in camps when there is adequate
equipment for Basket-ball and Tennis, but more especially where there is
a lack of it.
Individual games, such as Archery, and Quoits make the time pass
pleasantly and profitably for a few who like to go off by themselves.
Dancing
Dancing is an interesting pastime for camp and fills in many gaps.
It is a help in entertainments and if you are to have an end of the
season pageant, it is well to hold dancing classes regularly so that
there will not be endless rehearsing for the last days.
There are three types of dancing which can be presented. The Aesthetic
or Classic, the Folk Dancing and the Social Dancing. For the most part,
the Folk Dancing is freer, easy to learn and more suited to the
community as a whole than the Aesthetic work.
It is better not to attempt much dancing in your schedule if you have no
piano or stringed pieces, for although there are phonograph records to
be had, the supply is too limited to be entirely satisfactory.
A collection of English Country Dances by Cecil Sharpe are dances that
everyone can do and enjoy.
Horseback Riding
The joy of horseback riding does not find its way into every camp,
mainly because of the expense and responsibility entailed, but if it
does there are many facts to know and master in horsemanship. For
instance, one should know how to take care of a horse, which means
feeding, watering, saddling, grooming, shoeing, tying and general care
necessary under different conditions.
The requirements for riding are to know:
1. How to mount and dismount correctly
2. To be able to demonstrate riding at a walk,
trot or gallop
3. To be able to jump a low hurdle
The requirements for driving are:
1. To learn how to harness correctly in a single
and double harness; and
2. How to manage a horse on the road
2. CRAFTS AND OCCUPATIONS
But sports are not the only side to the camper's program. Another very
large and absorbing part is the Crafts, inclusive of Handcrafts,
Woodcraft, Campcraft, and the distinct Scout occupations, such as First
Aid, Home Nursing, Gardening, Signalling, and Homemaking, treated in the
Girl Scout Handbook.
Handcrafts
The handcrafts are more numerous than your fingers and can be defined as
anything that is done with the hands. It is possible to have almost any
branch of the Fine Arts and the Applied Arts as dyeing, b
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