Day 2 on cabin duty and a 3 p.m. storm had me improvising with 12 campers (ages 8–10); I’m learning fast but could use a simple, field-tested rainy-day plan and a bedtime routine checklist. Any PDFs, one-pagers, or quick games you use, plus tips for easing homesickness at lights-out?
With 12 8–10-year-olds at 3 p.m., run a rain-bin circuit: four 8–10 minute stations (cups + ping-pong bounce, tape maze, card pyramid, silent charades) rotating on a whistle, then a two-minute “beat the counselor” finisher. Building on @sjones, my bedtime one-pager is 5–3–1 — 5 min teeth/water, 3 min “tomorrow ticket” note, 1 min box-breathing — plus give the homesick kid a quiet job like light monitor and ask, “what’s one thing I should check with you in the morning?” I can share the one-pager PDF if you want.
Try a rainy-day reset with ‘sock-snowball’ target toss (rolled socks + tape bullseyes), then a 10-minute flashlight read-aloud in forts to bring the volume down. At lights-out, a picture checklist — water, bathroom, 2-minute stretch, 4–7-8 breaths, short story — and a tiny ‘worry box’ by the door for homesick notes you answer by breakfast is a cheat code for cabin calm; if space’s tight, swap forts for a quiet ‘statue museum.’ Want my single-sheet template?