Please refer to the online registration system to determine if there is space available in a specific camp. Please sign up on the wait list if a camp you are interested in is ful. Plans change and spaces often open up as the summer progress. We will use our wait lists to fill available spaces.
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Minnows (ages 3-4)
SNEAK & SOAR: July 1-5*, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Learn all about how wild animals move and groove. Sprout a fox tail or grow bird wings as you play hide and seek in the shady tunnels, dens, and nooks of the Learnscape. Get your face painted and act like animals! *No program Thursday, July 4th
STONE SOUP: July 15-19, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Discover the many flavors of the garden as we gather ingredients for our very own Stone Soup. Sing harvest songs, play garden games, and splash in the Learnscape sprinklers. Make mud pies and sand cakes for pretend food fun!
WIGGLERS & WADDLERS: July 29-August 2, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Quack, chomp, ribbit! Check out who’s wiggling and waddling in and near the water in Alton Baker Park. Tell water tales and dance with a costumed Kinder Critter!
SPLASH & SPLATTER: August 19-23, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Explore the wonderful world of water. Befriend aquatic bugs, make splatter art, dance in the Learnscape sprinklers, and play Poohsticks at the canoe canal!
Dragonflies (ages 4-5)
MAGIC FOREST: June 24-28, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Wander woodland trails, build forts in the Magic Forest, and get to know the trees in our Learnscape and park. Tell tall tree tales, create fairy houses, and make wood gnomes from forest finds.
EARTH MOVERS: July 1-5*, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Move your body like the rocking and rolling Earth as we explore in the park and Learnscape! Whirl like the wind, grow tall like trees, and roll like the river as you learn kid-friendly yoga moves. Make music on our Star Stage and create instruments with gifts from the Earth – stone, wood, water, and more. *Combine this camp with free lunch care and FURRY FRIENDS in the afternoon for an all-day experience! *No program Thursday, July 4th
FURRY FRIENDS: July 1-5*, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Beavers and squirrels and moles, oh my! Learn about park mammals as you hunt for hidden homes, search for tracks and traces, and check out real animal pelt and bone specimens. Tell critter tales, create wild animal art, and meet a costumed Kinder Critter! *Combine this camp with EARTH MOVERS in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience! *No program Thursday, July 4th
BIRDING BUDDIES: July 8-12, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Get to know the birds that fly in the sky nearby. Check out real feathers and nests, explore bird habitats, discover how beaks work, and hear fine-feathered stories. Sing like a bird, build nests, and visit with our Kinder Critter, Ollie Owl.
CAMO CRITTERS: July 15-19, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Explore our Learnscape and the park in search of concealed creatures – from birds to bugs. Play hide and seek games, go on a hidden treasures hike, and create camouflage costumes.
BUSY BUILDERS: July 22-26, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Make nests, weave webs, and build beaver dams in this fun camp all about creative critters. Play with giant blocks in our Nature’s Builders Playspace, learn about earth-friendly human homes, and build your own mini shelters using lessons learned from animals! *Combine this camp with free lunch care and PLAYFUL POLLINATORS in the afternoon for an all-day experience!
PLAYFUL POLLINATORS: July 22-26, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Discover how plants and animals communicate and cooperate in nature. Catch insects in the meadow and taste goodies from our gardens. Learn how bees make honey and meet our Kinder Critter, Bella Butterfly! *Combine this camp with BUSY BUILDERS in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience!
PUPPETS, PAINTS, & PAWPRINTS: July 29-August 2, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Transform yourself into an animal and go nature exploring. Make puppets, pawprints, and Earth art in our outdoor classroom. Get your face painted and meet a costumed Kinder Critter!
BOUNTY OF BUGS: August 5-9, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Explore ponds, look under logs, and swing nets through grass as you hunt for bugs of all shapes, sizes, and colors! Learn about insects and do the Dragonfly Dance!
