Creative Arts & Crafts

Our Creative Arts Program provides SMA campers with a terrific opportunity to explore their creative side. Whether art is your passion or an activity you like to dabble in, our staff will share techniques and help you craft your ideas.

Art Studio

We have a new Art Studio at SMA where campers can focus their creative energies on projects that are fun, inspired and/or have meaning in their lives. Creating art can be a powerful process of self discovery or simply an expression born from emotion and experience. Our staff are there to teach campers new art skills, guide campers through the creative process and help stimulate creative ideas in campers. Our specific projects include:

• Mosaic Making
• Linoleum Block Printing
• Candle Making
• Ceramics
• Papier-Mache
• Tie Dying
• Painting
• Jewelry Making

People do not usually associate “Creative Arts” with an “Adventure Camp,” but every summer we are amazed at the creativity and ingenuity of the campers involved in the art studio. Spending time in the art studio also offers campers an opportunity for quite space (or loud depending on who is in charge of the i-Pod) to reflect through art their teen experiences.

Music Jam/Rock Band

Whether you are a beginner or an accomplished player Music Jam/Rock Band is an amazing opportunity to be in a band and play music with other campers and staff. You are welcome to bring your own instrument, however, we have an array of instruments including:

• Bass Guitar
• Drum Kit
• Keys
• Acoustic Guitar
• Electric Guitar
• Brass Instruments
• Digital Recording Studio
• PA Systems

Each camp session we gather musicians and create a band of campers and staff. We collaborate to find common ground on songs, set lists and arrangements. We often play cover songs but also love to work out original tunes as well. Our genres include rock, classic rock, progressive, blues, R&B, bluegrass, jam band and even the occasional rap song! Campers sign up for Music Jam/Rock Band as a morning activity and work towards a live performance during the SMA Carnival Evening Activity. We also have a digital recording studio and we record all our practice sessions as well as our live shows.

It is an incredible experience to have invested your time during practice to learn the arrangements of a set list of songs and then perform in front of your peers and friends at camp. The campers even get to name the camp band each session! We started the Music Jam/Rock Band Activity in the summer of 2006, and since then we have had a band perform a live show every camp session!

Culinary Arts

Culinary Arts is offered during our afternoon activity and takes place in our camp kitchen. Our extremely patient cook and kitchen assistant orient campers to the kitchen and instruct campers on nutrition, food preparation and cooking. Campers will work along side our cook and kitchen staff on menu items including:

• Cooking the main course
• Baking a Birthday Cake or other Desert
• Creating unique side dishes

A highlight of each camp session with the Culinary Arts Activity is when campers spend time picking fruits or berries during the first part of the activity and then use these fruits or berries to make desert! This activity is not for the serious chef but rather for campers who love to cook meals, create food and roll up their sleeved and “get into” their work!

SMA Camp Radio Station – WSMA

The “Radio DJs” Activity is offered during morning activity which is a three hour block of time. Campers spend the first 45 minutes planning the radio show; they collaborate play lists and plan special guest interviews including staff and phone interviews with veteran campers. The Radio DJs then record a two hour show that will be re-played that night during the Power Hour of Freedom, dinner & evening crew. (Click Here to see our Daily Schedule) The show is broadcast over our new closed circuit, in-house speaker PA system and allows everyone in camp to hear the show.

The format for the show will include:

• Campers DJs creating a play list from i-pods.
• Campers syncing the radio show to the evening time schedule creating a soundtrack for Power Hour, dinner and the party dish wash in the kitchen!
• SMA news including: the dinner menu, tomorrow’s activities, details about the evening activity and other fun updates from life at SMA!

WSMA is a popular activity at SMA. One veteran campers says, “Music is such a big part of life at SMA each summer, and campers love to play “DJ” in the vans with their i-pods on road trips. The camp radio station is great way for campers to express themselves through music and current information and share it with our camp community.”

Animal Adoption

At Stone Mountain Adventures you have the opportunity to adopt a baby bunny for the time you are at camp. As a “parent” you are responsible for feeding and watering your bunny every day and cleaning the cage every four days. You will often find campers hovering around the bunny hutches, naming their bunnies and making signs for their cages during Art Studio. Bunnies are cuddly and cute and will “love you back” if you treat them with care and respect. Adopting a bunny at Stone Mountain Adventures is the highlight of the summer for some campers.