Specialty Classes
Building on the artistic and creative talents of our staff, we create unique classes each summer for campers who enjoy exploring new topics. Specialty classes change each summer, with past classes including: Glass Slumping, Paper and Book Art, Southern Sports, World Dance, Fiestas, Back Porch Cookin’, Marionettes, G’Day Mate, and Black Box Theatre, among others. Following are descriptions of our most popular classes.
Boyz in the Wood
Discover the joy of spending time in the Pisgah Forest tracking, trapping, creating forts and camping out along with other Eagle’s Nest boys.
Just Plain Livin’
Take our simplistic life a step further and learn independent life skills, like how to cut hair and change a car’s oil. Enjoy the beauty of our surroundings while making daisy chains, shucking corn and making homemade ice cream.
Persephone
Challenge yourself to look inside and appreciate the individual person you are becoming. Our female campers learn the story of Persephone, the goddess of perception, and are encouraged to follow her example to learn more about themselves.
What’s Cookin?
Enjoy spending time in the kitchen? Our younger Nesters learn to make jams, jellies, pickles, doughnuts and pie on our back porch after harvesting ingredients from surrounding meadows, our garden or the local farmer’s market.
Added Adventures
Heighten your Eagle’s Nest experience and sign up for one of our Added Adventures. Campers travel to a special destination during the middle week of their camp session to broaden their learning experience. Groups are limited to eight campers grades five through six, and two or three counselors will lead the Added Adventure. Additional fees apply.
Huck Finn
Campers venture into Mark Twain’s novel as Jim, the Duke and Huck and float down the French Broad River navigating by the river banks and stars. Participants prepare rafts and learn from communities established on the river.
- Offered during the middle week of Camp Session II.
- Campers must have completed grade five or six.
- All participants and their parents must complete a camp registration form, submit a deposit, and return the Parent/Participant questionnaire before they are considered for acceptance. (Deadline: October 15th)
Special Activities
Eagle’s Nest Camp also has many times throughout the week when campers can participate in special activities aside from those classes they enjoy during the four scheduled activity periods each day.
Every weekday evening campers have their choice of five activities during our Twilight period. This time allows for campers to experience activities at Eagle’s Nest that they might not have signed up to do everyday. These choices often include activities like swimming or canoeing at the lake, an athletic game such as kickball or ultimate frisbee on the athletic field, an arts and crafts activity like ceramics or tie dye, a nature hike or four leaf clover search, and even letter writing or knitting on the front porch.
In addition, each evening after we gather as a camp community for goodnight circle, the entire camp participates in an evening activity. The announcement of these activities, through skits presented by the counselors, is always eagerly anticipated by our campers. Some favorites include campfires, Air Guitar performances by cabin groups, camp wide games of Sardines, dances, and talent nights.
Saturday afternoons are always special at Eagle’s Nest as well. We have a camp wide activity each Saturday offering campers a fun filled afternoon spent with the entire camp community. Saturday activities could include trying to solve a mystery in a live game of Clue, building your own boats out of cardboard and plastic objects for the Regatta race across the lake, being challenged in a game of World Cup Soccer, participating in a huge game of “Survivor”, or Capture the Flag. The Saturday afternoon activity is followed by a cookout and square dance which features live music from local musicians.
