Day 11

When we got there at 9 this morning, there were so many cars in the parking lot. At first, I was thinking what in the world is going on, but then I remembered from the Staff meeting the day before that there was a radio thing going on. A radio show was there from 5-9 and it brought in the people. It was crazt to see so many people walking around the zoo already, when it doesn't normally open until 10.

Worked on supply lists, especially what we need for our first week of camp. A few went with Daniela shopping today for some of the supplies. McKenzie's birthday was on Sunday, and she brought some of her birthday cake today, which was really good, and funfetti at that - one of my favorites.

The first craft project that I worked on today was a snake shaker."S" for snake... get it? haha There's rice inside the tube, so I think after we make them one day, we might use them to make music and dance a bit.

This was a pretty simple dinosaur made from paper plates and fun to color. I named it the Jessicasaurus for fun. The legs are even movable.

This is a dinosaur scene made out of crumpled brown paper bag, which kind of adds some texture and dimension to the piece.

One other major craft project we plan on incorporating is some sort of bags. We can't afford to have canvas bags for the campers to paint every week, so I came up with an idea to make our own bag with handles from a brown paper grocery bag. I stopped at Hy-Vee on my way home to pick some up. I've got enough for the first week, and I will probably test run one tomorrow.