Contributed by: Laura Parker, Doney Park Ward - AZ (10/23/07)

We had the best time and things turned out so great.  Thank you for all your help and ideas.  We did make the goblets, we had each girl decorate two and
used them for the Royal Coronation of Princesses (we had the moms come for dinner one night and they crowned their daughters and said a little about them)
It was very cool, it was also a surprise as we had not told the girls that the moms were coming, only that they had special guests (some girls thought the YM
 - oh yeah, we are having the YM out here in the woods? :-) .  For the dinner we did chix legs, cheese cubes stuck on purple swords, grapes, scone bread -
it was great.  We had decorated the roof over the tables at the camp ground with purple tulle and hung lanterns around.  It was wonderful.  As a craft we
had the girls each make a tiara which is what the moms crowned them with.  We also had a Royal Ball one night with the YCLS teaching the girls line dances -
fun, fun.

Around camp we had painted cardboard dragons (large) and had them sitting in trees around, etc.  We also had an area roped off with "caution" tape where
we had put a skull and bones (from an elk) and made a sign about dragons in area and said that the DSI (Dragon Scene Investigators) had been there
investigating.  One of our leaders made a huge castle front, it was about 12 feet long with two turrets on each end then the middle section with an arched
doorway where we walked to and from the tents to the "crystal palace" or main area.  We named things like the toilets were the royal thrones, kitchen was
the scullery, lake was the moat, area around was the dark enchanted forest, the lost and found was a cage called the dungeon to name a few.  We also
painted some big rocks to look like frogs and we had them sitting around (one in the bathroom) with little gold crowns on their heads.  It was a great camp
and I think our girls had a blast.  We also made crystal slippers for a craft (flip flops with crystals glued on them.  It really was a lot of fun.  One of the
leaders read the girls a bedtime story every night about a princess, check out the story Paper Bag Princess - its really cute.  For our certification of plants,
etc, we had an evil witch give the tour and she added random stuff like poison apples, frog princes, dragon dung, etc., she was great but almost sweated to
death in the black dress and hat :-)
 

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