In part two, Chris and his crafty wife, Carrie, teach even more super awesome contemporary crafts! This two-part episode is also available on the Scamp Life YouTube channel to watch and see exactly how each craft is made. If your craft room needs an update, or you just want some cool ideas for new and exciting crafts that the campers WANT to do, check out this episode.
In this episode, Chris and his crafty wife, Carrie, teach some super awesome contemporary crafts! This two-part episode is also available on the SCamp Life YouTube channel to watch and see exactly how each craft is made. If your craft room needs an update, or you just want some cool ideas for new and exciting crafts that the campers WANT to do, check out this episode.
Curt and Chris discuss lots of great ideas for hosting your own virtual camp. In this current craziness of covid19 and quarantine, creating a virtual camp will help keep you connected to your campers and give them some fun campy things to do! This is a great episode to listen to now and then get with your team and start planning your very own E-Camp!
In this timely episode, the guys have a chat with Jack all about Hometown Stomping Ground, a virtual camp. Jack and his team have been creating tons of great stuff for their campers to do during this quarantine. This is a very new experience for all of us, and this week’s episode gives some great insight on getting started with your own virtual camp.
Have you heard the buzz? The guys invite Kevin Johnson on this week to discuss beekeeping at your camp. If this is something you’re considering, or mayBEE you weren’t until now, this is a great week to listen! Kevin shares a lot of the pros and cons (Stingers and Honey!) of this program activity. So, BEE proactive and listen as the guys WAX eloquently about our winged friends.
Need to update some of your current stuff to make it cooler or just different. This week’s episode has the guys talking all about Twerking…I mean Tweaking Current Activities! (And if you know anything about Chris, you know he’s going to go over the top with some of these!)
Curt and Chris celebrate their 1 year anniversary with their guest, Drew Demery, who is on the show to talk about all the coolness that is Hatchet Throwing! Drew is even available to come to your camp and help you set it up!! Listen to this episode for some great advice on adding this new popular activity to your camp!
Curt and Chris discuss a fairly new concept this week. Mystery Trails are like Escape Rooms on a Hike/Walk! The guys talk about what’s all involved in these and some great ideas to figure out your own. They also share a little preview of the Escape Room Summit where there’s an entire session about Mystery Trails!
Did you get a check in the mail for some cool new camp programming? Well, the guys have some great suggestions on how you can spend it! They have lots of new ideas and even some things that they’ve never done but would like to try themselves! If you’ve got some extra funds lying around and need some great ideas about what to do with it, check out this episode for help!
Join the Camp Programming Pros this week as they travel around the world for an immersively cool theme! From decorations to crafts, to music, to games, you’ll get great ideas to take your campers on a trip they will never forget! The guys also talk about some great tips and ideas and even some cautions while doing this theme.
Looking for a new theme to be “Part of Your World”? Maybe you have another theme that’s a “Tale as Old as Time” and you just need to “Let It Go”. We’ll “You Gotta Friend” in Curt and Chris as they talk this week all about a Disney Theme! “You’re Welcome!” The guys have some fun and kinda crazy ideas that will make this theme a “Whole New World” for your Camp. Go “Into the Unknown” and give it a listen!
Curt and Chris talk all about Destination Hikes this week. What are they? What are you supposed to do? Should you have one at your Camp? Who let the Dogs Out? The guys answer MOST of these questions and more! Listen to this episode to hear about an interesting and easy to do programming activity for your camp!
When you started at your camp, don’t you wish you would have had a book with everything you needed to know? Yeah, pretty much everyone does! Curt and Chris talk about making program binders for yourself, your staff, and your future replacement! They come up with a bunch of ideas for different binders and what you might want to include. Get started on them now before the chaos of summer gets here!
2020 is the year of the Summer Olympics. Chris and Curt spend this week discussing some great ideas on how to use this year to bring an Olympic Theme to your camp! From competitions to decorations, to even food, the guys give some epic ideas for this summer’s theme!
This week we talk about the journey a first-time camper goes through at camp. How can you and your staff help new campers be the hero? This is an excellent episode to send to your counselors pre-camp and have them listen to and prep for a discussion during Training Week!
The Camp Programming Guys are back again this year with the first podcast of 2020! This episode has some great ideas for a Star Wars theme for your camp! Whether you’re looking for new ideas, looking to spice up some old ones, or just want to ride the coattails of Baby Yoda, there’s sure to be something for your Camp!
