LB Interest Group
Next week I will be leading a letterboxing interest group at camp. The group will run in girl’s camp for a 4-day session, 1 hour each day. I’m planning to go over the basics — what it is, how it works, tools of the game, etc., come up with fun trail names, design and make personal stamps and a small logbook and then on the final day, go out and find a letterbox that I have pre-planted. The clues will use some of the more common letterbox clue strategies, including compass bearings. I’m trying to come up with clues that draw on camp history and tradition and will require the girls to do a little research the night before — since they don’t have access to computers, it would have to be things they could find out by asking staff members and/or alumni. It would be fun to each create a box for the other members of the group to find, but that would take more time than we have — maybe that’s letterboxing 203. I am considering putting out a couple of additional boxes that they could look for outside of the group, maybe during their free time.
Of course being on camp property, these letterboxes are not available to the general public. But hopefully it will spark some interest and send a few kids home to get their families involved with letterboxing. Should be fun!
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I am kinda assuming you are maybe at GS camp. I know most of the camps have LB in them for GS ONLY. We have a lady with our council we email the clues to and she fowards them out to us once she varifies that we are who we say we are.
Just food for thought.
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It is a summer youth camp. We don’t allow outside visitors on property when program is in session. I am afraid that if clues were to get out and perhaps be passed from one person to another, even with the stipulation of certain times/dates and having to check in at the office, etc. that we would lose control of who was coming and going.
Sounds like good fun! During the next two weeks, I will be giving stamp carving lessons at the summer day camp at Crooked River Ranch. No letterboxing for these kids but it’s always been WAY fun to see those faces light up when those kids press ink to paper.
What a great idea! That inspires me to want to try something similar with the kids at my daughter’s parent-participation school if I have the opportunity.