What to Do the Night Before

• Pick a cabin name! It can be your family name plus the number of people in your household, or it can be as crazy as “Jellybean Supernova 432!”
• Create a cabin cheer!
• If it’s possible, choose as a family to limit your use of technology to really focus on each other and be intentional.

How to Have a Quiet Time

What You Need: Bible, journal, and pen

What to Do: At camp, we have quiet time because we desire our days to be centered around understanding God’s character and His word! Take 5-10 minutes (or longer) as individuals to open God’s word.

Activity: Here’s an easy way to dive into Scripture (that requires no preparation) in four simple steps

• Pray for the Holy Spirit to lead your time of reflection
• Pick a chapter of Scripture (or maybe even something from a storybook Bible)
• Read the chapter
• Journal about what you heard or what stood out to you!

Optional: Talk about it! Discuss with someone what God revealed to you during your time in the Word.

Spirit Stick 101

Option 1: Keep it Simple

Just do your cabin cheer as LOUD as possible. Seriously, the neighbors should hear you!

Option 2: Pick a Theme

• Who (or what!) will your cabin be? It can be anything! Ex: sheep and a shepherd. A bunch of M&Ms. Space cowboys. The options are endless!
• Come up with a cheer for your theme! Let’s say you are Space Cowboys; here’s an example of your cheer:

“We’re the space cowboys and we’re here to say
We love Jesus everyday
Our love for him is outta this world
So giddy up partner, let’s give it a whirl!”
*everyone spins around for no reason*

• Rehearse this cheer and perform it! Share a video of it online and tag us with the hashtag #pinecovecampkit — you may be awarded the spirit stick from our resident staff!

Pine Cove Program Videos

Shark Double Trouble

The Fronas Brothers

10 Things I Love About Dibs

Questions to Ask at the Table

• If you could ride any animal into battle, which one would you choose? Would you make that animal giant or small?
• If you could push your nose and anything would come out of your fingers, what would it be?
• If you could fill a swimming pool with anything and then dive into it, what would it be?

Do a Camp Dance

We’ve stuffed this playlist full of your favorite classic camp dances! Pick one and get on your feet to bring some energy to your morning!

Need a tutorial on the dance moves? We’ve got you covered – our staff will walk you through step by step on these classic dances:

• Wobble
• Chainsaw
• Church Clap
• Soldiers
• Scatman
• Kinfolk
• Footloose
• The Monkey

Bible Study Questions

Ask these questions and take turns answering in the group:

1. What stood out to you from the chapter?
2. What did you learn about yourself or the Gospel?
3. What is God uniquely impressing upon your heart?
4. Is there anything you need to confess?

Many camps use this method to lead our time in the Word with our summer staff. Craig Langemeier, our Chief Ministry Officer, shares why he encourages us to lead staff small groups in this way:

“What I have found while doing this method with our life group at church is that after asking the first question, it is not uncommon to not even have to ask the other three questions because the conversation often naturally goes to that level. If it doesn’t go that direction, don’t be discouraged, but just ask the next question at the appropriate time based on the group discussion and the time you have available.

At the end, spend some time praying as a group. I would encourage less taking prayer requests and more time praying as a group and let their prayer serve as a request.  

My hope is that this time will provide great spiritual discussion while being an easy model for [your family to follow].”

Want to keep these questions handy? We made these bookmarks to stash in your Bible as a reminder!

Devo Videos from Pine Cove Staff

Devo from Timbers Camp Director, TJ “Philly” Connor

Devo from Bluffs Women’s Director, Meredith “Mama Bear” Ward

Devo from Silverado staffer, Cameron “Blast” Hernandez: Honesty

Devo from Silverado staffer, Tyler “Sharky” Hood: Integrity

Devo from Ridge staffer, Dax “Keeps” McKee: Isaiah 45:7

Swim Checks

Water Tag

What you need: 1-2 spray bottles, or empty dish soap bottles with the cap on

What to do: It’s just like the rule of regular tag, but the way the person who is “it” tags other players is by squirting them. The person who is tagged takes over the spray bottle and now needs to tag the other players.

You can also play in the same way but as Freeze Tag! Players “unfreeze” frozen players by tagging their hand. If the “it” person manages to freeze everyone, he or she wins!

If you have a backyard pool, you can play this game in the shallow end!

Water Limbo

What you need: a hose!

What to do: Use the water stream from the hose as your “limbo stick” and have family members try to go under the “stick” without touching it. The “stick” gets lower and lower each round.

Freeze Up

What you need: 

• Kiddie pool
• Water
• Ice cubes

What to do: Fill the kiddie pool with water, add ice cubes, and have each person try to remove the ice cubes with their feet. For a real challenge, have each person remove the ice cubes using only one foot. The person to remove the most ice cubes is the winner.

Source for Freeze Up: FamilyEducation.com