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Fairy Tale: Pop Song
Each day for half an hour before lunch, our summer camp groups get together to learn to sing and dance to a song that ties into our camp theme. For the fairy tale themed camp, this song matches perfectly and is so catchy and fun. After getting comfortable with the words, we teach choreography that highlights the meaning of key phrases and practice staging so we can impress family and friends with a performance at the end of camp show.
Here are the lyrics and 3 fun worksheets to help the students learn the words and dance moves.
Fairy Tale: Colouring
Perfect for junior groups, rainy day activities and free time options for students wanting a calm activity - these 8 colouring sheets are on theme for our Fairy Tale Summer Camp. What a lovely way to connect with students, repeating colour vocabulary and simply chatting as they colour in. Use the finished work as colourful decorations or add them to your student portfolio. They can also be used as inspiration for final show story ideas and character choices.
Fairy Tale: Invitations
We love to end our summer camp with a big show. Each student group shows off some of what they've learned with an entertaining, dramatic play or film. We also prepare a slideshow of photos and videos of the camp activities and the students receive their certificate and completed workbook. The students perform the pop song and any other cultural dances they have learned. It's a wonderful celebration of all the great times they've had at summer camp.
As a fun arts and crafts activity a few days before the camp show, we have the students decorate these fairy tale themed invitations. We print them on card and make sure we've done at least one colourful example for inspiration. While they work, it is a great time to sing camp songs and enjoy a food treat.
Fairy Tale: Backgrounds
We use these giant posters (can be printed as size A0) as group flags for our big challenge groups at summer camp. We award points for which team decorates their poster the best.
A fun way to do this is to set the poster and paints (or big markers) at one end of a playing field or hall and have the teams lined up at the other end, relay style. Blow a whistle for the first student from each team to race up and start painting their poster however they like. After a minute blow the whistle again and the next student has a turn, and so on. It makes this activity very exciting and ensures no one gets left out.
After the posters are dry, display them proudly in the group challenge area to mark meeting spots for each group. Bring them to the front for your final show and when you announce challenge winners.
Fairy Tale: Magical_Quest
We schedule an excursion to a nearby park once or twice a week to give our summer camp students an exciting adventure. Here's a fun activity to do at the park, that fits our Fairy Tale theme. It's a "Magical Quest" scavenger hunt where each 'station' requires the students to complete a task in order to collect the magic beans.
Our lovely camp helpers and teachers attach the printed cards to different trees and benches around the park. Teachers carry small bags of dried beans to be ready to award each group as they complete the tasks.
Don't forget to snap some photos as they do these tasks to add to your photo slideshow for the camp show! At the end, the beans collected by each group can be converted into team points and added to their running total.
Fairy Tale: Riddles
Here's 8 great riddle sets (with instructions) we use in our summer camp warm-up activities for our students aged between 10 - 13. On the first day of summer camp we organise the students into competition groups with mixed levels, so the more advanced students can help the less advances students and the teams are evenly matched.
We start each morning with some movement games and these riddle cards that they race to solve first. Print them on card and cut them into 4 mini cards per page. The 'sculptorades' is something they have to 'sculpt' out of playdoh or a similar material.
Don't forget to keep a running score of team points throughout the summer camp to keep them motivated to try their best at each activity.
Fairy Tale: Crowns
We choose one camp day to be a dress-up day. For the Fairy Tale themed camp we encourage students to come dressed up as their favourite Fairy Tale hero or villain. We make sure to make some simple props such as star wands to hand out to anyone who forgets or wasn't able to come dressed up. We also have plenty of these crowns so students can decorate their own crowns to wear.
We print them on card and make sure we've done at least one colourful example for inspiration. While they work, it is a great time to sing camp songs and enjoy a food treat. They can also be useful props for the end of camp show.
