May 18, 2013
Wet-N-Wild Wednesdays
continued
Later there was a round of Number Ball. The kids and Gail stood in the pool in a big circle. She tossed a couple of balls into the center and began shouting out who could retrieve them.
| "If your name begins with J!" "If you have green in your bathing suit!" "If you have two lips!" "If you think this water is coooold!" |
More parachute games finished up the day. I was impressed with the involvement of the staff. They all seemed genuinely gung ho and made each game an adventure. Gail told me that once a year they even fill up a kiddie pool with Jell-O and let the kids jump around in it. "It's really disgusting," she said matter-of-factly, "but the kids really like it."
[Originally published in June, 2002.]
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