Creative Crafts: For Camps, Schools, and Groups

Hammett, Catherine T.

Horrocks, Carol M.

Amer Camp Assn

Omnibus of Fun: A Treasury of Fun for Recreation Leaders (001)

Eisenberg, Helen

Eisenberg, Larry

It's My Job: Job Descriptions for Over 30 Camp Jobs

It's My Job: Job Descriptions for over 30 Camp Jobs

Klein, Edie

Business & Money

Included in this useful guide is advice on how to talk to a camper, understand a camper's confused actions, and plan for staff training. Survival tips on anorexia, tattling, staff morale, self-control, staff motivation, scary stories, camper crushes, and clinging behaviors are indexed by subject and cross-referenced by question.

In the Trenches: Answers from the Expert to the Toughest Questions You Face

Ditter, Bob

Recognized by Campfire Boys and Girls, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and the U.S. Forest Service, the Outdoor Living Skills (OLS) program is the most effective program for training adults to teach children how to respect and protect outdoor areas. This manual provides the curriculum for teaching the OLS program leader course and for implementing the American Camping Association's OLS program. Camp, agency, university, and other organizational leaders use this curriculum to train their staff, volunteers, and students to teach outdoor skills to children.

Outdoor Living Skills Instructors Manual

American Camping Association

Health, Fitness & Dieting

An essential handbook for camp counselors, this book covers the critical issues counselors need to know when dealing with groups of campers. Topics include responsibilities as a role model, tips to survive the stress of supervising campers for the first time, characteristics and program considerations for specific age groups, and suggestions for reinforcing positive behavior as well as handling inappropriate behavior among campers. This book also serves as a discussion starter for counselor training, with information on camper behavior, age characteristics, and group development stages.

Camp Is for the Camper: A Counselor's Guide to Youth Development

Coutellier, Connie

Henchey, Kathleen

Industries

There are few finer ways to entertain and teach than with a skillfully told story set in an atmosphere of friendship and communion around the glow of a crackling campfire. This collection of stories, handpicked by camp directors, will delight modern campers and storytellers everywhere. Supporting the rich oral tradition behind campfire stories, these well-loved tales include humorous, ghost, and adventure stories; stories from other lands; stories with a moral; and Native American tales. Included are guidelines and how-to's for telling a gripping story.

Stories for the Campfire

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Book by Decker, Michelle, Carvajal Decker, Michelle

Rainy Day Games

Decker, Michelle

Carvajal Decker, Michelle

Sports & Outdoors

Each summer brings thousands of camps and their directors the challenge of maintaining health care and managing safety. Although the professionals who offer their services as nurses often bring years of experience with them, the closed community of a camp is fraught with its own set of unique difficulties. From establishing the health center and orienting staff to diagnosing injury and illness and managing communicable disease, this quick and practical reference enables any health-care professional to arrive at camp and hit the ground running.

The Basics of Camp Nursing

Pravda, Myra

Erceg, Linda Ebner

This comprehensive reference enables teachers, camp counselors, and youth leaders to model and teach safe, environmentally responsible outdoor living skills to children. Children test themselves, pass required skills tests, and earn colorful patches on the road to completing the five levels of the living skills program. This guide helps instructors teach the knowledge and skills needed to camp overnight in a state park, lead their family on a hike through a local forest, and tread safely and kindly on the wilderness road.

Outdoor Living Skills Program Manual: An Environmentally Friendly Guide

Scheder, Catherine M.

Hiking & Camping

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