Danebod Family Camp

Schedule

Camp beginning and ending

Camp opens with supper Sunday evening and closes with breakfast Saturday morning. Plan to arrive early Sunday afternoon, in time to unpack and settle in, as activities can begin as early as 4 p.m.

Daily activities

Schedules are adjusted by camp directors according to a weekly theme. Participation in all Danebod activities is encouraged, but not mandatory. Conversations and naps happen. Parents may choose to set a song and dance minimum for reluctant children. Headphones may be helpful during singing for the sensory-sensitive.

After breakfast

Morning singing

Morning dancing

Discussion

Morning activities

Discussion (adults) and morning activities (kids) occur concurrently before lunch.

Pack a mug

Coffee drinks are available for sale during the morning in the pop stand. Proceeds go to the scholarship fund.

Scandinavians are the world’s highest per-capital consumers of coffee, with Danes (who drink an average of four cups a day) coming in fourth.

After lunch

Crafts

Tea time

Free time

Crafts

Crafts vary by year and have included acrylic mural painting, basket weaving, beading, bracelet making, cookie decorating, copper enameling, family band, felting, ice dyeing, indigo dyeing, kids crafts, knitting, rockets, rock painting, round singing, soap making, stained glass, tie dyeing, watercolor, wood working, and writing.

There are two subsequent one-hour craft sessions each afternoon with multiple options to choose from. Certain crafts may require adult assistance.

A young man and man build small rockets they will release later in the week at Danebod Family Camp.
A woman applies multiple colors of dye over a cloth that sits in a pan on large cubes of ice at Danebod Family Camp.
Close-up of a hand picking up a white bead with a needle from a group of blue, green, and white beads
A child applies blue dye to bunched up and rubber banded shirt with multiple dye colors already applied.
A person sifts powder enamel onto a copper leaf. Copper enameling is a popular Danebod Family Camp craft.
Adults mix ingredients wearing rubber gloves in a soap-making class
Three women stand while weaving the bases of rectangular baskets.
Two indigo dyed tea towels lay on the grass to dry. One is primarily white with blue lines in the shape of triangles, the other is primarily blue with darker blue striations.
A girl and woman apply wax to eggs for Ukrainian Easter Egg dyeing craft at Danebod Family Camp
A woman carves out a block in the shape of a flower during block printing craft at Danebod Family Camp

Free time

After crafts and tea time, campers decide how to spend the rest of their afternoons.

The town of Tyler offers a pool with a waterslide, an eighteen hole golf course, and is located near the Buffalo Ridge wind turbines and Camden State Park.

Some campers bring their bicycles and running shoes to take advantage of quiet county roads. Others hang out, play music, or nap.

After dinner

Evening singing

Evening activities / campfire

Coffee time

Late night dancing

Babysitters are available from 8 p.m. until midnight to allow parents and guardians to attend evening activities / campfire, coffee time, and late night dancing. Thirteen is the minimum age to attend late night dancing.