Winter 2021 campout at Camp Edwards

This year's winter campout was at YMCA Camp Edwards in Troy, Wisconsin.  Due to pandemic concerns, this was a day-camp only and not an overnight event.  The campout was held on Saturday, January 23rd.  We were fortunate enough to have snow on the ground for some fun winter activities!

The girls got to learn about winter survival and fire building at one of the camp stations.  Here are some of the Illini princesses working together to build different types of fires:

Another fun group activity the girls got to engage in was "bridge" building.  The girls and dads had to work together to build a dynamic bridge to make a marble travel from one spot to another without falling off.  This required coordination and team effort to get the marble to travel the entire span.  After the marble passed a person's section, that person had to run to the other side of the span to continue the bridge!

Here are some Snow Owls learning to shoot paintballs at targets with slingshots.  I think the girls learned that it's not that easy!