Right before the new year starts, listen as Curt and Chris share some epic evening activities. Ring in the new summer evenings with some World Record or Minute 2 Win it games. Hold an evening Video Game night. Host a carnival or Trivia night. As you celebrate the new year, plan some new evening ideas for your upcoming summer!
The guys give you a great Christmas present this year of on fleek ideas for Teen Camp! Here are some great things to start working on now to be ready for this coming summer! Yeet ideas like a Coffeehouse or Thrift Store Scavenger Hunt. YOLO ideas like Mystery Trips or Freetime with Bae. Swag ideas like Sleeping in or Coffee bar. These dope ideas are sure to make you GOAT this summer and slay your teen campers.
Chris shares the top 8 best things he did last summer at Camp Good News, and Curt shares some great things he learned from other camps last summer!
Curt and Chris interview Tara Laidlaw this week about adding STEM into camping. Tara has immense knowledge of STEM learning and a crazy amount of great advice for camps looking to do this. This week’s episode is a great listen for not only the “What-to-dos” or the “How-to-dos”, but also the “Why-you-shoulds”!
Looking for new theme ideas for 2020? Take a listen to this episode for some great themes that the guys share from upcoming movies. These are the movies that all the campers will be talking about already, so why not bring the movies to life and create some awesome days around them! Super cool ideas like a Trolls theme that is music and crazy hair, a Dr Doolittle theme where the staff dress up as talking animals, or a Jumanji theme all around puzzles and adventures. Get some cinematastic ideas fo...
Chris and Curt have a great chat with Andy McClung from ChristianCampPro.com about his retreat center. Andy shares some great tips and tricks about how he's able to fill every weekend of his retreat center. This episode is a great listen for those camps wanting to expand into the retreat season or those camps that already do, but need to improve on it!
The guys discuss STEM learning this week and how you can implement that into your Camp! They share some great ideas like catapults, egg drop, bridge building, zoology, roller coasters, solar ovens, and so much more. STEM would make an awesome addition to your camp program or even a great way to get schools and groups to come out for a retreat!
Chris and Curt talk with Jenn and Amanda all about Scavaganza! Scavaganza is where you combine Scavenger Hunt Awesomeness with Extravaganza Fun! This is a great activity you can do with your campers, or staff, or even a bunch a camp professionals like Jenn and Amanda did at the ACA Tri-State Conference. Listen in for some great tips and tricks they have learned to run your own Scavaganza!
Curt and Chris discuss some great ideas of things we would love to see happen in the camping industry. So if there is anyone out there that has some skills to do some of this stuff, you’ll have at least 2 customers! From more podcasting, to online courses, to meet-ups, to apps...there are some awesome ideas for some possible camp entrepreneurs.
Curt, minus a sick Chris, talks with Snacks this week about some of the incredible amount of programming that Pali Adventure Camp offers. They have literally a little bit of everything! Magic, Stunts, High Adventure, Circus, Comedy, Street Art, Aviation, and so much more! Learn how they came up with some of these crazy cool programs and why these specialties are so popular with the campers!
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...two guys behind a mic?! Er...I mean...Here they are to save the Day!!!! Well not really, but our dynamic duo do have some Super ideas for a superhero theme! From decorations to crafts to games to even the inclusion of villains. If your camp does themes, then this is one for the comic books!
The guys chat with Cricket Snearing about how to best plan for inclement weather. Cricket has been in camping for a long time and has some great info on how to best plan! Bet you didn’t know that buying some big 'ol Ziploc bags is a great start, or that a mirror schedule is a great way to keep all staff on the same page! Learn from this great Camp Pro exactly how you can be prepped for when the bad weather does show up!
Chris and Curt discuss random small programming at camp. This is stuff that doesn’t require daily set up or staff supervision. Great ideas for some fun anytime activities that can help fill up time or keep campers busy while waiting for something else. Listen now to prep for next summer!
The Camp Programming Dudes discuss an often overlooked opportunity for camps, the Halloween event! They give some great ideas that can be a lot of fun and add some revenue to your camp as well as new campers! Give this week’s episode a listen if you don’t currently do anything for Halloween on your property and could use a fun new event!
