Scandinavian Camp 2008 a Success!!
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008News from the OR’s Acorn Hollow:
Greetings Everyone~!
This year’s camp was a great success. We hosted 15 children from ages 2 years to 17 years old. One child came all the way from Texas!!
The camp focused on Scandinavian Heritage. Every day we learned something a little more about our Northern Folk. The classes this year were: History; Icelandic Language; Havamal and Religion; Mythology, Folklore, and Sagas; Arts and Crafts; Music; Heraldry, and finally Drama. During the week the kids learned about several aspects of “Viking Culture”, but didn’t limit their learning to just that short period of time. We discussed how the “Vikings” were only a drop in the historical ocean of the Scandinavian people. The kids learned Icelandic Language, performed a skit, created a “Viking Settlement”, played traditional Nordic games such as Tafl and Charades, and created Huldafolk and Thor’s Hammers. Near the end of their week with a special Children’s Invocation that many of the kids said were the most powerful Blot of which they had been a part!