Music Camp

Tonight kicked off a week long music camp that our church, Crossroads Presbyterian, puts on every year. I'm helping out with the camp as a group leader for the 7 and 8 year olds. Personally, I think "group leader" is the sweetest volunteer job, because you basically just get to hang out with kids the whole time and lead them from one station to the next. I've done lots of vbs type things before, but never a music camp. Tonight we learned about the Hammer Dulcimer (which is an awesome instrument, by the way,) played on drums made from large Lowe's buckets, and sang together as a choir. The kids loved it. My favorite moment was an interaction I had with one of my little charges, Morgan:

Morgan: "I like to sing sometimes when I'm alone. I get nervous when I sing in front of people....I was in a play."

Me: "Did you sing in your play?"

Morgan: "Yes. I had to kiss a baby doll and I got embarrassed."

Me: "And that is why you get nervous when you sing?"

Morgan: "Yes."

Me: "I bet you have a beautiful voice, though, and that it makes people happy when you sing."

Morgan: "I do have a beautiful voice. That's why I like to sing by myself. I always sound great when I sing by myself."

So true, Morgan. I also sound awesome when I sing by myself.