Aug. 17-19 Roots, Shoots, Flowers, and Fruits

For children ages 6-7

This year's camp will be held August 17th-19th, when summer's bounty is in full glory. It's a great time for children to explore and experience all 6 plant parts: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds!

They will dig in the garden to uncover the roots of several different plants, and compare them with one another. They will take bark rubbings and leaf samples from different trees to compare, and examine the wide variety of developing fruits in the nearby Demonstration Orchard.

Each day's Sensory Walk is a chance to get to know plants with all 5 of their senses!

Each day, children will add new coloring pages to their Nature Journal, where they can also write down their impressions and discoveries about the world of plants. Each day there will also be songs, stories, and nature crafts to make, such as a plant press, collection box or basket.

Gathering wild blackberries in the park, doing taste tests in our organic vegetable garden, picking a flower bouquet to take home, and planting seeds for fall garden crops will round out this 3-day adventure.

This camp is a great way to wind up summer vacation with a "plant parts party" extravaganza!