This is a two-day Grandma Camp, for an 8 year old. It worked out really well and I’d do it again.) I started with a list of foods and a list of activities and then decided to connect some of these to Jedi Training, making sure he did something that fit into the different elements of a Jedi’s training:
- 1: Trial of Skill: Puzzles and games
- 2: Trial of Courage: Handling hot soap base and going on a bug walk
- 3: Trial of Flesh: Yoga
- 4: Trial of Spirit: The Force
- 5: Trial of Insight: Scavenger Hunt
Day 1: This is run-of-show and we followed this plan until the end when Sabacc came after Light Sabers and ice cream was eaten while watching one of the movies. That made more sense anyway. Ice cream should not be eaten during Sabacc, obviously.
- Jedi Training: Galaxy’s Edge Matching Game (with siblings)
- Star Crunch Wookies (with siblings)
- Galaxy Doh
- Jedi Training: Death Star Pizza, light saber breadsticks, fruit salad and R2D2 punch (R2D2 punch was just sprite + blue Gatorade)
- Jedi Training: Jedi Yoga
- Jedi Training: Play Sabacc and have Chewbacca Chocolate Ice cream
- Light Sabers
Day 2: This is the run-of-show but we ended up not following it as closely as planned. We did everything on this list but things were slightly out of order in the middle. It all worked out. We also had a small The Child figure that he could have painted if he got bored or we found ourselves with more time. Instead, we watched more movies and chilled with Star Wars games on the iPad.
- Ronto Wraps, Leia Buns, Bright Suns Parfaits, Moof Juice, Green Milk (milk with some squirts of chocolate syrup and green food coloring), Mandalorian Cereal.
- Jedi Training: BB8 Soap making
- Jedi Training: The Force (with balloons)
- BB8 quesadilla, Blue Milkshake (We vitamixed some vanilla ice cream, a shot of chocolate syrup, milk, blue food coloring), Han Solo Carbonite Jell-o (we mixed red + green jell-o to make a brownish color.)
- Galactic Slime (We just purchased silver glitter slime with Star Wars croc charms and Star Wars confetti mixed in and then we made some teal colored slime for the fun of it with glitter glue, eye drops, and shaving cream.)
- Jedi Training: Blowing Up the Death Star (A storm trooper action figure was inside of the death star and we used a water gun to blast it. While he enjoyed this activity, I would do this one differently. Following these directions did not work out as well as I would have liked. Doing it again, I’d start with a bath bomb recipe and mold the death star myself by hand and add some light carvings to it.)
- Jedi Training: Bug Hunt (He needed to face his fears of flying bugs and find a bug to hold/pick up. It was rough but he did it.)
- Jedi Training: Scavenger Hunt
- Go home: Jedi Mix during the drive home, while listening to Origami Yoda. (our Jedi Mix was thin pretzel sticks dipped in red and blue chocolate to look like light sabers, orange m&ms, white cheese balls, Mandalorian The Child cereal.)
