Wahsega 4-H Center: Summer Camp: Cloverleaf Camp
Activities & Classes
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.
Groups
Family Groups
Campers have a choice to make when they check in at camp. This choice is which "Family Group" they 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 lifetime.
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.
Ultimate Frisbee and Healthy Lifestyles
Counselors teach campers to throw a Frisbee then two teams go at it with rules similar to soccer. Then you'll take a break and learn about choosing foods to maintain a healthy diet. 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.
Archery
Learning to shoot a bow and arrow makes this class a great challenge.
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 Campfires with S'mores
On Monday night, campers attend a campfire with their friends. You'll sing songs, hear some great stories and make some delicious, ooey gooey s'mores.
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.
New for the summer of 2011
Wahsega 4-H Center will have an updated high-ropes course this summer. Every camper will get to go down the zip line and experience the challenges of two other high-ropes events.
Hamburger Cookout
It wouldn't be "camping" if we didn't have a cookout. Let us know if you need a veggie-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 nickname: 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 are 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.
Hillbilly Costume Party
The Hillbilly Costume Party will follow the Talent Show. Come to camp prepared to dress up like a hillbilly from the good ole' days of the Dahlonega Gold Rush.
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.
