Skit Night
After another full day of activities, we ended Wednesday with the famous, famous, MOST FAMOUS, Skit Night! We rolled out the carpet in the dining hall as 9 cabins performed cabin skits. I’ve communicated in the past about how one of the biggest benefits of summer camp and Huawni for your child is that they really learn what it means to collaborate, and Skit Night is a fresh opportunity to do that. Where else does your child get to be creative and create a production, making their own decisions, with cabin mates that they may or may not have known very long, some of whom are very different from themselves? Last night was a growing opportunity, and a whole lot of fun for the kids.
Thursday & Tribal Competition Team Announcements
Today we surprised the campers with Connect, which is a day where they scrap their regular schedule and choose to do whatever activities they wish. We’ll do that again for afternoon activities, and then tonight we have Talent Show. Following Talent Show will be our Tribal Competition Fire Ceremony, where our first-time two-week session campers will be inducted onto their tribal team, which will either be the Red Caddo or Blue Tejas. I’ll try and post teams as soon as possible. Until then, it’s another sunshiny day here at Camp Huawni!
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Guides for choosing a summer camp
- Signs Your Child Needs a Phone Break Eight specific, observable signs that a child's relationship with their phone has tipped — and what to do about it that does not start a war. Written by a camp that has run phone-free sessions since 1965.
- What Kids Actually Learn at an Unplugged Summer Camp Not archery. Six things children pick up during a phone-free camp session — boredom tolerance, conflict repair, real independence — and why removing the phone from the whole peer group is what makes it work.
- Camp Champions vs Camp Huawni: Two Tech-Free Camps Compared Both camps are coed, overnight and tech-free. The differences are setting, size, and whether you want an explicit skills framework or a traditional throwback camp.