Nature Summer Camp
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 08/12/2016
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The quality of the experience is being in a truly natural and magical setting, receiving dedicated attention, and participating in diverse activities.
Green Earth Summer Camp feels much like an old fashioned neighborhood of kids (ages 3-8). This is a lost experience for many children in this generation. The younger children look up to the older ones, and the older children love to help the little ones and show off their knowledge and skills.
We provide the magical space for your children to enjoy summer with a group of children creating their own spectacular visions of play ideas and learning from the myriads of art, nature, and environmental science projects. Green Earth summer camp has the freedom to have a diverse and authentic summer experience being a home-based summer camp program with a smaller group of fourteen children with two teachers and additional camp counselors per day.
Our main focus at summer camp is to spend a lot of time outside enjoying nature under the shade of our two beloved maples, having good ‘ol summer fun. The children plant and care for the gardens of flowers, herbs, berries, and vegetables. We take trips to the fantastic Hiawatha Park to picnic, play on the playground, and run around the grass and trees. The children learn from and enjoy the natural surroundings brimming with wildlife and all with the backdrop of the beautiful lake.
At Green Earth Summer Camp, we separate the weeks into the four elements to focus on these mediums in art, play, and education. After all, the four elements
encompass all possibilities for projects. We repeat the elemental weeks, as there are more than four weeks of summer camp, but introduce new activities.
Imagine your child making: a painted, cardboard box castle, building a teepee or lean-to, cooking oat bars in a solar oven, building a kite from scratch, harvesting from the gardens and learning about herbs and vegetables, working in the woodshop, making mosaics and sculpting with clay, playing in the water, sand, and, mud, and seeing bald eagles and loons while playing tag on the grass at the lake.
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