Summer Urban Camp: Pirates of the Black Sea, first week I

On the first week of our camp we traveled through the Fire island, we sailed on the Black sea and we arrived to the Turtle island:

*Day 1: The Fire island
*Day 2: The Pirate city
*Day 3: The Pirate bar
*Day 4: The Sea
*Day 5: The Turtle island

Every activity was developed according to the place that we were each day:

*Day 1: The Fire island:
We just arrived to the pirate islands so the first thing to do was introducing ourself and know a little bit more about all our crew. For this we played a few introduction games and we chose our pirates names!

The second thing we should do was transform us in pirates! So we created our own hats, eye-patches and hooks, all handmade!!!

The kids had their costumes but the captains were not convinced about the new crew. So we developed a few tests to prove how much pirate our kids were! We checked their aim skills for the cannons, and also their courage jumping in a chalk river. We checked their power to raise the anchor and also their speed and flexibility:

 

*Day 2: The Pirate city

 On the pirate city we created a flag to decorate our classroom and a mobile-fish.

But we needed one thing more, we needed to save all the treasures we found! So we made a treasure bag!

But the main activity this day was to meet famous pirates!
We presented to the kids 6 famous (real and fiction) pirates and we asked
some things about them:

- Capitan Hook
- Long John Silver
- Blackbeard
- Anne Bonnie
- Mary Read
- Calico Jack

To know the answers the kids should find balloons all over the playground, exploded them and found the pieces of a puzzle with the answers.

 *Day 3: The Pirate bar
We started the day, like everyday, playing outside:

We had already a hat, an eye-patch and a hook, but all pirates have also a bandana! So we created a color one!

With our new costume we went to the Pirate's bar, and there was a big surprise! A pirate wedding! In fact, 3 pirate weddings!
All the guests helped to dress up the wifes and husbands for the wedding, and we celebrated the ceremony!

 After the ceremony we played a funny game to achieve a package of cookies!

 To finish the day we learned a pirate song with a pirate dance!!!

Al :)