Community Lit Activities Use these activities to strengthen your LitCamp community. Choose one as an alternate to your Opening or Closing Campfire routine if you find yourself with a few extra minutes during a day’s session or to celebrate the end of the week. Activities can be scaled up or down to work for your schedule and your group. Best of all, these activities work well with any lesson. Getting to Know Me Objective Help campers learn one another’s names. Prep Write or have campers write their names on an index card or sticky note (first name only). Go! Place the name cards face down on the floor around the edge of the room. Choose a camper to pick up the first name card. For example, Luis. Campers walk around the edge of the room chanting:
“I’m walking, walking, walking. I’m walking all around. I’m walking, walking, walking. Look who I have found.”
When they say, “found,” Luis picks up the name card in front of him and looks at it. Luis reads the name aloud. For example, Millie. Millie stands up. Everyone chants, “Millie, Millie, this is Millie.” The game continues as Millie goes next until all names are read. Story Building Objective Build a group story, one word at a time. Directions Have campers sit in a circle facing in. Join them, with a ball, in the circle. Explain that campers will pass the ball around the circle from person to person, building a story word by word. You may choose to have the story end when the ball gets back to you, or continue around the circle another time or two. Go! Start the story off with an introductory phrase, such as “On the way to school one day.” Then, pass the ball to the player to your right. That player adds a word or short phrase to the story, such as “I saw,” then passes the ball to the player to their right. Continue around the circle until everyone has had a turn. Note Encourage campers to pay attention to the building story so their additions make sense. Also, explain that when the ball gets about halfway around the circle, the story should be at the midway point too. From that point on, as the ball makes its way back to you, players should be thinking about how to bring the story to a close.
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