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Campers Flock to Plymouth for ‘Adventures in Cardboard’

4:28 PM | Thursday, July 8, 2021

At French Regional Park in Plymouth, recreation is usually the big draw.

But for dozens of kids, they come to the park five days a week for a sense of adventure and camaraderie centered entirely around cardboard.

“We have many characters about, there may be a few ‘assassins’ around. You never know who may be there,” said Eric Uttormark, a staff member from Adventures in Cardboard summer camp.

Uttormark is a former camp participant who now goes by the name of ‘Thor’ while he’s on the job.

“I am the one representative from Asgard, until we get more,” he said.

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Eric Uttormark (a.k.a. Thor) is one of the staff members with Adventures in Cardboard.

Adventures in Cardboard is a summer day camp that’s described as a mixture of capture the flag and Dungeons and Dragons.

“It may seem like a bit of chaos,” Uttormark said of the camp. “But overall, it’s organized chaos, I assure you.”

At this Plymouth campsite, the castle, the armor and all of the weapons are made entirely from cardboard.

“So big swords, big axes, kind of cartoon-ish sort of shapes,” said Ramon Cordes, a coordinator from Adventures in Cardboard. “So it’s almost, the more intimidating the better.”

Yet while the weapons are intimidating, the camp itself is anything but. It’s a place where the kids can exercise their creativity, and basically just be kids.

“Originally, my parents signed me up as a camper, and I was very hesitant at first,” Uttormark said. “Didn’t really want to do it. I was 16 at the time, not very happy. But I came here and I loved it. It was absolutely amazing.”

Amazing because of the sense of community that the campers build with one another as they let their imaginations run wild.

“Here’s a blank canvass, let’s see what you can do,” Cordes said.

Adventures in Cardboard has sites set up at four different parks throughout the metro area. Tuition is $425 for the week.

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A camper shows off her cardboard dragon mask.

Delane Cleveland, reporting

Plymouth

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