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New Mexico, United States
Camp Enchantment, or Camp E, is a week long camp for children who have or had cancer. Camp is what all of the counselors, staff and campers dream about all year long. For the campers it is a place where they can be who they really are. They can be kids. Our staff is made of predominantly volunteers from all over the United States.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Once Upon A Monday...

Well, another amazing end to another amazing day! This morning campers woke up in their cabins with their counselors ready to take on the first full day of camp! It was super windy this morning so some of our classes had to be adapted... flexibility is the key to success up here! All of the campers got to choose what they wanted to do between sports and games, Cake Boss, arts and crafts, geocaching, leather crafts, and more. Our talented campers are already filling up our walls with drawings and the "drying table" at arts and crafts is full! The campers love creating these special items that they get to take home and remind them of camp all year long.

This afternoon the whole camp participated in C.I.T. Games (games and activities run by our AWESOME counselors in training)! We had castle building, weapons practice, and magic wand creating! After all of the glitter had settled... it was time for a quick swim! Of course, the campers LOVE SWIMMING more than anything! We had a great time hanging by the pool, catching up, and playing games.

After dinner, we were all in for a special treat. Clan Tynker, a family circus, put on an AMAZING show for us! There was juggling, unicycles, stilts, dancing, and magic! We also had a very special "Once Upon A Time" cake that was delivered right to our gym. It was a beautiful asymetrical cake with all kinds of Alice in Wonderland decorations.

We had a wonderful day and now all of the campers and counselors are fast asleep (hopefully!) resting up for another exciting fun-filled day at camp! Check out all of our photos below!

ALSO, we were featured on the news tonight on KOB Channel 4! Check out the great videoclip at


Campers listen to Lead Counselor Jay tell the story about the Giant and Camp E, the Dragon who breathed fire on the stairs of Cabin Spartian, and brought along gremlins to Camp. The campers joined in on a quest to build Shrinky Dinks in Arts & Crafts, Magic Wands and Castles at the CIT Games, Practice their water skills with supersoakers to fight the giant, and then build cakes at Cake Boss.

Weapons Practice to fight the Giant at Camp E



Cookie Monster building at Cake Boss



Counselor Kyle having a great time in the pool with the campers



Camper Ashley showing off her frog Melty Beads project she made in Arts & Crafts


Once Upon A Time carried through into the night with an Alice in Wonderland Cake that the Camp feasted on with our special guests for the evening

Clan Tynker Family Circus came out to visit Camp E with fire juggling, magic tricks, music, dancing, and so much more!! It was truly a magical evening with our guests! The Campers were in AWE the whole evening!



Camp Enchantment with Clan Tynker


4 comments:

  1. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the updates and pictures! Keep them coming!!! We really appreciate seeing a little bit of what our first time camper gets to enjoy. We miss him so much! Thank you for taking the time to blog for us.

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  2. Yes, keep the updates and photos coming!! That cake is awesome! Did the campers get to eat it? I bet it was yummy.

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  3. Thanks for stopping by to see the Campers!!! We will do updates each day as our internet allows! :)

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  4. Oh, the Campers DID get to eat the cake!

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