Adventures in Cardboard demands the use of legs and feet as much as hands and head, seeks to unleash a zeal for creative role-playing, and uses “wonder” as the preferred path to igniting a passion for design and construction.
TWO LOCATIONS for 2013:
Bryant Lake Regional Park, Eden Prairie
(with bus service to/from Powderhorn Park)
- Bryant Lake is a ‘Three Rivers District’ park with woodland trails, a swimming beach and open prairie!
- Full day workshops available, Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm
- School bus service from Powderhorn Park, leaving 8:30am, returning 3:15pm.
- Four workshops in one day: arms and armor, magnificent castles along the woodland trails, swimming and canoeing, arts electives and student-designed live-action games.
- Lifeguard Certified Staff at Waterfront. Great staff to camper ratios.
- Weekly rate: $285, (+$20 to reserve bus transportation)
- Sliding scale fee slots are available for each class on a first come, first serve basis. As part of our mission we are working to strengthen and supplement this program in the future.
Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis
- A quiet and pastoral park encircling a living lake and island.
- Morning and Afternoon workshops available, Mon-Fri.
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Hours
- Morning Workshop 9:00 – 11:15
- Lunch Break 11:15 – 12:00
- Afternoon Workshop 12:00 – 2:15
- Weekly Rate: $150 am or pm class, $285 for full day
- Sliding scale fee slots are available for each class on a first come, first serve basis. As part of our mission we are working to strengthen and supplement this program in the future.
2013 Class Descriptions & Schedule
Week 1: CASTLE ADVENTURE, June 10-14
CLASS FULL (wait list only)
Bryant Lake Regional Park (Full Day) · ages 8-14
Four spectacular activities in one class: arms and armor, giant castles, swimming/canoeing and live-action games.
Design and build an actual castle to inhabit, attack and defend with basic woodwork framing and large cardboard construction. Make walls festooned with battlements. Raise towers. Install a gatehouse with portcullis, arrow-loops and drop holes to defend the entryway.
Construct and design suits of armor. Make your visor like a lion or hawk’s beak, enlarge your shoulders and add spikes to intimidate your foes, leave room in the taces to ride into battle on a bicycle. Add your blade, ax, mace, halberd, spear or other deadly accoutrements.
Develop group identities and team strategies to defend or storm the castle in daily competitions of capture the flag and other group-designed play scenarios. Plenty of paved paths for bicycle patrols, open fields for pitched battles, shoreline beaches for longboat raids and wooded trails for haunted towers and wizardry! Options for play limited only by your imagination.
Week 2 : VENICE IN POWDERHORN, June 24-28
Powderhorn Park (Mornings and/or Afternoons)
AM: Cardboard Boats · ages 8-14
AM: Cardboard Boats · ages 8-14
MORNING CLASS FULL (wait list only)
Navigate Great Lake Powderhorn in your brand new cardboard boat. Design and construct a vessel of cardboard with a wax finish. Pontoon boats, rowboats, small sail craft are among the available designs, or risk it all and go for your own design. PFDs provided.
Afternoons: Cardboard Floating City · ages 8-14
We will create large floating rafts anchored to the bottom of the lake and a cardboard city atop these rafts. Each raft may serve as a ‘city block’ forming ‘canals’ to paddle through. Cardboard boats built in the morning session will be the means by which to visit the amazing floating city and navigate its twisting canals. What surprises will you leave for visitors in your archetecture?
Week 3 : CASTLE ADVENTURE II, July 8-12
Bryant Lake Regional Park (Full Day)· ages 8-14
Four spectacular activities in one class:
arms and armor, enormous castles, swimming/canoeing and live-action games.
Design and build an actual castle to inhabit, attack and defend with basic woodwork framing and large cardboard construction. Make walls festooned with battlements. Raise towers. Install a gatehouse with portcullis, arrow-loops and drop holes to defend the entryway.
Construct and design suits of armor. Make your visor like a lion or hawk’s beak, enlarge your shoulders and add spikes to intimidate your foes, leave room in the taces to ride into battle on a bicycle. Add your blade, ax, mace, halberd, spear or other deadly accoutrements.
Develop group identities and team strategies to defend or storm the castle in daily competitions of capture the flag and other group-designed play scenarios. Plenty of paved paths for bicycle patrols, open fields for pitched battles, shoreline beaches for longboat raids and wooded trails for haunted towers and wizardry! Options for play limited only by your imagination.
Week 4 : LAIRS OF MYTH & LEGEND, July 15-19
Powderhorn Park (Mornings and/or Afternoons)
Mornings: “Faerie Houses, Goblin Huts” · ages 7-12
MORNING CLASS FULL (wait list only)
Faeries, Nymphs and Goblins: what do tales tell about where these beings live? Will they come if ‘houses’ are made for them? Explore Powderhorn Park to find hidden places to craft dwellings. Cardboard and birchbark may be used as a base along with any materials we can get our hands on. Twig tipis? Leaf lairs? Bark bungalows? Hollowed-log halls? Do urban faeries adapt to rusted bolts, torn rubber and the twisted detritus of the road?
Afternoons: “Minotaur’s Giant Maze” · suggested ages 7-12
Collectively create a giant walk-through maze. Kids have made mazes in the past that have kept people lost inside for over twenty minutes! Each day add hidden rooms, secret doors, traps or other devices to deceive friends once we’ve invited them inside. Smoke machines, special lighting and other effects available. If inclement weather is likely, this class will be held in the gymnasium.
Week 5 : CASTLE ADVENTURE III, August 12-16
Bryant Lake Regional Park (Full Day) · ages 8-14
Four spectacular activities in one class: arms and armor, magnificent castles, swimming/canoeing and live-action games.
Design and build an actual castle to inhabit, attack and defend with basic woodwork framing and large cardboard construction. Make walls festooned with battlements. Raise towers. Install a gatehouse with portcullis, arrow-loops and drop holes to defend the entryway.
Construct and design suits of armor. Make your visor like a lion or hawk’s beak, enlarge your shoulders and add spikes to intimidate your foes, leave room in the taces to ride into battle on a bicycle. Add your blade, ax, mace, halberd, spear or other deadly accoutrements.
Develop group identities and team strategies to defend or storm the castle in daily competitions of capture the flag and other group-designed play scenarios. Plenty of paved paths for bicycle patrols, open fields for pitched battles, shoreline beaches for longboat raids and wooded trails for haunted towers and wizardry! Options for play limited only by your imagination.
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