Children can make rocks to go around it by covering boxes with paper bag paper and sponge painting them black. Children can also make stuffy fish to put in the pond. Add magnets to them and the children can fish for them using poles attached to magnets on a string. Also add ducks to the pond by coping duck pattern and attaching them to coffee cans covered with green paper. For a science activity with this activity have children predict and experiment with different magnets to see which one is the strongest to put on their fish.
Children can graph their answers to see which magnet is the strongest.
Allow the children to have nap time in sleeping bags around a pretend campfire. We did a camping theme throughout the pre-school. I had a Dad come in and dig a pit out side, he got a little extravagant with the pit, but a simple whole in the ground with large rocks or cement blocks work well too. Also, for Language, let each child tell you what they would take on a camping trip, and make it into a book, with the children illustrating the pages. In the dramatic play area, put rolled up newspapers that are painted brown for campfire logs along with colored tissue paper for campfire.