Last week I was the camp director for the Girls Scouts' Super Secret Summer Spy Camp. I'm a "go big or go home" kind of girl, so I stuffed it full of spy skills, spy crafts, ninja skills and spy facts. For those of you playing the home game, here's a brief rundown:
Spy crafts
- Keyhole Spy Tool
- Reverse sunglasses (sunglasses with mirrors inside so they can see in back of them)
- Escape scarves
- Code cylinders
Spy skills
- How to tell if someone is lying
- Body language
- Spy lingo
- Spy team
- General sneakiness
- Ninja skills
- Spy gadgets
- Disguises & voice modification
- Codes and codebreaking
- Spy science
- Codenames
- Maps
- Some lovely literature from the CIA
- Fingerprinting and subsequent fingerprint art/bookmarks
Spy games
- International telephone (get one secret from one country (tree) to the next without being discovered
- Hostage rescue (letterboxing for puppies)
- Escape maneuvers (parachutes)
- Waterboarding, er, water games
- Zombie tag. Come on, you knew I couldn't let a week with 60 girls go by without slipping in the Undead somewhere. ;)
Not bad for a two-hour a day twilight camp, I tuckered those girls out! Double agents were kept to a minimum and a giant family BBQ/pool party rounded out the week but now it's back to zombies and ghosties for me. At least they're quieter...
A big thank you to my staff and my daughters who helped run the camp. Next year: ghost hunting?
What's on tap for the rest of your summer?
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