Camp Live Oak Winter Olympics 

Campers spend the day celebrating the fun and excitement of the winter season through archery, festive games, outdoor challenges, and hands-on exploration. Campers will develop accuracy, coordination, and focus as they compete in events such as archery accuracy, winter obstacle challenges, and team relay races. Along the way, they’ll discover the science behind projectile motion and explore how force, angle, distance, and air resistance affect the path of a projectile. The day will end with a camp-wide championship relay race for a chance to win prizes. 

Penguins (5-7): Step into a world of winter competition with beginner-friendly archery, festive games, and outdoor challenges. Campers will learn safe archery skills, practice aiming at colorful winter-themed targets, and participate in fun events like target accuracy games and a simple winter obstacle course while exploring how force and direction affect movement. They’ll finish the day creating ice-inspired abstract art using a variety of materials to create their own unique designs. 

Falcons (8-10): Take on a series of Winter Olympic events as campers practice proper archery form, accuracy, and distance. Campers will compete in target challenges, obstacle events, and team competitions while learning how force, direction, and angle affect where an arrow travels. 

They’ll also collect simple data from their shots and compare how changing distance or angle affects accuracy before finishing the day with ice-inspired abstract art. 

Bears (11-13): Become winter archery experts as campers compete in advanced Winter Olympic events focused on accuracy, distance, strategy, and teamwork. Campers will practice archery at varying distances and angles while collecting observations and analyzing how different variables influence their shots. They’ll explore projectile motion and air resistance before taking on advanced target challenges, obstacle events, and the final camp-wide relay.

Blast Off into Winter 

Campers will blast off on an out-of-this-world adventure combining fishing, rocket science, and exploration. Through fishing challenges, hands-on rocket experiments, creative activities, and team games, campers will discover how objects move, how rockets generate thrust, and how fish and other aquatic organisms are adapted to their environments. 

Penguins (5-7): Get ready for a day of fishing and space exploration! Campers will learn basic fishing skills through supervised casting and explore the life found around the water. They’ll discover how fish use fins, gills, and body shapes to survive before taking part in simple rocket and flight activities that demonstrate force and movement. Campers will then build and paint their own rockets. 

Falcons (8-10): Become fishing and flight explorers as campers practice casting and learn about the fish and wildlife found around the park lake. Campers will explore fish adaptations and aquatic food webs while discovering how different structures help fish survive. They’ll also conduct hands-on rocket activities exploring force, thrust, movement, and distance before competing in fishing and rocket-inspired challenges that test their patience, accuracy, and problem-solving skills. 

Bears (11-13): Take on the role of rocket scientists and fishing experts as campers build their fishing skills through casting, knot tying, fish observation, and aquatic ecology challenges. Campers will examine fish adaptations, predator-prey relationships, and the characteristics of healthy aquatic habitats. They’ll also explore Newton’s laws, thrust, aerodynamics, and the forces behind rocket launches through hands-on engineering activities before putting their knowledge to work during a series of fishing and rocket challenges.

Winter Wonderland 

Campers spend the day bringing a little bit of winter to Florida through canoeing, snow-inspired science, winter games, and creative activities. Campers will explore the park from the water while learning about freezing, melting, insulation, and heat transfer and discovering how plants and animals adapt to different climates around the world. 

Penguins (5-7): Step into a Florida winter wonderland with beginner-friendly canoeing, wildlife spotting, and fun winter activities. Campers will explore the lake with their counselors, search for animals, and take part in simple experiments involving ice, melting, and freezing. They’ll discover how different materials affect melting and how animals stay warm before creating cotton ball snow scenes filled with snowy landscapes, winter animals, and imaginative details. 

Falcons (8-10): Become winter water explorers as campers strengthen their canoeing skills while learning more about the plants and animals around the lake. Campers will complete hands-on experiments exploring freezing, melting, temperature, and insulation while participating in winter-themed team challenges. They’ll also discover how animals are adapted to colder environments before creating detailed winter wildlife habitat dioramas depicting their own winter landscape. 

Bears (11-13): Take on a winter expedition as campers navigate the lake, observe aquatic ecosystems, and compare Florida’s climate with colder environments around the world. Campers will conduct experiments involving heat transfer, insulation, freezing, and melting before putting their knowledge to work in a winter engineering challenge. They’ll also examine how animals conserve body heat and survive extreme climates before creating detailed winter wildlife habitat dioramas inspired by extreme winter environments.

