Summer Camps

Camps incorporate time spent in the garden, meadow & forest spaces, tending to our rabbits, nature exploration, herbal remedies, wild food preparation, story, song, craft and free play – all immersed in the light & wonder King Summer brings. Each week will focus on a different theme around the homestead.  Children will enjoy a magical, rhythmic, authentic connection to nature as we go through our days meeting fairy folk & nymphs, hearing the tales & songs of the land that the crickets, frogs and forest sprites have to share! 

*early bird pricing ends April 1st, 2024

 Early Years

ages 3-8  |  9am – 1pm

(tuesday – friday)

$220*/camp

 July 2-5th  |  Meadow & Forest

July 9-12th  |   Summergarden

July 23-26th  | Woven from Weeds

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Foraged & Folklore

ages 7-13  |  9am – 2pm

(monday – friday)

$300*/camp

(herbal remedies, herbal folklore & handcrafts)

July 15-19th

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Meadow & Forest Camp (ages 3-8)
All that the meadowland and forest have to offer – come explore our newly planted forest, gather wildflowers to make crowns with, look for meadow fairies, make blackberry ink, play along the seasonal creek, look for salamanders, paint with mud, hear the tales and songs of the land that the crickets, frogs and forest sprites have to share!
Summergarden (ages 3-8)
Celebrating all the wonder, freshness, beauty and hints of magic found in the summer garden. Children will spend the majority of our days playing, exploring and getting good and dirty as we tend to the garden happenings, searching for garden gnomes & water nymphs, planting seeds, watering, crafting mason bee homes, playing with the rabbits, and harvesting all the wonderful growing things found in and out of the garden. We use organic permaculture practices to create a sustainable ecosystem for all.
Enjoy fresh picked blueberries and tomatoes, make a cozy nest in the bean tipi, craft beautiful mud pies & cakes and cover yourself in mud while you’re at it, harvest greens and build forts with the rabbits, learn to care for our pollinators, build with cob, feast on dandelion fritters, blackberry fairy cheese and herbal sun tea lemonade each day.
Woven from Weeds (ages 3-8)
All of nature is beauty, art, creativity and expression
Come spend an entire week creating art & crafts from items in nature! Children will have multiple opportunities to create living art throughout the farm from flower mandalas, adding onto the nature loom and painting with stones and mineral pigments. We will also do several  crafts and handworks such as visiting the dye garden and dyeing with plants, crafting acorn cap dolls, ivy basket weaving, claywork, and more. All crafts and activites will be simplistic in nature and free form just as Mother Earth intended.
Foraged & Folklore (ages 7-12)

A camp offering just for our older kids! Foraged & Folklore shares a week full of nature immersion & fun with a focus on entering the world of herbalism, herb fairies and storytelling. We will spend our week on a seasonally guided herb foraged on the farm by the children in a gently guided ethical & mindful way. Tying in crafting remedies, recipies, creations and handcrafting herbal puppets as we hear the folklore and stories of how this herb came to be gifted to us all. At the end of the week we will perform a short herbal puppet show of the folklore tale to younger siblings, parents and eachother!

Children will go home with their herbal creations & handcrafts and a beautiful introduction to the deep relationship offered by the medicinal plants around us in our wild and not so wild spaces. This is a great camp for children interested in plants, storytelling, magic and gratitude for the Earth!

 

 

Both weeks will differ in crafting, creativity and overlapping theme but are equally fun!

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Camp Details:

We ask that parents please apply sunscreen to their child before arriving. We gather under the trees for lunch and will spend the majority of the day in the sun or forest. Plan to send your child in covered shoes that can get wet and clothes that dry quickly. We will be playing with mud or water throughout the week to keep cool. Please do not send your child in open sandals or flip flops as we have many brambles and thistle across the farm.  Children will need a backpack that can fit the following items: 

  • -water bottle (with a closed lid that will not leak when on it’s side)
  • -simple change of clothes
  • -sunhat

We provide a small, fresh allergy friendly snack each day, partially gathered from our garden on the farm. Please, also make sure to pack your child a nourishing lunch for the day.

After Care is available until 5pm for $10 / hour per child and $5 per sibling. Camps are available to all who truly wish to participate regardless of financial situation. Please contact Kate directly at kate@meadowcreekforestschool for discount information and availability.

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We Acknowledge This Land

Meadow Creek Community Farm acknowledges the land we now steward is the ancestral homeland of Coast Salish and Chinookan peoples including the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Grand Ronde, Cowlitz and more. We acknowledge their stewardship of the land and waters, and seek to align ourselves with their living example and values for all future generations.

LIVING MEADOW CREEK

HOCKINSON, WA 98606

360-609-9871

KATE@MEADOWCREEKFORESTSCHOOL.COM

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