Page 5 - Fall 2020 CMTA Report

Tuesday night scavenger hunt, an “Day after day, the screen lit up
“adventure room” on Wednesday,
a movie night on Thursday and with over 100 beautiful faces …”
the traditional dance party on the
last night. Props from the Camp
Camp Footprint’s traditional feet, foot care is critical, and the
in a Box enlivened each activity:
powder battle, including packets camp goody boxes included a vari-
There were free pizza gift cards for
of powdered chalk in the camp ety of tools for taking care of them,
campers to use on Movie Night
boxes and instructing campers to including foot lotion, portable foot
and ribbon wands and glow
go outside on the final day and baths, hot and cold packs, pedicure
bracelets for the Camp Dance.
film themselves, their friends and boards and stretch bands.
Camp days started with
families dowsing each other in the Camp director Jonah Berger,
announcements, stretching or
colorful dust. a 30-year veteran of the camp
chair yoga and the CMTA Youth
After the general session ended business, cited several unexpected
Council’s broadcast-quality News
at 9 pm, campers split into their benefits to conducting camp
Report, including a weather fore-
cabins for “Foot-time.” Because online. The Zoom platform
cast that was always sunny and
CMT destroys the long nerves to (continued on page 6)
beautiful—everywhere. Campers
then moved on to a full day of
programs, one every hour from
10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Day-time
sessions also included a number of
typical camp activities—everything
from arts and crafts to beatboxing
to baking and decorating cakes
and cookies—ingredients all
included.
Pranks are always a big part
of Camp Footprint and this
year was no different—campers
enlisted the families of their coun-
selors to deliver pies in the face
and ice-water dunkings. The plan-
ners even managed to pull off
the

VIRTUAL CAMPING
Left: Counselor Cassidy Miller, 20,
worked online from Ohio.
Right: CMTer Elsa Groenink, 15, CAMP IN A BOX
and her sister Molly, 13,
camped out in Michigan.

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