Arctic Rescue MIssion 

Campers take on an action-packed Arctic Rescue Mission filled with navigation, survival challenges, outdoor skills, and teamwork. Teams will work together to navigate an unfamiliar environment, solve problems, and complete a series of challenges inspired by the people and animals that survive in some of the coldest places on Earth. Along the way, campers will explore camouflage, insulation, animal adaptations, and the strategies needed to survive extreme environments. 

Penguins (5-7): Join the Arctic Rescue Mission as campers practice beginner archery and take on fun outdoor challenges inspired by the Arctic. Campers will navigate a simple course, search for clues, learn how animals stay warm, and practice teamwork as they complete their mission. They’ll finish by designing their own Arctic animal based on the adaptations it would need to survive. 

Falcons (8-10): Take on the Arctic Rescue Mission as campers work through navigation, archery, camouflage, and survival challenges. Campers will explore how angle and force affect an arrow’s path while using maps, clues, and teamwork to complete their expedition. They’ll also discover how insulation and animal adaptations help organisms survive the cold before designing their own Arctic animal based on realistic survival traits. 

Bears (11-13): Lead an Arctic Rescue Mission through a series of advanced navigation, survival, and problem-solving challenges. Campers will use compasses, maps, environmental clues, and strategic decision-making to complete their mission while exploring how organisms survive extreme cold through insulation, camouflage, body structure, and resource management. Teams will put their skills to the test during a final rescue challenge before designing their own Arctic animal and explaining how its adaptations support survival.

Hook, Line & Holiday 

Campers spend the day combining fishing, science, art, and festive creativity. Campers will explore Florida’s freshwater environments while developing their fishing skills, learning about fish biology and aquatic ecosystems, and taking on creative challenges inspired by the season. 

Penguins (5-7): Become holiday fishing explorers as campers practice beginner fishing skills and explore the plants and animals around the water. Campers will participate in simple fishing games, wildlife observations, and hands-on activities exploring what fish need to survive. They’ll finish the day painting their own wooden fish, using bright colors and creative patterns to design a unique fish to take home. 

Falcons (8-10): Take on a holiday fishing challenge as campers build their casting skills while learning about fish habitats, aquatic wildlife, and freshwater food webs. Campers will participate in fishing games, observation challenges, and simple ecology investigations while working together to solve problems. They’ll finish by creating and decorating their own painted wooden fish, incorporating patterns and details inspired by real Florida fish. 

Bears (11-13): Become freshwater field researchers as campers develop their fishing skills through casting, knot tying, fish observation, and safe fish handling. Campers will examine fish adaptations, aquatic habitats, predator-prey relationships, and the characteristics of a healthy freshwater ecosystem while recording observations about the organisms they encounter. They’ll finish by creating painted wooden fish, using their knowledge of Florida fish to create a detailed and scientifically inspired design.

Winter Camp Finale 

Campers close out winter camp with a festive celebration inspired by New Year’s Eve! The day will be filled with canoeing, science, outdoor challenges, and creative activities as campers revisit the skills and discoveries they developed throughout the two weeks. Teams will compete in a final camp-wide challenge before coming together for a special noon New Year countdown, music, and celebration. 

Penguins (5-7): Get ready for the winter camp finale with a final canoeing adventure, wildlife spotting, scavenger hunts, and festive games. Campers will revisit some of their favorite science and outdoor activities from winter camp before creating celebration crowns decorated with colorful designs and festive details. The day will end with a special camp-wide countdown and celebration. 

Falcons (8-10): Take on the winter camp finale as campers paddle through a final canoeing adventure while completing science, wildlife, and teamwork challenges inspired by the past two weeks. Teams will earn points by demonstrating skills they developed throughout camp and solving final outdoor challenges. Campers will finish by designing and decorating their own New Year vision boards before joining the camp-wide celebration and countdown. 

Bears (11-13): Take on the ultimate winter camp challenge as campers navigate the lake while completing advanced canoeing, science, wildlife, and teamwork challenges inspired by the past two weeks. Teams will need to use communication, strategy, leadership, and scientific knowledge to complete their final mission. Bears will finish by creating a camp memories drawing that represents their favorite accomplishments and adventures before joining the final camp-wide celebration and noon countdown.