For children ages 4-5Late summer is a time when hundreds of wildflowers and cultivated plants are ending their flowering time, and ripening their fruits and seeds. It's a great time for children to explore and experience the second half of the plant cycle: flowers, fruits, and seeds!
They will gather flower bouquets, examine the wide variety of developing fruits in the nearby Demonstration Orchard, and plant new seeds for the fall vegetable garden.
Each day's Sensory Walk is a chance to get to know these plant parts with all 5 of their senses!
Each day, children will add new coloring pages to their Nature Journal, where they can also draw their daily discoveries. Each day there will also be songs, stories, and nature crafts to make, such as a treasure box, seed face, or garden crown.
Gathering wild blackberries in the park, making flower "burritos" in our organic vegetable garden, and collecting seeds to take home are other parts of what makes this 3-day adventure special.
This camp is a great way to wind up summer vacation with a "garden harvest party"!
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