Task three: become a spectator of others completing tasks with bamboo swords—see if they do it right.

In this competition each team will develop a strategy, using bamboo, to get through the thorn thicket.

This game will mimic the bureaucracy side of plumbing—passing responsibility down the bamboo pipeline.

In this final competition teams will sign their murals on the side of the barn with huge bamboo brushes.

In this class campers will learn how to avoid stupidity by writing things in a bamboo notebook.

Teams will compete to construct bamboo scaffolding to strengthen the main building.

In this class students will construct their own paper for writing with flat bamboo strips.

In this class students will learn a simple arithmetic technique: using bamboo to mark intervals.

In this class campers will learn how to make bamboo boxes to give one another.

In this class campers will learn how bamboo records were kept anciently, using symbols to show how much people paid for things.

In this class campers will learn mopping techniques by mopping up spilled bamboo shoots in the kitchen.

Task four: as the sun sets on the last day of camp, campers are about to turn in their bamboo swords.

"Please wait in the bamboo forest outside the temple building site until you are invited in." (Buddhist Temple)

"Can’t wait for Camp Bamboo at the Buddhist temple!" (Camp Bamboo)

"In class campers will only use swords made of bamboo for combat practice, learned through a series of tasks." (Camp Bamboo)

*blunt sword *modified bamboo

"Task one: use bamboo swords to supervise the food dish, keeping flies away." (Camp Bamboo)

"In this class students will get answers to a tangram by fitting various bamboo shapes into a frame." (Camp Bamboo)

"In this contest, the team who gets the most laughs performing a skit about bamboo causing premature death will win." (Camp Bamboo)

laughing panda with squinted eyes, no bamboo, so he dies young

"Task two: make bamboo baskets while supervising the food dish." (Camp Bamboo)

"In this class students will construct their own pens out of bamboo and fur." (Camp Bamboo)

In this class students will construct their own abacus for calculation with two hands: a bamboo frame with eyeballs as beads.

"In this class campers will learn to use bamboo chopsticks fast, like Mr. Miyagi." (Camp Bamboo)