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July 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Some themes might NOT be appropriate for your next summer camp!
Shelby County Arts Council

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, today we are talking about bad camp theme,
bad camp themes, the nose of camp, the nose of camp,
theater and art camp. So stay tuned to hear what
you should not do as a camp theme. Welcome to

(00:33):
conversations with Creatives with the Arts Counsel, ladies, And today
we are talking about We're talking about bad camp themes,
bad ideas, bad ideas. We're going to help you today. Yeah,
we don't want you to fall and have a pitfall
of a very bad theme and nobody signs up for
your exactly, yes, because I'm sure some of these have

(00:56):
been tried.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm sure you know.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I think some of them.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I guess you can't put you think that's somepe some
lovely folks out there, even even Leslie. Yeah, okay, So
this was actually this came from another podcast, right to
from Faith Adjacent. So they did. They do these episodes
called the Nose of Something, and one of them was
the Nose of vbsbs right, and so at the end
they had bad themes for vacation Bibles. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was like, I know, we've all.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Been to vacation by school, We've all helped. So I
was like, I think this would be great for like
bad themes for our art and theater camp because we
do those every summer.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
We're in the midst of them, right. Theater care camp
is going on right now.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Next month, we'll have four art camps, so a lot
going on. We brainstormed independently our our own camping, so
they're pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Let's just kind of let's go back and forth. Do
you want to go back or do you want to
let's let's do one another the other. Okay, let's do
that that way.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, I love it. So I'm I'm gonna do art
camps and I'm going to do theater camps.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
All right. So here's my first my first bad idea
war any any of the wars, no war, no war.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
You don't want them to paint like you can use
red paint. Hey, you got a lot of red paint,
A lot of red paint for you, Yes, but paint
blood everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think I think you might not have a lot
of sign ups. See, they could use army men.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
They could use army men. Okay, let's not give them ideas.
This was a bad war art camp, all right. The
economy might get a little boring. It could be the
economy at any point in time, not a current economy, just.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
That was really bored in economics class. So this might
not be And I was in high.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
School, this might be a little challenging to maybe come
up with, like some crafts for the economy the economy.
The only thing I came up with was that what's
that insurance commercial with the little stack of money with the.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Eyeballs on it? Was it progressive or something?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
It was one of those Well, and you know, if
they try to like create their own money, we might
get in trouble with the government. That's true.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, we don't want to do anything illegal.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, so not the economy, Nope, don't do it. All right,
moving on, I got burning Man.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I don't even this. I didn't even get.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
But so I agree.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I did actually look up the definition.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I kind of loosely knew what burning Man was, but
this might be a very poor art camp theme. It
is a it's a week long experience focused on art,
self expression, and self reliance, and it culminates in the
burning of a large wooden effigy known as the Man,
which could be interesting to go burn by fire out

(03:35):
fire party, but I think the parents might frown on
that one just a little bit. So and the city
made the city might yes, the fire department the burn
down all of old Mill Square Park. Yeah so uh
no fires, No, no fires, We're not going to do
that one. No burning of effigies. Don't worry, City of Columbiana.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
We're not doing safe. You're safe from our art camp
at least.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
All right. I got potentato potato. We're gonna we're gonna
make art about potatoes.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Potato a great thing though.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
You can like make an accordion and yellow paper and
it's a little crial for it. We make with potatoes,
potato potatoes, so there's not much these potato paint potato spuds. Like, yeah,
you know you can make stamps. Yeah, yeah, so potato.
No glitter they could rotty, but yeah yeah, glitters and

(04:29):
other stuff glitters.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
No glitter is band at the Shelby County Art right.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
We do not support glitter unless a glitter company wants
to support us.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
That is totally. We will take your money glitter companies.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
But I'm sorry, even as fancy and extra as I am,
I hate glittered or we can't do it. My kids
know that they glitter.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Cannot try hard glitter. We nothing, don't do it. No glitter.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's it's a dangerous it's a slippery slope, all right.
My next one is it's called fifty Shades of.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Beige Beige to work all.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Babe, And that title is a little risk gay the
beige kind of funny though, but you know it's funny.
You know it grabs the eye because they're like, what's happening?
They would be like fifty shades of beige, just kidding,
just kidding. We use all the colored surprise. And also
the kids have to wear like kaki pants and kaki shirts. Bae.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's just whitish. It is white. Okay, I'm sorry you
have you seen what you're wearing?

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Breads? Yeah, okay, okay, I get it, all right, Okay,
So my next one is a brutalism art.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't think that would fly too well at camp.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
It's a little too uh brutal, brutal, but it's it's
more like cold and geometric and concrete, so utilitarian aesthetics.
I don't really think that flies well. And no camp,
whenever you're like we're here to have fun, no, no,
that's not fun. Fun and then this last one, I'm
gonna have to read a text message because this is

(06:05):
This was brought to my attention on behalf of my
sister because I texted.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Her and Brandy I was like, Hey, I have these ideas.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
You want to throw some out there, please do And
so I texted her all of my ideas that I
just read, and she said I would stay away from
war in the economy because those can get political potatoes.
There's also medieval cats and reality shows. And then she
followed up and said, I'm not sure what I meant
by political potatoes, but I stand with it. Political potatoes

(06:34):
potatoes also not a good art camp.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Not a good art camp.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I mean, it would be funny to see every politician
made into a potato.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
But I mean that might not be the most fun
I mean.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
For maybe that could be for adults to get kind
of yeah, kind of messy.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It might be messy with political views, yeah exactly. But also,
I mean medieval cats.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I kind of think that's a genius art camp. Have
you ever seen a medieval cat and a painter? It's like,
I had these people.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Ever seen a cat? Like why do they look like human? Kids?
Would be like maybe scared, scared of those cats.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Scared.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Actually, that doesn't look like my sweet little fuzzy cat.
Oh no, that's not Mellie. That's not Melli.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
I actually gave my sister a medieval cats calendar for Christmas,
So I think that's where that's that's really funny. And yeah,
and then the last how is reality shows? I just nope,
you know, I know sometimes VBS tries to do like
when Survivor was like new it's like GBS Survivor, you know,
I just I don't think they knew what Survivor really

