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On the friday afternoon of our summer camp we hold a Camp Fair. This is always a big hit with the students and a great way to end the week. Here's the detailed teacher guide to plan this activity, and some colourful signs to print for each fair 'station'.

We get our older students working throughout the week on creative construction: using cardboard and recycled materials and a lot of colourful paint to build fun camp games. We challenge them to run the stands (in English) and be responsible for collecting payment (fake camp currency) and awarding prizes and team points.

Make sure to play some fun music throughout the fair and take plenty of photos and videos to include it in your end of camp slideshow. We circulate as the students move station to station and encourage them to use English at all times. It becomes a great roleplaying scenario for real shopping as well as a lot of fun.

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.

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.

One student thinks of a person, place, animal or object. The students then rotate around the table each getting one 'yes' or 'no' question to try to guess what it is. If the students ask 20 questions in total, and still don't know the answer, the student wins.