Summer camp is more than games, sports and water fun. In Immokalee the campers also learned to cook a traditional Seminole meal in the cooking chickee June 13.

The day was plenty hot without the large fire raging under the grate in the chickee, but the kids endured the heat and successfully made a meal of spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, corn, green beans and fry bread. Boys gathered wood, girls made the fry bread and everyone enjoyed the meal together.

Learning to make fry bread dough can be an adventure but with help from Juanita Martinez, these girls figure it out. (Beverly Bidney photo)

Teamwork makes the work in the cooking chickee easier as campers and culture employees make an enormous amount of macaroni and cheese. Markayla Cummings, Ashley Faz, Cecilia Garcia, America Ramirez and Mary Jane Martinez are pictured. (Beverly Bidney photo)

Jazmine Garcia, Arianna Rodriguez, Ayanna Villa and Mary Jane Martinez share the hose as they wash fry bread dough off their hands. (Beverly Bidney photo)

Juanita Martinez, Immokalee culture site coordinator, shows Arianna Rodriguez how to shake excess fry bread dough off her hands during the culture lunch June 13. (Beverly Bidney photo)

Cecilia Garcia and America Ramirez tend the fire in the cooking chickee during a summer camp cooking class June 13. (Beverly Bidney photo)