2 - Program Choices

Design leather and crafts to fit your camp goals. Here are some ideas.

1. Recognition of skills and as awards. Leather can be burned, stamped, tooled, inked, and painted to create special totems and awards.
2. Participation. Rewards campers with beads or totems with which they build practical keepsakes such as bead necklaces, den doodles, decorated paddles or staves, headbands, wristbands, or claw necklaces.
3. Boy Scout leather crafts and indian lore merit badges. Requirements Tips and Pointers in Camp Craft Guide.
4. Trading post supplies. Leather and related crafts provide profitable items that campers readily buy to make money for your camp and increase your budget.
5. Experience. Leather crafts are a great hands-on experience that fosters increased hand/eye coordination, self-confidence, and are something everyone can succeed at. Beck Leather and Crafts offers the widest selection of camp craft projects and supplies in Utah to construct useful and fun items. Most camps use basic stamping techniques to create 100's of designs. Create useful projects like knife cases, key rings, wristbands, belts wallets, dream catchers, wind charms, moccasins, mandella, and medallions.
6. Mountain man crafts and skills. Leather was the mainstay for the mountain man's life: trapping, trading, tanning, making clothes, building possibles bags, and constructing medicine pouches.
7. Camp patch. Want something different? Stylish leather shapes are deeply embossed with your own designs to provide an attractive and useful alternative to the old cloth or silk patch. Leather Patches can also combine elements to make great name tags.
8. Rainy day activity. Leather crafts are a super way to entertain and keep campers busy when camp cannot go on as planned due to weather.
9. Combination. You can combine program suggestions to add more flavor and spirit to camp life.
10. Keepsakes. Create keepsakes that hold treasured camp memories. Look at a special souvenir a couple of years after that special vacation, and the memories come back.