Supplies
Find out what supplies you’ll need to participate in our camp crafting and cooking activities below!
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Arts & Crafts
Mindful Mermaid Doodles
- Paper
- Pen
- Colouring pens/pencil (optional)
Jellyfish Cupcake Liner Crafts
- Cupcake liner or 2 (depends on how many you wish to make) or coffee filters for bigger jellyfish
- Tissue paper (or ribbons, several items could be substituted with items around the house)
- Scissors
- Glue and tape
- String (could be yarn, twine, etc.)
- Googly eyes/eye stickers/black marker to draw on the eyes.
Optional: watercolors, glitter, and/or scraps of yarn
Camp Paint-a-long
- Canvas – size of your preference.
- Brushes – Use whatever sizes work best for you and your canvas, or even finger paint!
- Paint – White, Blue, Brown, and personal preference for fun colors (troop colors maybe) – optional: black (if you want to make shadows or outline things)
Origami tent
- 1 square sheet of paper
Bodacious Beachball Lantern
- Round transparent vessel (my samples are a dollar store vase that’s fishbowl shaped and a glass yogurt pot.)
- Tissue paper in the colors you want for your lantern
- Scissors
- White glue
- Water
- Cup to mix glue and water
- Sponge brush or similar
- Led/electric tea light
Hi Barbie! Collage Craft
- Cardstock or similar thick paper of the size of your choosing for base
- Scrap paper, magazines, and/or other craft supplies of your choice
- Scissors
- Glue/tape
- Photo of yourself! (optional)
Junk collage beachscapes
- Paper
- Glue/double sided tape
- A mix of paper ephemera (colourful/patterned paper, old letters, tickets, packaging, etc)
Stitch the Beach
- vintage beach postcards (some printable samples will be provided) or some old family pictures on the beach. Or some stills from movies. It’s best if they’re B/W or monochrome.
- embroidery thread
- a thin needle
- an awl or a thicker needle
- scotch tape or masking tape or washi tape
Optional:
- a ruler
- a pencil/pen
- sequins/beads
- tracing paper or acetate paper
Kaiju/Criptid Paint-Along
- canvas (or thick paper)
- paints (blues, greens, browns, black and white in particular)
- paint brushes, various
- pencil (for sketching out the image)
- something to use as a pallet
DIY Finger Surfboard
- approx 6″x6″ piece of cardboard
- string
- scissors
- a thick needle or hole punch
- paint, stickers, whatever you want to decorate with
Vitamin Sea Yarn Mandala
- 2-4 sticks or dowels of the same length.
- Yarn. Need color inspiration? Think Beach, Camp, or Troop theme!
Optional:
- yarn needle
- hot glue gun
- add-ons (beads, charms, shells, etc.)
Troop Siren Siren Sugar Scrub
- Sugar
- Honey (15ml honey to 75ml of sugar)
- Optional: skin safe food coloring
- Container
Food & Drink
S’mores Popcorn
- 1 bag of microwave popcorn
- 5 graham crackers
- 3/4 cup mini marshmallows
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- Baking supplies: Parchment paper, baking sheet, large bowl, microwaveable bowl
New horizons fruit salad
For the salad:
- Apple (1)
- Pear (1)
- Peach (1)
- Cherries (a handful!)
- OR – ignore this and pick your favourite fruits!
For the dressing:
- Sugar or honey (1 tbsp)
- Orange (1 – the juice + the zest)
Barbie Beachsicle
- 3 Tablespoons butter
- 1 Package (10 oz., about 40) Marshmallows -OR- 5-1/2 cups Miniature Marshmallows
- 6 Cups puffed rice cereal
- Long popsicle sticks or wooden skewer
- Pink candy melts -OR- white chocolate chips with red food dye (natural, vegan, or otherwise!)Optional for Decoration:
- Printer and paper, with tape or other adhesive (optional)
- Sprinkles and other decorations (optional)
- Strawberry, lemon, and/or vanilla crème wafers (optional)
- Cookie cutter (optional)
- Natural Food Dye alternative: powdered sugar and raspberries (optional)
Starfish S’mores
- 1-2 tbsp butter
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch (alternatives can be flour-if flour is used, double recipe)
- salt
- Marshmallows: 1 bag of store bought marshmallows (the square, made to fit s’mores would be easiest) or can be homemade
- Optional: Homemade marshmallows—1 cup of water divided, 2 1/2 cups unflavored gelatin (~3 packages), 1 cup light corn syrup, pinch of salt, 1 tsp pure vanilla
- S’mores topping & decoration: 50 squares (1-2 boxes of graham crackers can suffice) crushed into fine crumbs, 16 oz semi-sweet chocolate (melted), 24 candy eyes
- Baking supplies: mixing bowls, cookie tray, parchment paper, oven
Mothra Balls Oreo Truffles
- 36 Oreo cookies (one standard package)
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 16 oz white chocolate melting wafers (or any other type of meltable coating)
- Powdered sugar, edible silver dust, or sanding sugar (any color) for decoration
Sandy Shortbread Cookies
- 1 cup (2 sticks/8 oz.) unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup (5.25 oz) granulated sugar
- 2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- OPTIONAL: vanilla extract, sprinkles, dried fruit, chocolate chips
- Baking supplies: mixing bowls, cookie tray, parchment paper, oven
TROOP SIREN Merfolk Magic Mocktail
- Pineapple Juice (1/4 cup or 60 ml each)
- Blue Sports Drink (ex, gatorade) (1/4 cup or 60 ml each)
- Lemon lime soda or ginger ale (1/4 cup or 60 ml each)
- Ice
Peachy’s Beachy Libations
- Blue Lagoon
- tall glass
- 1 cup ice
- your favorite single-serve blue drink mix (ex: blue raspberry lemonade)
- sparkling seltzer water or club soda (a flavor that complements your blue drink mix!)
- optional garnish: lemon twist, maraschino cherry, drink umbrella
- drinking glass
- Make it boozy: 1 ounce vodka and 1 ounce blue curacao, 4 ounces lemonade
- Mojito
- tall glass
- 10-12 mint leaves
- 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons simple syrup
- 4 ounces club soda, seltzer/sparking water
- 1 cup ice
- optional garnish: lime slice, mint leaf
- Make it boozy: 2 ounces white rum
- Pina Colada
- blender if you prefer a blended drink
- 3 cups of ice
- 3 ounces cream of coconut
- 4 ounces pineapple juice
- lime juice
- optional garnish: pineapple wedge, drink umbrella
- Make it boozy: 4 ounces Malibu rum (or preferred variety of rum)
- Watermelon Breeze
- blender
- tall glass
- 3 cups cubed watermelon
- 1 cup coconut water
- fresh lime
- ice (enough for the glass)
- optional garnish: sprig of mint
- Make it Boozy: Sparkling Rose (to taste)