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Step 39 Activities you can use to bring the Harlam spirit to your gathering (Page 2)Some ways to incorporate camp even if you just want to hang out (Page 6)Transport yourself to Kunkletown with Harlam Zoom backgrounds (Page 7)Mixer Questions to ask your friends (Page 8)Camp Harlam Kahoot (Trivia) - See who knows their stuff! (Page 9)
We have put together a list of fun resources you can use on your call:
Looking for an update about the Harlam Sustainability Fund or camp in general? Please contactJudith Friedman at [email protected] and we'll have someone from the team join your call!
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This kit includes lots of amazing ideas to bring the campspirit to your virtual fundraiser. Here are some other
simple ideas to "campify" your call:
Please send a photo ofyour event [email protected] and tag us on social media@URJCampHarlam!
Send an email with theinformation below to Judith
Friedman, Development Director,at [email protected] to set
up your Virtual Event!
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How to Host Your Own event & Support Camp
Virtual Fundraising
Step 1Schedule it
Choose an activity/resource
Resource Kit
At the beginning and end of your event (andas many other times as you want), ask thegroup to make donations to camp atHarlam.org/Give. Let them know whydonations are so critical at this time and sharewhy giving to camp is meaningful for you.
Host Name: Date/Time of Call:Group you're bringing together:Planned Activity:Is it cool if we drop in? (Y/N)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the closing of camp this summer, Harlam is in a period of significantfinancial need. The generosity of the community has been incredible and we're so grateful for all the support
we've recieved. For those looking for a way to generate support for the Harlam Sustainabiltiy Fund within theirown circles, this guide has lots of ways to incorporate camp into a virtual event or reunion. We recommend youuse virtual gatherings as a way to encourage your friends to support the Sustainability Fund. Throughout this
guide, we've included some additional ideas for incorporating fundraising into your event.
Step 2Plan Your Event
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Wear camp swag like a CIT sweatshirt or staff shirtHave your own milk squad with milk & cookiesPrepare a camp-themed playlist to sing togetherMake it a happy hour! With drinks (21+ only)...ors'mores!Put together your guest list and send those invites!
1If you have any questions, contact Judith Friedman, Development Director, at [email protected].
Raise Money for Camp
Every Saturday morning after Shabbat services, each bunk at Harlamgathers for Sicha Time. This is an opportunity to reflect on the past week'shighlights and challenges, and look ahead to the excitement of the weekto come. This sacred time at camp is a tradition easily adapted for virtualgatherings. Host Sicha Time for your camp friends and allow space forreflection, conversation, and meaningful connection.
Some questions you could use to get the conversation started:
Yellow Meal is the quintessential Harlam meal - and it's so easy to makeat home! Download the ingredients and recipes, and spend the nightwith your camp friends on Zoom cooking up a Harlam favorite. Put yourown fun spin on the meal (maybe a veggie burger instead of a chickenpatty or some surprise spices in your mashed potatoes).
Don't forget to pass and stack - you could even race to see who can getthe dishes cleaned up fastest!
Fundraiser Program Ideas
Activity 1 Sicha (Discussion) Time
Activity 2 Yellow Meal Night
Fundraising Option: Rank everyone's YellowMeal creations. If you come in first and havethe best Yellow Meal, you donate $1, if youcome in 2nd, you donate $2, and so on.
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Did YouKnow?
You can set up your own peer-to-peer fundraising campaign for camp! Youcan raise funds for an important birthday or lifecycle event, between campfriends, to honor someone, or in any way you choose. Get your campaignstarted at Harlam.org/P2P-Sustainability. Email Judith Friedman,Development Director, at [email protected] with any questions.
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What has been something you've had time to do while in quarantine that you might not otherwise have done?What is something you've recently struggled with and overcome? What did you learn?What is something you're hoping to do or accomplish in the coming week?And of course, Rose/Bud/Thorn - Everyone shares a rose (a highlight, success, small win, or somethingpositive that happened), a bud (something you are looking forward to), and a thorn (a challenge experiencedor something you can use support with).
Fundraising Option: To get to choose the nextquestion, you have to make a donation to camp.
Fundraising Option: To get to choose the next song or leadthe next dance, you have to make a donation to camp!
Get your friends together for a virtual take on a classic camp game. Here are a couple suggestions but feel freeto come up with your own (and let us know if you do)!
