August 27, 2024
Clover Photo Gallery
This week campers practiced their pollinator skills, built forts, splashed in the creek and river, relaxed during storytelling, explored the forests, and of course, played some amazing Schoolhouse games!
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August 27, 2024
Unexplored Brumley Photo Gallery
In this final epic week of summer, we explored Brumley Nature Preserve far and wide for new basecamps, water spots, and even old ruins! We caught some hard to find critters along the way like a rough green tree snake, and enjoyed going to the Deep Water Spot a lot! We were especially silly during […]
August 27, 2024
Bobcat Photo Gallery
What a great last week of the summer together! While we didn’t find any bobcats this week, we did find other fun forest critters like box turtles, butterflies, clams, and crawdads at water time. We loved swinging on vines at Viney Village, and running down our favorite hill on the way to the Boneyard basecamp. […]
August 27, 2024
Backpacking 101: Bowdrills, Bandages, and Bears Photo Gallery
This week was truly an adventure! We not only learned wildlife skills like bear encounters, basic first aid, and how to best pack our backpacks, but we also got to throw tomahawks and atl atls (a traditional form of spear throwing)! We made primitive fire with a bowdrill or quartz and steel, and we roasted […]
August 27, 2024
Color Color Everywhere! Photo Gallery
This week we searched the forest far and wide for all the colors we could find! We searched for rocks of all colors, mushrooms of every color, and leaves – and we actually found some of every color (believe it or not!) We loved games like Monster Mash, Camouflage, and Rainbow Tag, and had lots […]
August 27, 2024
Wildflower Photo Gallery
This week, the flowers were really in bloom for us! We used some to make wildflower bookmarks and to decorate our fairy houses this week. We loved our favorite Schoolhouse games like Sock Wars, Kick the Can, and Sashamambasnake! We have so much fun making all sorts of things in the creek from mud balls […]