Camp-A-Palooza

Jl, Ap, Temple City, D10N

On July 29th 2022, Temple City Key Members helped the Temple City Parks and Recreation staff at their Annual Camp-A-Palooza, an outdoor campout for friends and family featuring a variety of different activities such as movies, arcade , and arts and crafts. From 12pm-9pm, Temple City Key Club volunteered to help the check in stand, assist campers with setting up their tents, monitoring the jumper area, and arts and crafts. This year, Camp-a-Palooza’s theme was Super Mario! Volunteers assisted in putting up star shaped balloons, ‘Boos’, and ‘Bob-ombs’ balloons across the campsite. We put up Mystery blocks around the Arcade area all inspired by the infamous game, Super Mario! Afterward, campers began to arrive, and we were called to help set up their tents. Despite our lack of experience in setting up tents, with our determination and teamwork, we were able to help all campers get their tents up safely and properly. Though the weather was not on our side that day, together, we shared laughs paired with delicious burgers provided by the staff at the end of our shifts! Before leaving we snapped a picture in front of the Camp-A-Palooza sign. This service project was a great opportunity to connect with the rest of our community and it was very fun overall! We hope to be back again next year! p style="text-align: left;">To be able to serve and be more involved within the community, Key Clubbers from Division 10 North had the opportunity to help out at Camp A Palooza. Camp A Palooza is Temple City’s unique experience in which families’ have an overnight camping adventure at Live Oak Park. This year had a Super Mario themed experience in which families brought their own tents and sleeping bags and provided arts and crafts, inflatable obstacle courses, an outdoor movie, dinner from Nexx Burger, a continental breakfast, and more! From Friday, July 29 to Saturday, July 30th, Key Clubbers were given a variety of opportunities in which events and areas they wanted to help with either in supervising or setting up. It included experiences with helping food trucks, arts and crafts, supervising jumpers, cleaning and setting up, arcade/games area, and outdoor movie setup. Throughout the camp out we bonded with community members and with one another in various stations.  From 12-9 pm on July 29, we got there early to help set up the campout including camp posts, tents, activities, jumpers, decorating the park, creating decorations, and lifting and carrying many activities from place to place. Once the people started coming in to set up their own areas with tents and sleeping bags at 2:30 pm and attractions opening up at 4 pm, we were able to interact with all kinds of people. It was a lot of fun not only interacting with children, parents, and others from the community, but also watching everyone have a great time. Kids ran around the park and participated in the variety of activities set up from jumpers to arts and crafts tables, to arcade games. The community had also hosted a giant scavenger hunt in which many kids and adults participated with the winner receiving a Yogurtland gift card. At the arts and crafts table, kids and parents included, were able to paint, decorate a hat, and/or make a windmill. At around 8:30 there was a huge blown-up projector in which campers were provided popcorn and cotton candy as they watched “Sonic.” Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers that spent their afternoon helping out! We hope you had a wonderful time volunteering and socializing with Key Clubbers and the community!