DIXON, Iowa -
The movie, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is already record-breaking. Tusday night's midnight debut was a little late for younger Harry Potter fans forced to wait to Wednesday to see it.
In Dixon, Iowa kids line up to see the leopard frogs in their teacher's hands.
"Cool, those things are awesome." "And these guys can get a lot bigger then they are."
At this week long overnight camp part of their adventures will be searching for tadpoles, dragon flys, and frogs.
"You can see he's head he's kind of sitting like that isnt' that cool."
And they are searching for something else.
One of the campers explains, "Well, there's some creature in the woods that stole our dragon egg and we're trying to figure out what it is."
Another camper says, "We saw it in the window while we were eating. Some of the younger kids saw it right over there during music class."
This may look like any other camp with songs. But this is Frogwarts, sounds like Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school. And these kids are wizards.
One wizard says, "Well, I am Deltor which based off of my real name I only changed one letter."
These are wizards who make bracelets out of willows and use the remnants as wands. And have house names.
Another wizard Ajax says, "This is Selkieclan and there is Morningstar then somewhere down there is Dragonwing."
The headmistress Professor Bumblebone says this 7 year old camp is about teaching character using the themes from the popular book and movie series.
She says, "The trick is to find the magic within yourself to keep it strong and then the real magic is to find the magic in somebody else."
The wizards who come back every year say it lots of fun.
Wizard Emmeline Spellman says, "That your imagination can go anywhere you don't have any limits."
This week they'll be searching for a creature at camp. And they'll see a movie that many already know how it will end based on the book, but won't spoil the mystery of the Half Blood Prince for us.
Deltor says, "I didn't want to give it away for anybody who hasn't read the book or seen the movie."
The Frogwarts camp will see the movie Wednesday night and Thursday they plan to talk about what they saw, including some of the darker scenes and how it's different then the book.
Frogwarts is a camp organized by the Great Midwestern Educational theater company out of Dubuque for 7 to 15 year olds. 98% of kids come back each year until they reach 15 years old.
www.Frogwarts.org
In Dixon, Iowa kids line up to see the leopard frogs in their teacher's hands.
"Cool, those things are awesome." "And these guys can get a lot bigger then they are."
At this week long overnight camp part of their adventures will be searching for tadpoles, dragon flys, and frogs.
"You can see he's head he's kind of sitting like that isnt' that cool."
And they are searching for something else.
One of the campers explains, "Well, there's some creature in the woods that stole our dragon egg and we're trying to figure out what it is."
Another camper says, "We saw it in the window while we were eating. Some of the younger kids saw it right over there during music class."
This may look like any other camp with songs. But this is Frogwarts, sounds like Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school. And these kids are wizards.
One wizard says, "Well, I am Deltor which based off of my real name I only changed one letter."
These are wizards who make bracelets out of willows and use the remnants as wands. And have house names.
Another wizard Ajax says, "This is Selkieclan and there is Morningstar then somewhere down there is Dragonwing."
The headmistress Professor Bumblebone says this 7 year old camp is about teaching character using the themes from the popular book and movie series.
She says, "The trick is to find the magic within yourself to keep it strong and then the real magic is to find the magic in somebody else."
The wizards who come back every year say it lots of fun.
Wizard Emmeline Spellman says, "That your imagination can go anywhere you don't have any limits."
This week they'll be searching for a creature at camp. And they'll see a movie that many already know how it will end based on the book, but won't spoil the mystery of the Half Blood Prince for us.
Deltor says, "I didn't want to give it away for anybody who hasn't read the book or seen the movie."
The Frogwarts camp will see the movie Wednesday night and Thursday they plan to talk about what they saw, including some of the darker scenes and how it's different then the book.
Frogwarts is a camp organized by the Great Midwestern Educational theater company out of Dubuque for 7 to 15 year olds. 98% of kids come back each year until they reach 15 years old.
www.Frogwarts.org
