Camp Activities

Explore some of the many activities on offer during your time with Life Skills & Adventures

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Gravity Zone

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Bowling

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Art & Crafts

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Games

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Beach

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Adventure

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Archery

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Cooking Class

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Fire Pit

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Yoga

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High Ropes

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Social Disco

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Gravity Zone

Gravity Zone is an indoor entertainment venue with over 180 trampolines, ninja course, foam pit, multi-level kids playground & more!

Trampolining is a unique activity as it allows everyone to participate no matter your ability or skill. Whether you’re jumping as high as you can, scaling the pro wall or bouncing on your bottom everyone can have fun on a trampoline and seek the same trampoline benefits as each other.

Research shows that children with special needs benefit greatly from regular exercise and trampolining, in particular, provides many additional advantages. Using a trampoline to exercise is now more commonly known as Rebound Therapy.

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Bowling

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It’s no secret that bowling is a great activity for kids to blow off some steam and share fun moments with the group. Bowling is also very beneficial for your child’s self-esteem, mathematical skills and social skills.

With gutter guards and bowling ramps, achieving even the simplest components of the game are made super accessible to little hands.

Between strikes, you can share good conversation and laughter with fellow bowlers, and since there’s an activity to focus on, even the shyest kids can feel safer about coming out of their shells.

Arts & Craft

Our arts and craft program is a great way of allowing  children to process their world, to deal with sometimes scary emotions in a safe way, and it gives them critical sensory input.

Arts and Craft encourages fine motor skills, neural development, and problem-solving abilities and it can be used effectively to teach and understand other key subjects such as reading, writing, math, and science.

We find that children love art as a source of beauty and expression, as well as simply for the fun process of creating.

Games

Campers will participate in a series of fun activities that focus more on active participation than competition. Fun, physically challenging games that will have everyone smiling in a supportive and positive environment. Held on both the camp’s indoor and outdoor areas, activities can include ping pong, 9 Square in the air, Gaga Pit, Soccer, Basketball and Tennis to name a few.The emphasis is on ‘TEAMWORK’ and how each individual participates and contributes within a team environment.

Learning outcomes for participants include:

  • Hand-Eye coordination and fine motor skills
  • Individual challenge and self-accomplishment
  • Personal growth.  

Beach

Our beach walking will take participants on a beautiful journey of discovery around the camp and Picnic Bay areas, visiting local landmarks and taking in iconic views. The activity is tailored to suit all age groups.

Walk through open sandy areas, woodlands, and wetlands of our national park. Highlights include:

  • Spectacular views of the beach
  • See Melbourne’s Skyline
  • Boardwalks
  • Play in the sand and build sandcastles
  • Prolific bird-life – excellent vantage points for bird watching 
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Adventure

Plenty of quality adventures await our happy campers. Adventures include:

high ropes course,

low-ropes course,

flying fox,

giant swing,

bush walking,

beach activities.

All programs are individually tailored to suit the specific needs of your child.

Archery

This is one of our most popular activities! Archery can be enjoyed by all ages, abilities and skill levels, with bows designed for each individual age and ability fired towards the target under skilled supervision. Archery provides participants with a new outdoor experience, develops fine motor skills, increases self-confidence and you will gain an understanding of the fundamental skills and safety issues associated with Archery. This activity is sure to hit the mark!!

Learning outcomes for students are; –

  • Hand-Eye coordination and fine motor skills
  • How to string a bow and shoot safely
  • Individual challenge and self-accomplishment 

Cooking Class

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Who loves tacos?? WE DO!! After a fun, adventurous day, kids with a hungry tummy get to enjoy cooking and eating some delicious Mexican treats! Children will be able to customise their tacos to suit their dietary requirements and individual taste-buds.

Fire Pit

Situated right in the heart of the camp-site is the fire pit. There’s nothing quite like watching flames dance and coals shimmer under a star-lit sky, with only a breath of cool breeze whisking embers high into the night air. The perfect way to
relax after a ‘hard day camping’… We even provide the marshmallows!

Yoga

What a brilliant way to start each day with a Yoga session.

During our yoga class we explore a range of practices that include breath control and specific body postures that provides a range of physical, spiritual and mental relaxation.  Yoga helps teach children to be calm, while gaining awareness of the bodies, self-control and discipline.

When children practice yoga it increases their confidence, builds concentration and strengthens growing bodies.  For children with behavioural issues, yoga can improve their impulses in a positive direction and provides them with an outlet as a way to manage their behaviour and relaxation methods to practice in everyday life.

At the end of each class we finish with ‘Quiet Time’, during this time we explore different breathing techniques and meditation. We want the children to leave the class feeling calm and grounded!

High Ropes

Come and experience the native Australian bush like never before as you climb, weave and fly through the tree-tops on the high ropes course. Experience the thrill and freedom of defying gravity on our elevated tightropes, cargo nets, bridges and rope ladders before soaring to the ground on the epic flying fox.

*Guests using the High Ropes course will be correctly fitted with a sit harness and attached to a continuous belay overhead tracking system; a certified operator is responsible for hooking and unhooking the participants.

Silent Social Disco

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Our Silent Social Discos have become a great way for many kids to experience a fun dance party without the anxiety of the loud music. Each headphone has its own volume control so the audio can be as loud or soft (low) as desired. When you take the headphones off, there aren’t any speakers playing music so it’s as if you were just in a room with other people socialising.
What’s even more special is that everyone, regardless of their background, has headphones on. This gives everyone the feeling of belonging to the same party. Life Skills & Adventures takes it a step further by having our DJ’s appear as if they are battling one another. Each DJ has a channel color, so they try to create micro communities: “team red”, “team blue”, and “team green”. Very often there’s only one person listening to red and dancing like no one else. This is okay and is exactly what to expect in a silent social disco.
We think it’s important that everyone has the opportunity to experience music in a way that encourages singing, dancing, laughing, and togetherness!