Planned Highland-style games were designed to test ''strength, creativity, teamwork and skill''. There will be prizes for the winners of a ''gigantic'' tug of war, hammer toss, caber toss and gumboot throw in various age and gender groups.
There would also be a piping in of the haggis, a reading of Robbie Burns' poem Tam o'Shanter and a celebration of World Whisky Day with a competitive tasting of the finest whiskies from New Zealand and Scotland.
Free workshops were also planned - they would include ''Top Ten Tips for Tiny Houses'', by Jim Nicol of Queenstown's Modbox Ltd, which would feature a tiny house on wheels; ''How to Find Your Roots'', by Edith McKay, of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, who would explore the Scottish roots in the area; and a children's rock painting workshop while parents went on a ''sneak peak'' tour of Camp Glenorchy, featuring the nearly-complete Scheelite Campfire Shelter designed and built by Glenorchy artist Dan Kelly; the South Island's largest solar garden; and braided river stone mosaic pathways designed and built by landscape artist Jeffrey Bale.
Visitors would also get a peek at the new cabins and the early stages of the Commons Building.
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