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In the words of legendary rocker David St. Hubbins, “It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” Well that is pretty much how you can define a flashmob. As you may know, a flashmob is a coordinated group of people who assemble or perform in a public setting to the surprise of everyone else.

Several of my YL friends have recently done their own YL flashmobs. Here is one from my great friend Chris…

I think the key is to minimize driving, emphasize being polite, and keep it moving.

Here is the plan we used:

Here is our birthday song:

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I have yet another great resource from Hugh in North Carolina!

In a past post I asked people for their input about weekend camp activities. Hugh mentioned the “Clubble”. The Clubble is Club in a bubble (of course).

Basically imagine club in a huge plastic tent blown up by fans.

Then inside of the “clubble” you can have club. The projector can simply be projected on the inside of the bubble. Also, since it is an enclosed place it is a great location to do a messy club. At Hugh’s club they have done food smashing skits with the sledge-o-matic (ala Gallagher for those of you who remember, or maybe you tried to forget).

I liked the idea so much that while I was doing program last summer at Lost Canyon I tired to get the whole camp into a clubble for the messy games. That didn’t work out but we did use it as part of the obstacle course. It was a ton of fun. The only problem is that Lost Canyon is in,well, a canyon, and thus it can get windy at times. So the clubble almost blew away a few times. We had Summer Staff holding the clubble down while kids were in it, sometimes in the dark… well at least we tried it.

Hugh was nice enough to give great detailed instructions about how to build a clubble, complete with links to the Home Depot website so you can see exactly what you need and the cost.

This could be a great event to do in the midst of a long Spring semester to mix things up.

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I love the creativity of YL and WL leaders! My friend Dougie from Canada (eh), and no that dance is not named after him… anyway he had a creative club event. He had his WL kids make a movie together. Below are the plans and resources that he used. Thanks Dougie!

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Need an alternative to club for the end of the semester or during the summer before camp? We did an all-area Putt Putt tournament and it was super-duper.

We worked out a deal with the local goofey golf place for $4 per person. We charged $5 for kids and free for leaders. It worked out just about right.

We had a small club at the end. This included a contest for best-dressed and lowest score, though you could probably have lots of other things like that too. Maybe a final putt off at the end.

Here is the scorecard with some fun tweaks on the how to play. Enjoy!

Last Monday we did Toilet Paper Club. It was a shorter club, then we Tee-pee-ed our rival high school.

We asked each student to come with one or two rolls of toilet paper and camo gear.

The other club let us get them for a few minutes and then ran out with pillows and squirt guns. Pretty fun. Make sure you have rides all lined-up and parents in the loop.