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Motivational/Inspirational

Rules Review

Connecting/Team Building

Motivational/Inspirational

Rules Review

Connecting/Team Building

Does One Week Make a Difference?


Motivational

Building a Support System for Our Campers

Supplies and People Power:

• Big ball of Yarn

• Balloons–represents 2 campers (non helium)• 5 to 15 people to toss the yarn around

Directions:

(Please record what you observe)

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Motivational

The right speaker can be very motivational and inspiring. Things to look for in a speaker:

Qualifications:

• Heart for Abused Kids

• Has a story to tell that’s emotional and gratifying and has the ability to tell it with heart.

• Use interviewing if the person is not comfortable giving a short talk.



Motivational

Ideas for Resource People or Speakers• Your own counselors or staff:

Select two or three of your own people who have been at camp for 3 or more years. Everyone has a SOTO. Start with them or disperse them throughout the day.

• Your Pastor if he/she has been to camp or any church staff member

• Social Worker who Knows RFKC

• Group Home Director who has had kids at camp

• Private Care Person

• Foster Parents

• A Caregiver like a grandmother

• Any community leader who has interacted with RFKC

• FORMER CAMPER (Usually interviewing works best)

Additional Director Team Ideas


Question Answer Number

NameNA

Position at RFKC this year.

NA

Years following Jesus. Place answer in numbers column

How many years at camp?

Place answer in numbers column

Number of pets…fish & reptiles count.


Number of foreign countries I have visited.


Number of moving traffic violations.


A quick “Something About You,” that will help us remember you, i.e., Maria, rode pigs as a child.

NA

This goes in the staff/counselor’s training notebook. This promotes connecting. ABOUT USABOUT US



Question Answer Number

Years following Jesus.TABLE TOTAL for your table

How many years at camp? “


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A quick “Something About You,” that will help us remember you.

Have your table pick the most interesting or different “Something About You,” from the people at your table. Have that person stand and tell their “Something.”

NA

This is given to each Table Host OnlyInstruction: After each person has filled this form out. 1. Go around the table and let each person share their form. 2. Fill in the Table Totals.3. Select one person from your table to share their

“Something about Me,” story.4. Be ready to report your table’s information.

ABOUT USPage 2ABOUT USPage 2



Question Number

Years following Jesus.

How many years at camp?




A quick “Something About You,” that will help us remember you.

ABOUT US – Page 2

Training Leader, Host or Moderator: Have this chart in your Power Point Presentation. Ask the person running the PP to fill in the numbers as each table host reports.



The Tallest Tower

Instructions• The goal for this exercise is to have your team

build the Tallest Tower with the 50 index cards you have been given. Here are the rules.

1. You will be given 8 minutes to plan how to build your tower.

2. You will have 5 minutes for actual construction.

3. While you plan you MAY NOT DAMAGE THE CARDS IN ANY WAY, but you MAY SPEAK.

4. While you build you MAY NOT SPEAK to each other.

5. The team with the Tallest Tower wins.6. Take 5 minutes to have the team debrief



DebriefAppoint a spokesperson to facilitate the team to

discuss these questions and share with the whole group if called upon to do so.

• What behavior/actions helped the group accomplish the task?

• What behaviors/actions hindered the group in completing the task?

• How did leadership emerge on the team?• How is your team feeling about your

tower?• Did you remember IT’S PROCESS NOT

PRODUCT?!!!

What We Need at Camp to Create Positive Memories


Personality Type Groups Team Building ExerciseForm groups of up to twelve with the same

personality type assigned to different areas around the training facility. Over all exercise time 45 to 60 minutes.

Supplies:• Banner paper cut in 12 foot lengths. Could be rolled

and tied with construction tape. 1 banner per group.

• One set of 6 to 8 colored marking pens per group.• One set of instructions per group.• If you use Power Point, a slide with the instructions

on the screen for all the groups to review.

Instructions:• Go to your designated area with your supplies.• Appoint a spokesperson to read the instructions. • Read the Instructions. (This is kind of a Pictionary model without guessing and each

person thinks up their own “What We Need at Camp” picture to draw.)



