What’s A Typical Day At Camp Like?

An Adventure Every Day!

Every weekday, during the June, Main, and 2-Week Camp session, Monday through Friday has the same general outline… but with fun activities, exciting trips, and special signup activities, each day is very different! At Falling Creek, you get to choose how you want to fill your day, and what trips you want to go on.

You’ll have a balance of structure with six instructional activities and two free choice periods daily during the weekdays. At any time in our June, Main, and 2-Week Camp sessions, you can sign up for trips out of camp, ranging from short afternoon trips or overnights, to 3, 4, or even 5 day outdoor adventures in the back-country. If you decide to go on a trip, you’ll simply leave your scheduled activities behind, and plug back into your schedule when you return.

Our Junior Camp Program runs differently and is more structured for beginner campers. You will have the opportunity to sample about 16-18 traditional camp activities together with your cabin during our 6-day Junior Camp session.

So what can you expect during a typical day at Falling Creek?

Morning Watch

We start each day at the peaceful Morning Watch area. After the wakeup bell and cabin clean up, you and your cabin will silently gather together on a bench overlooking the lake. After a few minutes of quiet, hearing only the sounds of nature, a staff member delivers the message for the day. The topic of Morning Watch is up to person speaking that day, but is typically a personal story, a reflection on a Christian Bible verse, or a quote related to one of the four pillars of the Falling Creek Code

Breakfast

Then it’s off to the Dining Hall for a hearty breakfast! For more about meals at camp, you can check out this earlier blog in our “New Camper Series”.

Free Choice

You’ll have the option to choose what you want to do for an hour of free time before lunch and again before dinner. These “free choice periods” are an opportunity for you to enjoy unstructured activities like free swim, playing in the gym, playing games and catching up with friends under the Dining Hall, fishing on the lake, card games, or reading at the library.

Afternoon Activities & Free Choice

After resting up for a busy afternoon, you’ll have your next three activities of the day. You’ll also get to enjoy a second block of “free choice” time. Will you go down the roller coaster at the lake? Challenge your friends to a game of foosball? Read at the grassy knoll? Play “magic the gathering” at the Grid? The choice is yours!

Dinner & Evening Program

After Free Choice you’ll meet back at the Dining Hall for dinner. Evening Program comes next, which is a fun game or event played with the other cabins in your Line. We might play team relay or Taco Cat on the field, have a camp-wide scavenger hunt, play Multiball on the courts, or Yoshi Ball in the “Thunder Dungeon.” You can read more about Evening Program in this blog.

A typical day ends with Milk and Cookies, and Evening Embers with your cabin mates to talk about the day’s adventures.

Evening Embers

After the excitement of Evening Program and nightly Milk & Cookies, you’ll return to the cabin for “Call to Quarters.” This is when you’ll follow your evening routine for bed, including showers, brushing teeth, etc. Every evening after the lights bell, counselors facilitate “Evening Embers” for 15-20 minutes. You’ll light a candle, sit together with your cabin mates, and talk about how your day was, what you will do tomorrow, and what you may want to do before the session is over. As the session progresses, you will talk about the FCC Code, values, hopes, and goals.

Everyone is tired and happy by the time it’s Lights Out, and the next day we do it all over again!