After the success of last years Youth and Family Zombie Survival Weekender Event we will be running another Youth and Family event during this years summer holidays:
When:
6th-7th August 2016, from 10am Saturday 6th August. Till around 3pm Sunday 7th August.
Location:
Zombie Survival Weekender HQ: Egwysilian Mountain, 10miles north of Cardiff.
Adults and Children Learning together:
This is a unique opportunity for you and your children to learn and teach together in a structured exciting fun environment. Learning and sharing real useful survival skills, people from all backgrounds, abilities and experience are able to participate. You’ll be surprised what comes naturally to children and what we take for granted that they already know how to do, and you’ll surprise yourself and your children with what you know, and can teach them.
Children and Facing Fear:
A lot of thought has gone into the psychology of fear and the development and confrontation of phobias. A section of the event is devoted to exploring and discussing, what makes us scared; what are we afraid of? What is real and what is irrational fear, overcoming our fears and anxiety and feeling safe. At no point throughout the event will your child feel out of control or ‘too’ scared they will always have you with them, and the game is a milder child-friendly version of the adults full-on game.
Activities:
- Learning real bushcraft and survival techniques and skills that would help you and your young ones to stay alive in a genuine survival situation.
- Team building and inter-team challenges and games.
- Camping, Bonfire, BBQ.
- Fun child-friendly, evening/nights zombie avoidance game.
- Discussion and debate, survival theory.
- Award ceremony, litter sweep and pack-down.
Here are some pictures from last years inaugural Youth and Family Event, it went really well despite the rain, everyone, parent and child, had great fun and the kids didn’t want to stop playing the game in the night (they actually ended up playing later than some adult games they were so enthusiastic!)
Benefits:
- Confidence building and leadership development.
- Listening and speaking, concentration and independence.
- Problem solving and critical thinking.
- Focused learning with children and adults working together.
- An exciting memorable experience for the whole family.
Do you think your child is too young or would be too scared for an event like this? Then THISÂ REALLY IS THE EVENT FOR YOU! We explore the ideas of what makes us scared and facing our fears, this event will help your child be more confident in themselves, more outgoing and less scared.
Times:
The event is around 30 hours long, with everyone arriving at the site for 10am on the Saturday morning, we start with the safety briefing registration and splitting into groups.
We then spend the Saturday learning survival skills, bushcraft, first aid, self defense, camp craft etc. this learning experience will be broken up with exciting inter-team challenges and games and regular breaks.
In the evening we have a bonfire, BBQ (bring your own food to cook over the fire, or grab dinner at the on site pub restaurant) and relax around the fire.
We then have an exciting youth friendly version of our usual nights game, the game has been specially tailored for our young participants, so that the horror is turned down but the fun and excitement is still there, everyone gets a chance to be human survivors trying to solve missions, challenges and games without being caught by zombies. If you get caught by a zombie then you make your way to the zombification tent get turned into a zombie and then go out and try and catch the survivors…
Standard event adult games can go on as late as 3am but we will be tailoring the game so that the childrens group will be finished at around 9pm (once its dark) and the youth group will be finished at 10.30-11pm.
People can either sit around the fire or go back to their tents for the night, tired and satisfied.
The next day we have breakfast (bring your own food, or, if arranged beforehand, breakfast may be available at the on site pub) and then we play more games and have talks and child focused debate on survival as a group. We then have an awards ceremony, litter sweep, pack down and go home.
Ages:
This event is open to children of all ages and abilities and their parent/guardian/carers. Groups will be split into rough age groups and the activities will be appropriate to each group.
0-3years will be introduced to camping and outdoors on the most basic level for our infants group.
3-10years will be in our Childrens Group and will be shown various exciting survival skills that they will get hands on practice and experience themselves to try, and full on exciting activites and games, challenges, missions, quests and riddles.
10-17years, the Youth Group, will be taking these skills further and teaching each other their own skills they have prepared as homework before the event. They will get to show their skills and survival kits and will get to enjoy the exciting nights game for longer too.
Price:
- Family tickets (2x adults, 2x youth/children) – £200
- Adult and Child Ticket                   – £110
- Extra Adult Ticket                      – £75
- Extra Child Ticket                      – £35
- Under 3 free.
(Each child must be accompanied by an adult 1:1 If you do not have enough adults to cover your children one-to-one or have more adults than children please get in contact and we’ll endeavour to bridge this gap with buddy systems, this is to ensure the safety and well being of all participants.)
Want to see how last years Youth and Family event went? Here is a great review by mum blogger PinkOddy:Â http://pinkoddy.co.uk/blog/2015/09/02/youth-and-family-zombie-survival-event/
Here is a gallery of some of the children and parents phobias, the homework that the kids are asked to do before the event to start exploring the ideas of fear and what we are afraid of, what is real what is rational etc.
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- Zombies (last years winning picture)
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- I will suffocate and not be able to get out.
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- ? Cthulhu?
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- ‘Crystal Dragons’
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- Wasps and injections
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- Clowns
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- The Dark
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- Dolphins
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- Failure
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- Snakes
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- Plane crashing
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- Belle the dog!
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- Spiders
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- Cheetahs (because they run fast)
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- Something happening to my kids when they are away from home.
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- Sharks
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- Parasites
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- Heights.
To discuss this years Youth and Family Event, to buy tickets for the event, to talk about ZSW, me, safety & insurance, the games, suitability and any other issues or questions you might have please don’t hesitate to ask: info@zombiesw.co.uk
(Private Youth Events are also available minimum of 20 participants per event.)
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