and break the ice.
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How about some Catholic trivia type games. I don't know whether you could find some questions online or make up questions yourself. Actually Friendly Defender site has a short quiz.
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There are some Catholic board games too.
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Just some crazy ideas off the top of my head.
How about incorporating some etiquette and homemaking tips during the breaks?
For example, how to set the table, formal and informal. If you want it to be active, set up teams and do relay races to see the fastest and most accurate?
How to make a centerpiece, how to iron tablecloths and napkins. Folding napkins (always fun). How to clean spots!!
Some of the Montessori practical life activities for older girls, such as handwashing and ironing, polishing silver.
Quiz of patron saints related to homemaking -- fill in the blank, who is the patron saint of bakers, cooks, mothers, wives, kitchen help, etc. You can find lots of ideas here.
Meal planning discussions -- from the basic of planning protein, carb, vegetable, to incorporating colors so that it is also visually pleasing. (Never an all white meal). Rotation of meals, also discussion of frugality and efficiency, but still delicious.
Diaper changing, cloth or paper. Make it into a relay race, too. (Girls will be learning to babysit at this age).
Bread making days, discuss the variety of bread recipes from different cultures to celebrate feast days, Christmas and Easter. All ties back into the Eucharist -- seeing the connection of why Christ chose bread as the matter.
How about beginning to make a homekeepers notebook, like some of the discussions on this board. Learning to organize and keep track of a household.
Liturgical Year discussions. Have a blank calendar to color (in Moira Farrell's albums, but might be able to find another one). After coloring the liturgical colors, then talk about the corresponding seasons. Planning menus around the changing seasons, both liturgical and seasonal. Cold weather cooking vs. hot weather. How to decorate with liturgical colors. Can you incorporate colors into the meals? Candlemaking--what kinds of candles to make to use for the liturgical year (Advent candles, baptismal candles).
And singing can always fill the gaps--rounds, harmony, both secular and religious pass the time away while you're scrubbing floors and pots.
If you have Martha Stewart or some other older and newer homekeeping books, that would give loads of ideas. Also cookbooks, with basic info about different kinds of heat (gas, electric, types of ovens), types of pots and pans, measuring (dry and wet), preparing ingredients for different types of cooking, what is blanching, boiling, simmering, how to choose a fresh melon, avocado, other fruits and veggies...those are always great to discuss, maybe work into a quiz or something.
The sacraments, and some etiquette. What to do when someone is sick, and the priest comes to bring the Sacrament of the Sick. Some other things a homemaker could make or do to prepare for the sacraments, baptism (gown, candle, white garment), wedding (altar cloth)...that's all that comes to mind right now.
I'll stop now. Sounds like lots of fun, Molly.
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Ok if this is off the top of your head I am in big trouble You are wonderful, love the ideas !!!!
I really like the ideas suggested, please keep them coming!
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Don't forget reading aloud...maybe a Hilda Van Stockum book (my children LOVE her books) or The Young Life of Pope John Paul II (another favorite) or Little Women or ??? They could work on knitting, crocheting, etc. while you or someone else reads aloud. (We start our school days this way!)
Definitely outdoor time. Gardening, relay races, bird watching. How to tell a weed from a "good" plant. Telling time with a sundial. (This will help them learn to tell time by sunlight and shadows...always a handy skill!) I like the scavenger hunt idea, too...you could clue the neighbors in...
What about the fine art of hanging out laundry (resurrected at my house after everyone's electric bills went up 50% on June 1!)? (My neighbors think I've lost my mind, but between that and my 80-degree thermostat, I'm holding my own with the electric bills.)
Sewing on buttons, hemming, and other basic mending tasks are also very handy things to know. They don't take much time to teach.
What about using rubber stamps (if you have or could borrow them) to make personalized recipe cards, greeting cards and spiritual bouquet cards?
I want to come to your camp!!!
