What is a Program Leader?
ODS Lingo
Sample Schedule
How to Be a Mentor
How and When to Set Goals
Ways to Be in the Cabin
Skits and Cabin Calls
Shower Time
Being a Guest at Meals
PM Time
Times to Check In with your SLs
Feedback—What to Look For
Ways to Help Returnees Grow
How to Teach an SL to Be a Mentor
Nice Things to Do for Your SLs
Breaks!
Recreation Ideas
Games for Cabin Time
​PL Evaluations

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RECREATION IDEAS

• Friendship bracelets
• Dream catchers
• Elderberry beads
• Basket weaving
• ODS memory books
• Draw / paint
• Make / write cards
• Shrinky dinks
• Candles
• Origami
• Paper beads
• Sunprints
• Gnome homes
• Sand castles
• Nature mobiles
• Leaf art (rubbings or gluing down)
• Outdoor cooking
• Painting rocks
• Go track hunting and make casts of them
• Egg drop
• Fire castles (make castles – or whatever- out of paper from the recycling bin and burn them with contests for which one looks most realistic on fire, burns the fastest, longest, etc).
• Hike
• Commando hike
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Save the planet rec. (tear out invasive species)
• Archery
• Raccoon circles
• Croquet
• Quiditch as a field game