CLOVERLEAF CAMP EXTRA RESOURCES
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Get ready for a whirlwind week of Cloverleaf Camp at Wahsega 4-H Center. Campers are placed in a number of different groups during the week of camp.

Family Groups
Campers have a choice to make when they check in at camp. This choice is which "Family Group" you want to be in. Family Groups are large groups used for events that are not classes. As long as space is available in a Family Group, you may choose a group that your friends are also choosing to be in. This allows you to hang out with your friends during the high-ropes activities, the hamburger cook-out, the tubing trip and other events organized by Family Group. The idea here is that you get to know your friends even better and build fun memories with them that last a life time.

Animal Groups
Another important group is the one you are in for classes. This is called the "Animal Group".The Animal Group that a camper is in is assigned randomly. You could be in an Animal Group with campers from other counties or other schools from your county. The idea behind a random assignment is that it gives you the opportunity to meet other people in 4-H from other places. Most likely, you will also be in an Animal Group with some people you know.

Cabin assignments
Cabin assignments are handled by the county with which you are attending summer camp. You will be in a cabin with some other girls or boys from your county. There may also be a few campers from another county in your cabin.

KP (Kitchen Patrol)
KP is an assignment that you will receive randomly during check-in. When it's your turn to be on KP, you and a group of other campers from your county and other counties will help set tables in the dining hall and clean up after a meal is over. KP is not assigned by cabin. All campers have at least one meal during which they will be on KP.

ANIMAL GROUP ROTATION CLASSES

Stream Ecology & Gold Panning
Campers learn about the wildlife habitat in Ward Creek, which runs right through the middle of the 4-H center and then get to try their hand at gold panning.

Forest Ecology & Herpetology
Campers will have the opportunity to touch and hold non-venomous snakes and learn about their different characteristics as well as the characteristics of other reptiles and amphibians. Then campers go on a hike in the Chattahoochee National Forest to learn more about the mountain ecosystem.

Line Dancing
Learn the steps and moves to all the popular line dances that go along with songs Wahsega's counselors play at the Night Rec. dances.

Ultimate Frisbee
Counselors teach campers to throw a Frisbee then two teams go at it with rules similar to soccer. Youth at any level of skill or athletic ability have fun playing this game.

Low-ropes Challenges
The Low-ropes (or Challenge) Course has a complete set of elements designed to turn a group of kids into a thinking team.

FAMILY GROUP ROTATION EVENTS

Tubing (or Gold Mine Trip)
Take a lazy tubing trip with your friends down the Chestatee River. This is a Wahsega favorite! Campers are transported by a bus to the river. Tubes and life vests are provided. If weather causes us to cancel the tubing trip, we just go to the Crisson Gold Mine and try our hand at panning for gold.

Family Group Campfire and Star Gazing
On Monday and Tuesday night, the campers either attend a short campfire session with their Family Group or head out to the Rec. Field to learn a little astronomy.

Climbing Wall
Wearing a harness and attached to a belay system, campers face the daunting challenge of climbing a 25-foot wall with nothing to grab onto but tiny rock-like hand holds.

Zip-line
Climb the pole. Jump. Zip. It's easy. Really!
Campers wear a harness attached to a belay system and are transferred to the Zip-line by a counselor stationed at the top of the pole 43 feet up in the air.

Dangle Duo
It's a humongous ladder made of cables and wood beams 35 feet tall!
Campers wear a harness attached to a belay system on this one, too. Teams of two campers get to help each other climb the ladder.

Hamburger Cookout
It wouldn't be "camping" if we didn't have a cookout. Let us know if you need a vegi-burger.

Wet Games
A hot summer afternoon, 200 kids, a bunch of crazy games and lots of cold water spraying everywhere

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Swimming & Waterfalls
This isn't a class, this is what summer camp is all about! Lots of chances to swim or play in the waterfalls are included in this year's schedule.

Bear Hunt
The Summer Camp Counselors have a nick name: they are the "Wahsega Bears". One evening the counselors will hide -- really well! -- and the campers hunt them in teams made up of kids in each cabin. This hide and seek game takes place all over the 4-H center and is loads of fun.

Night Recreation
There's a Costume Party one night. Dancing and crazy games is a tradition at 4-H camp. Arts & Crafts or board games are an option on most nights and the canteen opens the first 30 minutes of Night Rec.

Talent Show
Show off your talents at the Talent Show. Dancers, singers, actors, piano players or campers with any other talents are encouraged to sign up to be in the Talent Show. Counselors provide entertainment following the campers' acts.

Costume Party
The Costume Party will follow the Talent Show. Come to camp prepared to dress up. Look for more information on the Costume Party Theme here after January 2009.

Arts & Crafts
Arts & Crafts is a work-at-your-own-pace option during Night Recreations.

Camp Head
Think "bed head" only more fun. Camp Head is an activity where counselors and other adults decorate campers' hair with colorful embellishments, colored hair spray and hair gels.