A Camp Fire camp focuses on the creative enrichment of an individual. It is an outdoor learning laboratory with unique opportunities for campers to understand their relationships with their environment.

It is a place where optimum conditions for learning to live with one’s self and with others can be created. It, too, must emphasize the small group the individual attention the acceptance of difference the loosely structured, child-centered approach.Ī Camp Fire camp is a microcosm in which all the elements of life are intensified by the total environment. It is a concerted effort to help each child grow to adulthood through their own experiences. The program is an overt effort to confront the great variety of individual differences in a loosely structured, child-centered way. The basic strength of Camp Fire programs anywhere and under any circumstances, is the unique characteristic of the small group and of the attention provided for each individual. It may be a group campsite in the park, a day camp, on a farm or at a council owned resident camp. A Camp Fire camp is any place a group of youngsters with mature leadership has an organized, outdoor experience while living in groups.

The outdoor environment reinforces the Camp Fire approach to working with youth. It is also a unique educational and recreational experience. Camping in the out-of-doors is the normal extension of Camp Fire’s small group-centered program.

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