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SHTICK
is the highlight of morning line up in many Gan Israel day camps.
Below are various shtick ideas, contributed by Z.
Piamenta. Ø Set up some Sidurim on a bench. Call up one camper and blindfold them. Tell them you are going to direct them to the siddurim to kiss them. While blindfolded add a plate water to bench – the result being the child ends up sticking their face in a plate of water. Ø Plastic tablecloth on the floor or table. Draw six lines with chocolate syrup. Call up six children – they race to see who can lick it up fastest. Ø Send out 3 children. Tell everyone to say "mooooo" really loud when you say go. They should follow your prompt the first and second time, however on the 3rd, when you say go they keep quiet. Explain rules to person sent out – scream mooo when you say "GO"- however, they don’t know that everyone else is keeping quiet, so they end up screeching alone! Ø Call up 4 children, and each take a partner and sit across each other. One partner is blindfolded and has to feed applesauce to her non-blindfolded partner. The team that finishes the bowl first, wins! Ø Call kids up to help make cookies. Add ingrediets like ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, tofu, orange juice, flour, tehini… have them help you mix it then put it in an oven-looking box tell them it's baking. But this box uses an interesting type of heat. So they need to sing camp song really loud and the heat of their breath will bake them. Before hand, you’d obviously put into the box, a tray of home baked cookies in identical baking pan. After singing on the top of their lungs, take out the prepared cookies! Ø Two kids compete: lie on their back (on a mat) with feet in air and a cup of water on each foot see who can keep them up longer Ø Mummy wrap - race wrap partner in toilet paper Ø Two kids blindfolded. Give each child a cup of water and a straw. They have to bend over the table to drink the water with their hands behind their backs. They need to race to see who can finish the water first. However, as they drink you are constantly, secretly refilling their cups with water, so they never really finish. Ø Send out a few kids to act out something, for ex. Basketball. While they go out to practice for a minute tell the camp to guess everything but basketball Ø Egg maze- set up maze of raw eggs, and give a few children a test run of it without a blindfold. Then tell them that you’re sending them out and they’ll have to do it one at a time, blindfolded. After they’re sent out, quickly pick up all the eggs and replace it with a long winding trail of cornflakes. One child at a times comes out to walk the egg maze and the campers drive them crazy directing them "right, left, …careful, but to their horror it sounds like they keep smashing eggs, while to their great surprise they take off their blindfold at the end of the trail and see that all it was, was a trail of silly old cornflakes!!! Ø Counselors do bubble gum skit Ø Counselor skit- pass water thru ears - first person drinks some water and pretends to pass it on to the next counselor through her ear. The last counselor drinks some water before the skit begins, and holds it in mouth… when the water gets “passed” into her ear, she spits it out! The young campers will totally believe this one! Ø Very long piece of thin string tie a candy in the middle two kids race to eat the string see who can get to the candy first. Ø Divide camp into two teams cover 2 long strips of butcher paper on floor (or table) with popcorn kids lie face down, hands tucked under, and race to see who finishes first. Ø Black Magic – one counselor goes out and other one picks an item with the campers. The counselor comes in and has to guess which item it is. Counselor number one points to various items in the room and asks “is it the table, is it the light switch, is it the clock, is it the window shade…” If the clock is black, then the right object would be the window shade – the correct object will always follow the black item. Campers have to try to figure out how the counselor guesses correctly each time. Ø "3 chairs" 2 counselors run show set up 3 chairs one counselor goes out call s/o up to quietly sit on one of the chairs. Then call back other counselor she needs figure out which chair camper sat on. Feel them, smell them…really chair to right is #1 and so on if camper sits on chair #2 then when call counselor in call her with 2 words "Chani Come"- so know it's chair 2 if chair #3 say "Chani come in" can make it more exciting in middle. Tell them to sit on more than 1 chair and then call in twice "Chani, Chani come." |