Helping Hands

A growing wall of handprints recording everyone who tends this land.

A record that grows with you

• Kids paint a handprint with their name and how they helped. Next year they add a new print outlined around the old one, showing how they have grown.
• Work-stay adults (a month or more) get a bigger hand and may name a tree, or write a story for one already named, dedicated to someone in their life.
• Everything earns appreciation from the hosts and counts toward redwood tokens.

Color key:
Kid helper   Work-stay trade   Hands-on labor   Camp gardening

Location plan

First choice: the clubhouse. Alternates: the back of the main building or the barn. When the wall fills, it continues on the bridge and other spots around camp.

Supplies, parents, protection

• Low-VOC kid-safe paint, foam brushes, trays, wash station, fine paint pen, drop cloths.
• For parents: non-toxic paint, first name and last initial only, photos optional.
• Protect it: clear weatherproof top-coat, site it under an eave, leave blank zones for next year, photograph the wall annually.