Camp Kakamora: Moana Girls Camp
Camp Kakamora
We called our Moana themed girl’s camp Camp Kakamora after the name of the crazy coconuts on the movie. The theme of the camp was “Come what may, I know they way.” I share more about the theme in our Moana pillow treats post. I enjoyed planning this girls camp and have been planning on writing up a bunch of different posts on different parts of the camp, but I can’t find the photos to share. There is so much good stuff to share! I’ll do my best to describe and share what I can for this camp.
You’re Welcome
My brother-in-law is a fabulous lyricist and I begged him to change the words of Maui’s You’re Welcome song to a girl’s camp version. We used the song as part of camp kickoff and then at camp. It took the leaders a lot of practice to perfect the song but it was great!
Camp Welcome
To get the girls excited about camp we made up little welcome envelopes. I’m a big believer that the invite sets the tone for a party and wanted the girls to have something to interact with before camp kickoff. Inside the envelope we had:
- Introduction to camp announcing the theme and our camp dates.
- Questions for them to answer out so we, as camp leaders, could get to know them better.
- A mad-lib take on the ancestor song. Just to give them a chance to reflect on who they are.
- The supplies and instructions to make a paper lei. It’s just string, straws and paper flowers that I cut with my Cricut.
Moana Themed T-Shirts
The camp leaders wore a different Moana themed shirt every day of camp. I picked the shirts up at Wal-Mart and used iron on vinyl for the designs. You can download the design png’s below.
To save some money we eliminated the traditional camp shirt and replaced it with a camp hat. The hats are from Wal-Mart and we cut glitter iron-on vinyl on the Cricut and ironed them onto the hats. The girls loved these! You can download all of these files before.
Moana Sails
One of my favorite parts of camp was the Moana sails. We made them by cutting a 3×5′ drop cloth in half diagonally making 2 sails per drop cloth. We serged the cut sides and folded the other sides over to make tubes for PVC pipe to slide through to hold the sails shape.
Before camp I cut the heart of te fiti shape out of freezer paper and ironed it to the middle of each sail. On the first day of camp each tent got to paint and decorate their sail. Freezer paper works great as a stencil because the wax side of the paper adheres to the fabric and you can paint over it and then easily peel it off the fabric. Each tent painted a different colored heart of te fiti and and decorate their sail however they wanted to. We drove rebar stakes into the ground outside of each tent that the long PVC pipe slid over to hold it up.
Camp Crafts
From past years our girls had said they don’t like taking home big camp crafts so we did 3 small camp crafts. Two were from Oriental Trading that are no longer available on their site. One was a shell necklace and the other was a bracelet. Our third craft was to carve bars of soap into the heart of te fiti. We used pocket knives, and bobbie pins to get the swirl just right. The girls spent quite a while working on these and shared tips, like use water to smooth the soap edges, with each other.
Read more about our camp:
Moana themed Girls Camp Tuck-in Treats
These ideas are amazing! I’m just curious what you used the Mad Libs Moana song for? It says on the worksheet that girls answers would be used at camp? And how did you incorporate the ancestors stories?
A few girls shared their ancestor stories each day after lunch, or when we were waiting for things to start.
I love all of these and will be using many of your ideas for our camp! Do you have a download for the Camp Kakamora banner you’ve used? I’d love to have one printed out and hanging when the girls arrive. Because I seriously lack in the graphics department, is there a png for the Village Crazy Lady and You’re Welcome shirt? I LOVE LOVE LOVE everything you’ve done!!!
I am a newly called overwhelmed young women president. We can’t get any members to say yes to the calling of camp director, so I am pulling it together. Your Moana camp ideas are saving my bacon, big time! I was wondering if you would send me the lyrics / music to the you’re welcome song by Maui that you redid?
Let me make sure Nikkala sees this. Good luck! I’m sorry no one is stepping up to help!
Hi Shanti,
The lyrics are actually the 1st download of this post. It’s obviously outdated because it says Beehives, but maybe you could find a 2 syllable word to replace it with?
Very fun designs, you are very talented!
I am looking for the two shirt downloads for 1. You’re Welcome and 2. Village crazy lady – but I can’t seem to come across them. Do you still have them? Thank you so much for sharing your hard work.