• Our team has 13 minutes to complete this exercise once the instructions have been read and a short discussion (no longer than 2 minutes) takes place to make sure everyone knows what to do.

• DO NOT share what you plan to draw with the team. WE need to decide the order for who draws when. If our team has 12 members everyone draws one “What We Need at Camp” picture on the banner.

• If our team only has 4 members then each person would draw 3 different things. EVERY banner must contain 12 “What We Need at Camp” pictures. If there are 6 team members then everyone will draw 2 and so on.

• One team member cannot draw for other team members.



• Our team is on the HONOR SYSTEM, we need to appoint someone to time the 13 minutes.

• Each person gets one minute to draw their “What We Need at Camp.”

• When your minute is up and our team time keeper calls time, you must stop even if you are not finished. The next team member starts drawing and is timed. Change team members quickly. There is a built in time allotment of five seconds between team members.

• Each person should have in their mind three or four things they could draw in case the person in front of you draws what you were planning.

• Any questions? We now have two minutes to get a time keeper. Also select another time keeper, for when the time keeper has his turn to draw. We need to decide our drawing order and how to handle the colored markers most efficiently.

• At the end of two minutes our first drawer should begin his or her one minute picture. If our team members have to draw more than one picture because there are not 12 of us, take turns don’t draw more than one at a time.



READ these after the banner is finished• You now have 10 minutes to have everyone

tell: What you drew. Why do you think it needs to be at camp? How were you feeling about your drawing

skills? GROUP DEBRIEF:

• Discuss how our campers feel when we encourage them to do things outside of their skills or confidence level and conversely what they might feel within their skills/confidence level.

• Ask one of each color group to share their banners and tell what they experienced that the campers might also feel.

What Else?What Else?Icebreaker – RFKC Bingo

Chart for Camper’s ApplicationCertification

• Find someone in this room who has done, can do, or qualifies to answer something in one of the boxes. •Write their name in that box. You must find a different person for each box. When the time is called, the person with the most boxes filled wins!

RFKC BINGO

What Else?What Else?

Born outside of the U.S.

Been sky-diving

Added a person to your immediate family in 07

Wearing a belt that is not black, brown, navy or tan

Changed jobs or companies 2 or more times in 06.

Can completethis RFKC statement:“It’s the process, ______ ____”

Grandparents of 3 or more Grandchildren

Hospitalized (not emergency room) in the last year

Skied in Europe in the last 5 years.

Favorite color purple

Wearing bright or crazy socks.

RFKC’s mission statement is ____ ___________

FREE Name the 9 Fruits of the Spirit, found in Galations.

Wearing 4 primary colors: (red, blue, yellow or green)

Owns or owned a motorcycle

Attended a wedding in a foreign country other than Mexico or Canada in the last year

Been bungee jumping

Been a foreign exchange student or hosted one.

Can complete, this line from the RFKC theme song: Gramma, Grampa, ------- and devotions.

Visited someone in prison or jail in 06

Done missionary work in a country starting with the letter C, R, or B

Can Quote Phil. 4:13

Have 4 or more pets

Never heard of RFKC before a year ago

RFKC BINGO

Camper Application IdeaCamper Application Idea

Please check all boxes that describe this child.

Please check all boxes that describe this child.

Encourager Planner Shows Leadership Traits

Peacemaker

High-energy

Dependable Resourceful Kind

Charming Thoughtful Determined Gentle

Forgetful Moody Bossy Non-coping

Messy Critical Aggressive Shy

Inventive Orderly Achiever Fair

Bores easily Practical Winning is important

Keeps emotions hidden

Needs praise

Needs to be appreciated

Needs to be right

Needs not to be rushed

©Vicki L. Barnes – People Skills Series Copying without permission is prohibited.

Other descriptors about this camper that would help RFKC understand him or her better.

A Note from Vicki. . .A Note from Vicki. . .

Please use all People Skills Series materials for Royal Family Kids’ Camps only. Certification for rights to copy is available for anyone wanting to use this material outside of RFKC. Contact Vicki Barnes, [email protected] 800-965-8008, www.Peopleskills4u.com

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