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Half-Day Summer Camps

Since 1995, our summer day camps have offered creative play, exploration and adventure, where your kids work together in small groups gaining nature awareness and experiential knowledge of plants, mammals, tracking, birds and survival skills. Our highly trained instructors guide students into experiences that nurture their connection to the earth and allow them to feel at home in nature.

This year, in response to abundant feedback, we are expanding our age-range with new camps for 4 to 6 year olds! For the past 8 years we have run a nature preschool for ages 4-6 in Duvall, WA. Our new Half-Day Camps bring the best of what we've learned to a summer day camp format! Our most experienced staff have crafted an experience that will bring young nature-lovers of all experience-levels into safe adventures and leave them with stories they will remember for a long time.

However, fun and adventure are only part of the story. Our 1:6 staff-student ratio allows our instructors at our summer half-day camps to facilitate the development of tangible and intangible skills like teamwork and communication; thankfulness; awareness; patience; common sense; self confidence; problem-solving; and respect for self, each other and nature.

These skills are woven invisibly into each of our summer half-day camps through storytelling, active questioning and engaging nature activities. For example, campers might learn patience through the need to get close to wildlife, or teamwork and communication through the need to quickly build a group shelter. Our focus is on helping children to build skills that will serve them for a lifetime.

We look forward to sharing nature adventures with your kids at a park near you this summer!

Also see:

• Frequently Asked Camp Questions
• Summer Day Camps (ages 6-12)
• Advanced Day Camps (ages 10-12)
• Overnight Camps (ages 11-14)
• Teen Expeditions (ages 13-18)
• and 2012 Summer Camps Flyer (PDF format)

• Our FUN Guarantee
• Benefits of Attending
• What Kids Learn at Camp
• Testimonials
• Meet Our Staff

Read more about Summer Camp Locations near you and use the map below to find driving directions.

What do you remember about nature from your childhood?

Likely it's about a special place that you would go and share with friends - making forts, climbing trees and more - all while getting muddy and wet, in all kinds of weather.

We bring these kinds of adventures to kids today, along with instructors who know a lot about nature and use great skill in reconnecting kids with the wonder of the world around them. We do this through stories, hands-on skills like fire-making, responsible introduction of wild edible plants and their poisonous look-alikes, as well as things most adults don't even know like the arts of wildlife tracking and bird language interpretation.

All of these skills are doorways into exploration of nature, and ultimately ourselves. The same confidence that kids acquire in learning about the hazards of nature and how to work with them translates into the rest of their lives and how they approach healthy risk-taking and learning in general. We look forward to the day when these kind of nature adventures are happening again spontaneously for kids in neighborhoods everywhere!