I did camps with kids for about 5 years. I did a lot of "be a rider, not a complainer" and got them to do a lot of handling for me with young horses. We had a ton of fun but it was a lot of work. I turned them loose in the woods with walkie talkies and they had to follow trails as part of a murder mystery. When they came upon the body, they had to do some CSI work. I remember one murder the clue was "Timothy" which was the hay the pillow-corpse was clutching in his gloved sock tube sock hand. None of them could figure it out even though we had gone over what plants made up hay.
The thing that surprised me the most was the inefficiency in the barn chores. They would park a wheelbarrow at the end of the barn, get a pitchfork full of manure and walk all the way down the isleway with it. I tried to work on their brains a lot in thinking out how they did things. It was scarey.
One funny thing was I allowed one kid to get dropped off at 7:15 am because of the mother's work schedule. The next day- the remaining 6 campers showed up at 7:15. These wound up being very long days.
The thing that surprised me the most was the inefficiency in the barn chores. They would park a wheelbarrow at the end of the barn, get a pitchfork full of manure and walk all the way down the isleway with it. I tried to work on their brains a lot in thinking out how they did things. It was scarey.
One funny thing was I allowed one kid to get dropped off at 7:15 am because of the mother's work schedule. The next day- the remaining 6 campers showed up at 7:15. These wound up being very long days.