Building Flying Things … with a purpose
Arts and Crafts, Experiential Learning

Barry Jolliff
Cost: $18 Limit 16

These flying things can be props to be used in Team Building activities, as props for games, and as mind boggling Puzzles. Some of the items we will make are: Paint Stick Boomerangs, Cardboard boomerangs, Noodle Rockets, French Hoops, Wooden Twirly Gigs, Funderbirds. We will also make several items from nylon stockings: Comets, Fluffy Balls, Soft flying disk, and an 8” ball for kicking or volleyball or soccer, etc. We will also spend time learning “How To” do the activities related to your new …Flying Things.

String Quilting
Arts and Crafts

Edie Dyke-Conley
Cost: $0 Limit: 12

In this class we will explore the possibilities of "string quilts".......the best use of the smallest scraps! We will construct a table runner top and maybe quilt it ready for use. 

Photography
Arts and Crafts

Katie Trout and AJ Bennett
Cost: $0 Limit: 10

Come with us to learn to use your camera of choice! We'll be going over framing, lighting, composition, and proper techniques to get the most out of your photos. All skill levels are welcome with any camera you may have- digital, film, or even just your phone will work great!

Campfire Songs and Skits
Music, Song, and Dance

Larry Hall and Bill Henderson
Cost: $0 Limit: 15

Music is a powerful and creative method to make a program enjoyable. Participants in this session will learn and enhance existing song leading skills for various occasions including campfire songs, graces for meals, large and small group singing sessions as well as play party dances and skits. Join Bill Henderson and Larry Hall in the song circle!

Dancing in Circles, Lines, and Squares
Music, Song, and Dance

Christy Leeds and Tim Borton
Cost: $0 Limit: 24

We welcome beginners and those who want to brush up their skills or just enjoy dancing to join us. We’ll dance a wide variety of dance forms from Contras to Cotton Eyed Joe.  We’ll discuss how to incorporate dance in your program efforts.

Nest Boxes
Nature and Outdoor Education

Dave Kalkbrenner and Tim Reynolds
Cost: $30 Limit: 12

Class participants will learn about cavity-nesting birds including habitat, nest box construction, invasive species competition, and installing a bluebird box trail in their home community.  Participants will make 3 bluebird boxes complete with predator shields.  This information is easily transferrable to schools, camps, and parks and recreation departments interested in having a teaching tool for outdoor education.  The class information can easily expand to include basic science, math and language arts concepts for school groups.

Camp Counselor Bootcamp
Personal and Professional Development

Joe Richards
Cost: $0 Limit: 20

This session will be a crash course in camp counselor training, with both general concepts and specific activities of working with youth audiences. The target audience is camp professionals (to gain ideas for training their own staff), prospective camp counselors (youth progressing from camp attendees to camp staff), and other parks and recreation program staff.

Leadership Chaos
Personal and Professional Development

Katrina Nitz
Cost: $0 Limit: 20

We will look into the main types of leadership styles. How we can work collectively, with leaders who approach leadership differently than you, to achieve a common goal. Come join us as we learn how to recognize different leadership styles and fun and effective ways to be a part of a successful team of leaders.

GamesMaster Training
Experiential Learning & Group Dynamics

Tim Borton
Cost: $0 Limit: 24

Do you want to become a Games Master? Someone who knows games for all occasions? Then this is the class for you. We will focus on how to plan and lead games for groups of all sizes. Games will range from slow to fast paced, from large group to small group, and for all ages. Class will be very interactive and participants will play the games as we learn. We will also discuss games leadership best practices and talk about how to incorporate games into participants' programs.

Ascendium: Foundations - a Wide Game Experience
Experiential Learning & Group Dynamics

Ted Zech and Greg Peterson
Cost: $10 Limit: 20

In this session you will learn how to play a single game over the span of the workshop. This game will incorporate creative world building, team dynamics, problem solving, strategy, and communication. Our goal is to have full immersion into the world, and to have you spending all your free time wanting to strategize with your teammates. At the end of the week you'll leave with all of the materials to replicate the experience in whatever setting suits your needs, and with a full group discussion of tweaking the setting for your needs as well. Where else can you play a game with 20 of the sharpest minds in the industry?

Totally Tie Dye and Color Craft
Arts and Crafts

Amanda Raines and Haylee Pelland
Cost: $25 Limit: 12

Amp up your tie-dye game in this Totally Tie-Dye class. Learn different tie-dye techniques, such as traditional, reverse, ice dye, sharpie dye, and cream dye. Each day of the class will feature a method of tie-dying and another small color craft. Participants will leave with finished tie-dye products and an instruction book for each method and craft. This class is perfect for camp craft instructors and tie-dye enthusiasts.

Creating Beautiful “Little Things” from Wood
Arts and Crafts

Bill Henderson and Michael Gentry
Cost: $0 Limit: 15

This class will feature making “Beautiful Little Things” - earrings, pins, broaches, fobs, hair barrettes, etc., from a wide variety of colorful and figured woods. Participants will learn techniques for creating with simple hand tools that they most likely have never used before, and creating fashion accessories and beautiful jewelry from scratch.

Basic Basketry
Arts and Crafts

Dave Kalkbrenner and Kyia Wolf
Cost: $20 Limit: 12

Participants in this class will use flat and round reed to create two different baskets.  Learn basic weaving techniques and gain an understanding of the tools, materials, and techniques used in basket making.

Stained Glass Boxes
Arts and Crafts

Katie Trout, Ashley Okel, Pam Trout, and Ed Bennett
Cost: $40 Limit: 12

The primary project this year would be a stained glass box. We can have several patterns to choose from, but they will basically have the same construction, consisting of straight cuts. This will (hopefully!) enable participants to complete their box in a more time efficient manner, since they will be learning technique with less frustration over breaking odd, hard to cut pattern pieces. If there's time, participants could make a suncatcher selected from several simple patterns.

Crocheting
Arts and Crafts

Amber Grundy
Cost: $10 Limit 12

Designed for beginner crocheters! Learn the basic slip stitch, single, double, half-double, and triple (‘treble’) crochet stitches, and more advanced stitches like the front post and back post crochet, crocheting in the “third stitch,” and a faux-knit stitch. You will learn how to read and follow a simple pattern, understand increasing and decreasing stitches, magic circles, changing colors, and hopefully complete a small project to take home with you! Loom-knitting (aka ‘nifty knitter’) projects will be available as an option as well.

Ukulele Time
Music, Song, and Dance

Larry Hall and Tim Reynolds
Cost: $0 Limit: 15

Have you wanted to learn to play a ukulele or already have a uke gathering dust? Join Larry and Tim as we introduce learners to this fun instrument. We will jam out in class and in after-hours sessions. This is a class for both beginners and those who have played before who would like to learn more and improve their ukulele skills. We will have ukuleles to borrow if you need one.

Outdoor Projects
Nature and Outdoor Education

Heather Quinones
Cost: $5 Limit: 20

Pulling from several Project books (WILD; WET; Learning Tree; Food, land and People) you will be lead through activities that are awesome for outdoor learning, but are sometimes over looked. We will be utilizing indoor and outdoor areas, please dress for the weather and be prepared for one day at the lake/stream front. We will create the notebook you will use throughout the time to record data, reflections, and more throughout the class.