Bucket of Bones
This activity is very complex and should be reserved for the older campers, but it is an interesting and exciting activity for smaller groups ready for a little thought after an active day. Simply find a skeleton of a large animal (we use a White-tailed Deer), and gather the bones as soon after they are clean as possible to prevent rodents from eating them. Make sure that you bleach all of the bones to kill any germs. Spread the bones out on the grass and assign your campers the job to put the deer back together as best they can. The skeleton amounts to a large jigsaw puzzle. Help the children work through the process by identifying bones that belong somewhere in the leg, somewhere in the back and so on. After this help, the pieces tend to fall into place, yielding a deer sprawled out on the grass.