Mealtime Fun At Many Point Scout Camp, July 2025
stevejb68 on September 22, 2025 in Humor, summer campThe Scouts of Melrose Area Troop 68 have been attending Many Point Scout Camp for their week long summer camp adventure for over 35 years. The troop usually stays in the Buckskin Camp although they have tried Ten Chiefs Camp a couple times. Buckskin Camp has a dining hall. The Scouts do some of the own cooking in Ten Chiefs with one cooked meal per day brought to their site.
The troops attending Buckskin Camp gather on the parade ground outside the dining hall before each meal. They are released one troop at a time to enter the dining hall so there are not hundreds of Scouts trying to enter the building at one time. Various methods are used to decide which order the troops are sent to the hall, with trivia being a popular way to do it.
At breakfast time, the staff will lead the all the Scouts in a rousing song, which is usually a “repeat after me” song. Many of the songs will also involve some sort of hand gestures. It is a fun way to get the Scouts ready for another fun day at camp.
I video recorded a few of these songs this summer and edited them to one video which I then posted to the Melrose Scouting Productions channel on Youtube. Watch the video and let us know how you feel the staff did during these songs.