Sing DownThe host gives a word, such as “summertime” or "happy," and the players must think of as many songs as theycan with that word in them. It doesn’t have to be in the title of the song, just somewhere in the lyrics. Everyonewill write down as many songs as they can think of in 3-5 minutes on your paper. After 3-5 minutes ofbrainstorming, players will go around and take turns sharing one of the songs on their list with the word in it(added fun if they have to sing the lyric). If anyone else has the same song on their list, no one gets a point. Ifthe player is the only one with the song, they get a point. The game continues until everyone has run out ofsongs on their list. You can start again with a new word. You can also use breakout rooms to play in teams!
Pillowcase AuctionThe host tells everyone to take 3 minutes to fill up a pillowcase with anything from around their house they thinkthey might need for the game. When they come back, the host then goes through a list of items they want forthe auction. For each item, if the player put the item in their pillowcase, they can present it and earn a point.Alternatively, instead of filling up a pillowcase, you can go item by item and points go to the first person tocome back to the screen with the item. Some camp item ideas: a camp yearbook, vintage camp gear, a picturefrom camp, a camp fanny pack. General item ideas: jar of peanut butter, cold medicine, a flower, a puzzle.
Fundraising Option: Players can pledge to donate acertain amount for every point they win during the game.
Have a costume theme - award prizes (or even virtual paper plateawards!) for best overall, best theme interpretation, and mostcreative. Don't remember all the dances? Make up your own and teach yourfriends! The more you laugh, the better.
There's nothing like Rak Dan on a Friday night. If you're not familiarwith this camp tradition, check out this video. Get together with yourcamp friends, put on your wildest costumes, and have a dance party!
Check out our Rak Dan playlist on Spotify to get started!
Some other ideas for your Rak Dan Party:
Fundraiser Program Ideas
Activity 4 Virtual Rak Dan
Activity 3 Camp Games
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Every session at Harlam is capped off with the cornerstone event of thesummer, Maccabiah (Color War). Everyone at camp is divided into fourdifferent teams - red, gold, blue, and green - to battle it out in amazingcompetitions for three days. On the final night of Maccabiah is the Zimriah,where the teams present a plaque and belt out a Hebrew song, Fight Song(about how awesome your team is), and Alma Mater (about camp), allprepared or written by staff members.
Get your friends together and come up with a theme and teams. Create aplaque and write a Fight Song and/or Alma Mater. Have a competitionbetween friends to see who can come up with the best plaque and songs (doit under a time constraint for added pressure). Then, send us the lyrics and arecording of your song and we'll share it on social media. At the end of thesummer, we'll let the community vote on the winning songs of the summer.May the best songs win!
On the last night of each session, the CITs put on an amazing themedbanquet. Everyone arrives dressed in costume and when the doors of theChadar Ochel open, there's a mad dash to the table to snag soda and candy.Banquet is THE meal of the summer, one that campers and staff anticipatewith excitement.
You can bring the magic of Banquet into your own home and virtually sharethe experience with your camp family.
First, come up with a theme. You can choose a theme from your own CITsummer, your favorite Banquet theme, or come up with a brand new one!Once you have a theme, plan a meal that falls in line with the theme (or justgo with the classics of mozzarella sticks and mac & cheese). Makedecorations to hang behind you or find/create an appropriate virtualbackground. Dress up for the theme as you would at camp. You could evenfind a playlist that aligns with the theme to have playing in the background.
Now comes the easy part - enjoy a meal with your friends!
Fundraiser Program Ideas
Activity 5 Fight Song/AlmaMater/PlAQUE
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Activity 6 Banquet from yourbedroom
R-G-B-G!R-G-B-G!
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Fundraising Option: Donate $1 if you come in first,$2 if you come in second, and so on. Want to givemore? Try $18 for first, $36 for second, and so on.
Fundraising Option: Havefriends donate a certainamount to virtuallyattend your Banquet!
Harlam staff come from around the world and bring diverse and extraordinary skills to their jobs at camp thatthey love sharing with their campers during Staff Specialty periods.
During your virtual Staff Specialty, invite a group of friends and teach them something you're passionateabout! Maybe it's a favorite camp activity to lead, like "Water" Zumba or bracelet making. Or maybe you'verecently taken up mask making or have learned sign language. Maybe you're learning how to facilitateconversations on race. Bring your unique skills and interests and show off your specialty!