TEDDY BEAR PICNIC: August 12-16, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Look for signs of animals in the park and find a new picnic snack spot every day! Harvest goodies in the garden, make sun tea, and eat berries like bears. On the last day of camp, bring your favorite stuffy for a special Learnscape picnic feast! *Combine this camp with free lunch care and MAKE A SPLASH in the afternoon for an all-day experience!
MAKE A SPLASH: August 12-16, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Discover the wonders of water! Make drip sandcastles in our sandbox and mud pies in our Dig Inn Dirt Box. Experiment with our model watershed, play Poohsticks at the canoe canal, and dance in the Learnscape sprinklers. *Combine this camp with TEDDY BEAR PICNIC in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience!
BUDS & BERRIES: August 19-23, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Celebrate summer in our Learnscape Garden. Make flower salads, go on berry hunts, and decorate mud pies. Create garden chimes, sing sunshine songs, and hunt for friendly insects hiding in the veggies!
EARTHY ARTISTS: August 26-30, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Dig into nature’s treasure chest as we create finger paints from flowers, Earth Art from our stones and cones collection, and critters from cool stuff we find in the forest. Enjoy edible art made from Learnscape Garden goodies!
Tree Frogs (ages 6-8)
RIVER, RHYTHM, & RHYME: June 24-28, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Get down to the beat of nature in this camp with an ear for the Earth! Whirl like water and get inspired by the river to rap rhymes on our Star Stage. Create instruments from recycled stuff, listen for bird songs, and go with the flow as you canoe with your friends down the canal with Northwest Canoe Tours! *Combine this camp with free lunch care and CAMP TALKING STONES in the afternoon for an all-day experience!
CAMP TALKING STONES: June 24-28, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Learn about the life and lore of our area’s native people, the Kalapuya. Hike to the Talking Stones, learn Kalapuya words, play Kalapuya games, and hear Kalapuya tales. *Combine this camp with RIVER, RHYTHM, & RHYME in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience!
TRAILS & TALES at HENDRICKS PARK: July 1-5*, 9am-4pm, Hendricks Park: Explore this park from bottom to top with an eye for tracks and traces. Learn from layers in land and discover stories in stones! Create treasure hunts, find new park trails, and enjoy tales under the tall trees. *No program Thursday, July 4th
FOREST FORTS: July 8-12, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Hunt for animal homes in the park and get inspired to build your own special shelters. Create giant block towers in the Nature’s Builder’s Playspace and build forts in the Magic Forest. Design crazy castles from recycled cardboard boxes and mini build gnome homes in the Learnscape. Climb a tall tree with experts from Tree Climbing Eugene!
NATURE DETECTIVES at MOUNT PISGAH: July 8-12, 9am-4pm, Mount Pisgah Arboretum: Go on a scavenger hunt each day as you hike in the park – and create a treasure map of natural wonders to share with your family! Use magnifiers to look at nature mysteries up close and binoculars to check out what’s happening in the distance. Visit Mount Pisgah’s fascinating outdoor natural history exhibits and cool off in the Willamette River’s Coast Fork.
WILD OUTSIDE: July 15-19, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Spend the week pretending to be a different wild animal every day! Run like a rabbit, build like a beaver, and sneak like a snake. Check out real bones, feathers, and furs. Sing silly animal songs and play fun animal games.
AVENTURA DE JARDIN EN ESPAÑOL: July 15-19, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Explore and play in our Learnscape Garden in this bilingual camp and learn the Spanish words for what you discover. Hunt for garden goodies and bake with our solar oven. Listen to bilingual stories in Hazelnut Hollow and make human-powered bike smoothies! *Combine this camp with free lunch care and AVENTURA DE PARQUE in the afternoon for an all-day experience!
AVENTURA DE PARQUE EN ESPAÑOL: July 15-19, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Explore the park’s meadows, forests, and waterways in this bilingual camp and learn the Spanish words for what you discover! Go pond dipping, find secret trails, and canoe in the canal with Northwest Canoe Tours! *Combine this camp with AVENTURA DE JARDIN in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience!
