Description and organisation
Divide the campers into 2 teams and give each team a coded grocery list. To find out what they need to get, the campers go into a dark room and use flashlights to find pieces of paper with secret codes that let them decipher their grocery lists. The teams then face off with a race to collect the food items that match the descriptions on their lists. Once they have enough food items, they create a balanced meal. If they are missing an important ingredient, they can go get another item, as long as they hydrate properly and squeeze a sponge full of water over their heads.
- Knowledge of nutrition
- Motor skills
- The courses to collect the food items can be done as game modules, obstacle courses, or treasure hunts.
- A kitchen workshop can be done with the collected food items.
Introduce campers to the characteristics of common food items and the concept of a balanced meal.
- Coded grocery lists
- secret codes
- food items
- buckets of water