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I have had many local women same the same, so in the fall I will be doing the same thing for moms once a week.
Love the idea about weeding, actually I think I will take them on a Nature hike and show them herbs. I am doing an herb class for adults but this fits nicely with others suggesting outdoor time. It would be a bonus to have my beds weeded 
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Along with outdoor time, what about having them start a nature journal and draw each day so that at the end of the camp they've got a great start on remembering God's creation!
Also, breaks would be a great time to read aloud a book like Privilege of Being a Woman -- you could take time to really discuss each chapter, helping the girls understand the joy of what they'll be heading in to. It's such a good, short, pithy book that might be well received by girls who will be learning the "womanly arts".... Of course, if your camp is more 9 yog rather than 13 yog, you might want to use a book like the mid-Betsy Tacy books or Anne of Green Gables ... and discussing why things don't work when the characters are self-centered, overly proud, or generally self-focused.
THIS is SUCH a great idea -- please let us know what you do and how it goes over!
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I agree that you probably want to have a few games up your sleeves for in between times like you described. Speaking as a former youth minister, I found group games to be a great way to build friendships among young people. If they already know one another, games are still a great way to add fun to the day. My older two girls are involved with Challenge and games are incorporated into the meetings fairly regularly, along with all the spiritual and service activities.
This camp sounds terrific . . . and I really wish my girls could come! 
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My older two girls are involved with Challenge and games are incorporated into the meetings fairly regularly, along with all the spiritual and service activities.
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My daughter is in Challenge, too. I wish I could remember some of the games they play. They also LOVE to make up skits about what they read in the Gospel, or about a specific virtue. Maybe the girls would have fun acting out incorrect ettiquette, then acting out what they should have done in the situation. I hope you all have a wonderful time together!
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Oh I wish you were my neighbor Annie
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Well I made it through the first day!!! It was actually fun We focused on knitting today, we had a tea with fruit and scones then a herb study. I was so impressed with the girls interest and fasination with the different actions of each herb. We started Nature journals, the girls sat quietly and drew for nearly an hour. We read from the book of Sirach on herbs, so much fun.
Tomorrow is canning jam!! I am hoping to pull off Jenn's idea about the patron saints, and do some more reading aloud. They have asked if we could do another nature hike so we will defiantly so that.
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OK, first pray for me, it is very hot and humid and our humble cottage does not have air!!!! I have no desire to make bread today or can????? Quick other ideas that are homemaking that do not require 350 ovens!!!
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Freezer jam, Molly?
How to use and survive the heat: sun tea (different flavors), dressing for warm weather (how did women from other eras keep cool - parasols, hats, why houses had kitchens in the basement, sketch shade plants exclusively, solar cooking (english muffin pizzas), etc.
Really, **really** off the top of my head.... 
And I'm with you in survival mode today - supposed to be 100 degrees today! 
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+JMJ+
How about first aid of what to do when someone has heat stroke!
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Betsy wrote:
How about first aid of what to do when someone has heat stroke!
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OK that is funny!!!!!
I a trying to convince ny dh to take my wood burning oven outside!!! I need a summer kitchen, he looked at me like I am nuts. Cast iron oven are VERY heavy, the look he gave me let me know that is not happening
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I like the idea of hanging out the laundry properly that Nancy suggested, cool, wet clothing and sheets always feel so good in the heat of the day!
The girls could even string their own lines if you have enough rope hanging about the farm, what about making laundry line props? You know, those big sticks that help keep the clothing off the ground when the line sags in the middle. Girls like to make things out of wood too! Nice BBC article on Washing lines and pegs here.
What about a little sewing under a tree today while the sheets dry? Herbal sachets with a simple outline of the herb that will be stuffed inside and also sketched in the nature notebooks and then used in the sun tea? Each girl could make her own sun tea in Mason jars if you have plenty of jars around. Eat cream cheese mixed with the herbs on crackers, sliced apples would go well.
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