Description
Activities to look forward to:
-Build forts and fairy houses
-Learn about plants and animals
-Mysteries to solve, treasures to find
-Land art / nature crafts
-Free play and exploration
-Hiding and running and cooperative games
A few scholarships are available for BIPOC kids and families who need it.
If your kid gets educational assistance at school, contact us to see how we can make it work at forest school.
In every camp, we will do our core routines of expanding sensory awareness, wandering, befriending local plants and animals, mindful sit spot, storytelling, music, and thanksgiving. Morning and end circle are times for bonding, sharing and setting the tone of kindness and safety.
There will be lots of time for child-led play, following the emergent imagination of the kids at the moment. We will introduce activities like hide-go-seek, tag games, art and crafts, shallow water play, building forts and fairy houses, treasure hunts, and learning about local flora and fauna. We recognize the benefits of adventurous play yet take many measurements to ensure safety. We co-assess and co-manage risk with the children so that they learn to acknowledge, manage and overcome risks, in order to be exposed to the benefits of risk, rather than the hazards.
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