We had another letter arrive by owl post today. Aragog let us know that he’d come by and left a challenge, and those who could successfully make it through his web would win house points! I had preset a “laser maze” with yarn. I did it myself before camp started, so I knew it was possible! It took a while for the kids to really explore different movements. They kept getting stuck in a certain place, but for a long time they weren’t at all willing to experiment. B7 finally solved the maze by - literally - army crawling the whole entire thing!

After working a little more on our snitches, we made bleach-resist tshirts. I had cut out carboard shapes of a few popular symbols from the Harry Potter universe, and one by one, they chose where they wanted them to show up on their shirt. Then, I asked them to stand back, and sprayed bleach over the shirts. They were rather amazed by the color changing so quickly (and I was rather thankful - I’d tested it at home the night before and it hadn’t worked nearly as quickly or vividly as I’d hoped, so I was over the moon with how well it worked when it counted!)

I needed a few minutes to rinse the shirts and throw them in the washer, so I set them up with a follow-along art video. They’ve really enjoyed this format of art ever since B7’s art teacher finished up the at-home school year with this style of lesson. Today, we drew unicorns.

Finally, we played “petrificus totalus” tag. You guessed it - freeze tag! We all said “petrificus totalus” when we were freezing someone, and “finite” when unfreezing our teammates. In hindsight, I should have done this earlier in the week before introducing the whomping willow game, as it was a bit lackluster without the extra rescue element.

When we had some free time at the end, they asked to play more Whomping Willow, and then we did a few more building challenges with our troll bogies.