Rovers Forest Ninja

Explore the forest with your ninja teachers and team. Play fun stealth games and learn martial arts movement from our local animals. Stretch like the otter, leap like the deer, and run like the coyote!

Learning Objectives

We create an entire atmosphere to embrace the way of the ninja.

• Different movement for a healthy body
• Meditation for a healthy mind
• Bird language to strengthen intuition and learn the ways of nature
• Martial Arts of self defense
• Stealth and camouflage for ninja missions

Embrace the Way of the Ninja

• Teach kids about respect, flow, patience, listening, the art of being quietly effective, and the benefits of stealth.
• Teach them the lifestyle of the ninja: how to be one with all things.

Bring in your favorite fictional ninja/Zen-like characters

• Yoda
• Kung Fu Panda
• Ninja Turtles
• Lego Ninjago characters

Ask the kids who their favorite ninja characters are and find out about them so you can bring them into camp.
This camp is rather unique. It is a beautiful balance of movement and stillness, combat and peace, and it is an opportunity for all campers to become one with the natural environment around them.

Morning Movements

• Yoga
• Martial arts
• Calisthenics
• Animal shapes

Weaponry

• Boffer swords
• Pool noodles
• Punching pads
• Throwing stars
• Staff
• Nunchucks
• Bow and arrows

Stealth and Stalking

• Learn to move silently through the wood so you cannot be detected
• Sneak up on faeries or elven habitats
• Fox walk
• Camouflage: 3 Ds - dull, dapple, duff
• Eagle eye

Obstacle Course

End of the week activity
Create from a week’s worth of activities: now is the time to use the skills you have learned

Other Activities

• Slack Line
• Tea Ceremonies
• Meditations
• Sit spots