Come out and play: Youth combine several sports at camp

Published 9:00 am Monday, June 4, 2018

A group practices their bean bag tossing skills before the final competition Thursday.

CHULA — Summer activities continued at Tiftarea Academy last week when the campus hosted a three-day P.E. camp.

Mike Patrick said about a dozen campers participated. Attendees ranged in age from kindergarten to sixth grade.

Though rain forced them to stay inside all three days, all three were busy ones.

Patrick and Amy Strenth ran through a long list of activities. Basketball, kickball, bean bag toss, jump rope, tag, hula hoop, indoor soccer, catching with scoops and an activity inspired by television game show The Price Is Right’s “Plinko” were all attempted.

Soccer required the use of imagination. Masking tape was applied to the bleachers to represent the net on shot attempts. That was not the only creativity in camp as the attendees created their own games.

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The kids rung the basketball hoop with hula hoops. Tennis balls in the scoops also made for a basketball variation. For a few, athletic equipment turned into other objects as two told Strenth they were pretending to be detectives.

Prizes were awarded for skills in different areas and campers were given T-shirts.

The P.E. camp was the second sports camp of the summer at the school. Earlier in May, Strenth and Patrick hosted a youth basketball camp. More opportunities are open for campers at Tiftarea beginning Monday, when the Lil’ Panther football camp and a softball camp open.