(07:35):
was then, So I don't really think that would flyaking
somebody else. You get kicked out of your VBS class
a blankly, like you've been asked to leave the church,
get out, voted out, voted out.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's not traumatizing it all now, not at all.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
So no, we're going to see her clear of reality
shows for this art camp as well. So that's my
that's what I okay, okay. This is probably the first
couple are probably for those that are familiar with theater, because.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, not all theaters appropriate for kids, like if
they came up.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
You know, there's a lot of junior shows we're doing
The House Rock Junior, which is like a shorter version
of some shows. The Rent Junior, I'm not sure. No,
a little tricky, It would be tricky. I think you
might come up with one song from one song, and
then it would up with one song.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
The whole show would just be we'd have to come out.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
So not going to do Rent Junior. A great, a
great show, but maybe not little Ones. Yeah, Dinna Manzelle,
Yeah that might have been her first. I'm probably making
that up.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, a Leslie fact. That's a Leslie fact. Goodness. Okay,
So the Rocky Horror Picture Show Junior.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, you can't just put junior and at the end
and it becomes like the Full Monty Junior. Yeah, you
can't just take a theater show and put Junior at
the end.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
These would be perhaps inappropriate for a little bit, both
of them.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
The Full Monty, which I had to explain to Leslie
what this one was.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
She did not know. So she's going to watch a
movie and we have a friend that we won't name,
but had to go see.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
That endure a performance of it. Didn't know that what
that he had to go by himself.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
He did go by himself.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
And yes, maybe he's traumatized, but okay, some other ones again,
anything about war, maybe no war. I don't think we
want to reenact war on theater children, No, not so much.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I mean anything with guns does not need to be
in the theater now, Like it's kind of a bummer.
So maybe maybe no war, no war, no war. What
about you know the popular the game five Nights at Freddy's.
That might be a bad one, or Nightmare on elm Street,
Mare Street.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Maybe some horror movie action horror movies also would not
make a good theater cano. Sorry, I know the kids,
some of them probably like horror movies, but we can't
do it.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
A camp about it. This is probably my favorite. Chuck
E Cheese.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Now I have some idea turned into a musical. I
don't think so there should be a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Five Nights freddy is like the horror movie. Yeah, or
even although.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
I did spend a lot of birthdays Chucky Cheese or
show biz z was like a bear. Yeah. I had
some questions about this because so Leslie kept telling me.
I was like, what's this character's name? She kept going
show Biz. I was like, no, that was the name
of the restaurant. She's like, no, his name is Showbiz.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I was like, wait a second, did Chuck did Charles
entertainment cheese like buy out Showbiz bear entertainment cheese, and because.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
There's no more show Biz. I don't think they changed.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So do you think Charles, yeah, entertainment cheese. That's what
he stands for. I don't know what else to tell you,
what else would it stand for? And this Charles entertainment cheese.
Of course, he's got his rat band at his child casino.
How many of you have saw children their parents try
to take them.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Up the sea chucky cheese to see the little dancing
weird rats.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
They were like no, like, is the scariest looking thing
I've ever seen. So I get wear five Nights of
Freddy Came Back because it's pretty terrifying. But do you
think Charles like bought out Showbiz bear for the company
and the bear's gone, the bear with the red and
yellow stripe overall?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, I thought he was like a mole at first.
I didn't. I don't know, I don't know what he is.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
These these characters are very clearly like just rip off
of like the Muppets for something, and then for some reason,
Chef boy Ard don't want.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
To talk about the Muppets. I have trauma, trauma from
the Muppets. We're not talking about the Muppets, so we'll
traumatize you with chuck E cheese.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Good.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Okay, So the last.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
One kind of going off reality TV show. I don't
think there should be a kids musical made about the Kardashians.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Perhaps not.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I think, you know, that might be a little a
little much, A little bit, yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
A little bit yeah, I think that wouldn't work. Not
for children though. Pa No, so we hope none of
you have done these things.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
But I do have a solution. She has to have
a solution to all your problems. I also have a
visual aid. So I A drew this yesterday.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's her best artwork yet. This is my best artwork.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Cut. I call this the triangle of safety. This is
the triangle of safety. Your themes right here that are
safe to go with. Yes, I'm many dbs's. This is
the route they go like every year. So we got
we got the beach up here, we got space, which
actually are our camp was space last year. Yeah, and

(12:53):
then we had our theater camp, and our theater camp
was space. It was Gulliver's Travelers in Space. I might
not if you think that sounds strange.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
It was a little bit range.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Let's move on.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Let's move on, and then we don't want to talk
about that.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
We also have the Wild West, which I get can
be a little tricky too. Yeah, I have some questions,
but it's more just like cowboys and cactuses and ye
hauling and roping and stuff like that. So we got
our three safety zones. If you stay within the trickle
of safety, you're guaranteed to have sign ups. You're guaranteed
to have no parents calling you like, why are you

(13:28):
burning something in the parking lot?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Why did my child learn this this word that they
didn't need to know yet exactly?

Speaker 2 (13:36):
So why are you guys like making art about war?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
You know? So why did my kid come home crying
about a giant rat? Exactly as a giant singing rat.
So stay within the triangle of safety. Yeah, you're guaranteed
to have a successful art and theater camp. Hey, you're welcome, everybody,
You're welcome. We know you needed to know that and
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(14:00):
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
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Speaker 1 (14:15):
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