New Outdoor Activities This Year
JUGGLINGWilly Badger, our resident clown and comedian, will be teaching juggling tricks to all children this year. He'll keep it simple for the younger ones. For the older groups, they will have a chance to try their hand at balls, boxes, hats, juggling clubs, along with plate spinning and Japanese Kendama!
UNICYCLEIf your son or daughter wishes to learn to unicycle, Willy will be offering 9 children, ages 8-11 years, the opportunity each week. Please register your child early to ensure a space for this. HAND-HELD STILTSWe have purchased three pairs of hand-held stilts for all children 5 and above to try each week. The free standing stilts will be limited to 5 children each week. RIBBON TWIRLINGAlong with poi, the ribbon twirling will also be available each day as part of our outdoor program.
A MAGICAL MORNING GARDEN Bill Ledbetter, Ross Lynde, and Nathalie Vachon are working to create the most Magical Morning Garden! Each day when the children arrive, teepees will be set up, different music and rhythm experiences available, plus wondrous group art projects. INDIAN DANCE Jayanthi Siva, our camp dancer and movement coach, will be teaching the art of traditional Indian dance during our outdoor lunch program. GROUP GUITAR Ross Lynde, our music director, will be offering group guitar lessons each lunch hour. We will have 6 guitars on hand each day. If your child would like guitar lessons every day, we recommend bringing a guitar from home.
New Indoor Activities This Year
ORIGAMI Sumie Morota is bringing along her papercraft expertise from Japan this year! Each week the art of origami will be available to all children, tall and small.KIMONO In our first week of Camp Magic this year, Sumie will be helping the children to create a beautiful silk kimono for the end of week performance.SILK CRAFT / PICTURE FRAMES As we are traveling to the silk road this year, there will be plenty of crafts this year using silk fabrics. The children will each help to make a picture frame covered in silk, that will house their weekly camp photo.
Regular Returning Features Offered Each Week

DRUMS AND RHYTHMAt Camp Magic, there is always lots of rhythm through the use of drums. We have hand-drums (djembes and darboukas), African style djun djuns, and a huge antique Chinese drum.HOOLA HOOPSOver the past couple of years many children have become awesome hoola hoopers at Camp Magic!SINGING AND MUSICWe have talented staff who can play different musical instruments. Please visit our Camp Crew to see what they can do!
ARTThe art program is headed up Nathalie Vachon. She will be guiding the children through one main art project each week, plus full group collages and paintings.CRAFTCraft is the fiddly fun stuff that all children seem to love!
PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLINGKatherine, Bruce, Nathalie, and Dan are our main storytellers at the Singapore location of Camp Magic. All other facilitators enjoy sharing stories with the children, too.LITTLE LANDSJunk, glorious junk! One of the children's favourite rooms at Camp Magic is little lands. It is filled to the brim with re-cycled junk... loads of wonderful fabrics, egg cartons, neck-ties, old toys, plastic bottles... Each day the children paw through piles of stuff and find some very cool things!
FRIDAY CARNIVALAfter the children have finished their final rehearsal in the morning, we will again be holding last years successful "Friday Carnival" where each group will rotate around to a variety of fun and different activities (different Monday to Thursday fun activities!!)
POIEvery girl and boy loves to swing poi! Each morning and afternoon our box of poi will be ready and waiting.COOKINGSee our weekly calendar to find out what the children will be making every Friday for the end-of-week party.
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