Fundraiser Program Ideas
Activity 7 Staff Specialty
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There are certain songs that are synonymous with camp for generationsof Harlamites - Summertime Forever, Sabbath Prayer, Stars in the Sky.Music is a core part of the experience at Harlam and there's nothing likebanging your hands on the table, dancing in circles, and singing at the topof your lungs during song session.
Get your friends together, find a favorite songleader (or go a cappella),and join together for a song session.
Activity 8 Song Session
Fundraising Option: Participants have to make adonation to camp to make a song request.
The classic rainy day game at camp is perfect for a virtualevent! Have people bring their own Bingo board, send outBingo cards, or even create your own camp-themed Bingocards!
One virtual option for Bingo (free for up to 30 players) ismyfreebingocards.com/virtual-bingo.
Activity 9 Bingo!
Fundraising Option: Ask participantsto make a suggested minimumdonation to play or charge a fixedprice per Bingo card.
5If you have any questions, contact Judith Friedman, Development Director, at [email protected].
Fundraising Option: Set a suggested donationamount to attend your staff specialty.
Pretend you're back on thegreen in the Chavurah village,sitting on the steps of the Beit
Noar or around the fire pit,soaking up your last nights as
a camper.
when you just want to hangout with your camp friends,
there's always...
Green Time
Other Things You Can DoTogether on Your Call:
Variety Showwatch Party
Reflect back on your firstsummer in a village, hangingout in the Pagoda or in the
Ulam, cherishing the newfoundfreedom of being in Senior
Camp.
Brown TimeBring your milk and cookies (or
something stronger if you're21+). Enjoy the late night
conversation until you hear acounselor yell to go back to
Boys or Girls Camp.
Milk Squad
Most Importantly, Don'tforget to support camp!
Harlam.org/Give
KaraokeStart a Book Club
Play a Zoom Game (Pictionary, Guess Who, andScattergories are great options!)Wear All Blackand pretend to gobunk hopping
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Camp zoom backgroundsuse these fun backgrounds during your zoom call to add somecampy nostalgia - or create your own! download ours here.
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3. sing as many lyrics from summertimeforever as you can
4. What's the first thing that comes to mindwhen you think about camp?
5. Share one thing you learned at camp thatyou still use in your daily life
6. what summer spent at camp is mostmemorable to you and why?
7.
mIXERs/qUESTIONS
Share your favorite camp memory
Share your silliest camp memory
what is your favorite camp meal?
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Camp Trivia A, 2.D, 3.B, 4.d, 5.A, 6.C, 7.a, 8.c, 9.A, 10.c, 11.d, 12.A 1.
Key:
These are just some examples of harlam trivia questions. you can play on your own or use them to createa fun kahoot. If you create your own questions, please send them to [email protected].
What Summer did urj camp Harlamofficially open?A. 1958B. 1962C. 1985d. 1999
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Which of these people was not a campHarlam director?A. Lisa DavidB. Aaron SelkowC. arie Gluckd. Jon Schulman
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Which is not a unit at harlam?A. RishonimB. EilatC. Chavurahd. Galil
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What is the record for # of chickenpatties eaten in one meal?A. 6B. 4C. 9d. heck if i know!
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What is NOT an adventure element?A. LakeB. High RopesC. Indoor Walld. Tower
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How many cabins are in boys and girlscamp?A. 19B. 22C. 25d. 24
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What is the prayer we say after everymeal? A. Birkat HamazonB. HamotziC. modeh anid. siyum l'yom
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Finish the summertime forevr lyric: "youborrowed my flashlight..."A. our future looks so brightB. our counselors said don't fightC. we stayed up the whole nightd. i hugged you so tight
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What is one thing you can make at tzofim?A. PitaB. HummusC. Falafeld. israeli salad
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Which is not an iconic camp meal?A. Grilled cheese and tomato soupB. Fried ChickenC. Chicken Nuggetsd. Yellow meal
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What is the name of our amazingcaretaker?A. JimB. JoeC. Lennyd. Larry
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What is the name of our lake?A. lake Joshuab. Lake Abrahamc. Lake JacobD. Lake Pinemere
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Thank you for hosting a fundraiser tosupport Harlam's sustainability Fund. To
let us know about your event or formore assistance, contact Judith
Friedman, Development Director, [email protected].
Thank you
Harlam.org/Give 10
