During this skills outing, we focused on structure building and unusual cooking skills. The structures we ended up making included an archway that we could drive a van through and a teeter-totter bridge that we could walk across. For the cooking, we used strange methods for dinner, breakfast, and lunch.
For dinner, we used an improvised oven made of aluminum trays, metal hangers, and a metal rack all taped together to bake meatloaf. We also cooked biscuits in an improvised cake pan Dutch Oven, and used the leftover coals and aluminum foil to cook banana boats for dessert. For breakfast, we had so-called “hobo eggs,” which are cooked in a bacon-lined paper bag over coals. We finished breakfast off with coffee cakes baked in box ovens. For lunch, we cooked cheese-stuffed, bacon-wrapped hotdogs using marshmallow sticks. Man, even writing this is making me hungry! The food was just so good and interesting this outing.
Another activity we did was play around with PVC versions of didgeridoos, which are a type of wind instrument originally created by the Aborigines in Australia using ant-hollowed tree trunks. Our plastic versions allowed us to create our own lengths and try out the different sounds you can create with length and blowing techniques.
By Emma