HAZELNUT HOLLOW: July 22-26, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: All the (outdoor) world is a stage in this fun nature theater camp! Spend the week acting like animals, singing songs, and creating mini-shows inspired by our favorite nature tales. Make masks from recycled and natural materials and perform in the Hazelnut Hollow Theater and on the Star Stage! *Combine this camp with BUG SAFARI in the afternoon for an all-day experience!
BUG SAFARI: July 22-26, 1pm-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Crickets and beetles and flies, oh my! Get to know insects as we catch them in the forests, meadows, and ponds. Use nets, screens, and magnifiers to find and identify hidden creatures in the compost, soil, and gardens. Create your own cool critter out of recycled materials. *Combine this camp with HAZELNUT HOLLOW in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience!
WEB WEAVERS at HENDRICKS PARK: July 29-August 2, 9am-4pm, Hendricks Park: Diversity is woven into the web of life! Wander park trails and discover the amazing variety of living things that make a forest strong, from the tallest trees to the tiniest fungi. Weave your own community as you build together with everything from sticks to stones, clay to cones. Enjoy creative exploration and expression through cooperative games and kid-friendly yoga.
ROCK-IT!: August 5-9, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Look at the world through a geologist’s eyes as you visit Fossil Beach, do the Rock Cycle Rap, and learn the story of your own special stone. Create volcanoes, splash in the Willamette, and play Mountain Melt. Cool off with a tube float down the canoe canal!
CAMP COOKOFF: August 12-16, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: End the summer with a bunch of munchin’! Bake in a solar oven, create garden recipes, and blend bike smoothies. Go on a who’s-eating-who hike and create silly veggie art!
WATER WORKS: August 19-23, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Wade into the world of water in this wet and wild camp! Make drip sandcastles and experiment with watershed models. Go on a critter quest to discover who lives in and near the park’s waterways. Hike by the Willamette River, play Mountain Melt, and paddle up the canal in a canoe with Northwest Canoe Tours!
UP IN THE AIR: August 26-30, 9am-12pm, Alton Baker Park: Discover what’s up in the air as you explore the park to find things that fly, glide, float, and fall. Use binoculars to scan the sky for birds, catch bugs in the grass, create mini-parachutes out of recycled materials, and make toys that fly. Enjoy a field trip to the Eugene Science Center Planetarium! *Combine this camp with free lunch care and SCALES, TAILS, & SAILS in the afternoon for an all-day experience!
SCALES, TAILS, & SAILS: August 26-30, 1-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Discover how aquatic critters make waves in the water. Learn how boats float and build creations that sail in the water and soar on the wind. Search for live reptiles and amphibians in the park and cool off in the canal! *Combine this camp with UP IN THE AIR in the morning and free lunch care for an all-day experience!
Blue Herons (ages 8-11)
LOOK OUT!: June 24-28, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: It’s a wild world out there! Discover the awesome ways that plants and animals protect themselves and their young, hunt their prey, and defend their territory. Find armored bugs, learn to identify perilous plants, and search for camouflaged critters as you wander the trails and watch the waterways of Alton Baker Park. Explore the farthest reaches of the park and cool off in the canoe canal!
CYCLE FORCE: July 1-5*, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Learn all about how bikes go as we explore Willamette River bike trails. Create bike part art, learn basic bike maintenance skills, and use human power to make bike smoothies! *You must be able to cycle up to ten miles per day, and have or borrow a helmet that fits, a bike lock, and a working bike for this camp. Bike/lock/helmet loans may be possible on advance request. *No program Thursday, July 4th
NATURE KNOW-HOW at MOUNT PISGAH: July 8-12, 9am-4pm, Mount Pisgah Arboretum: Wayfinding and water safety, knives and knots, maps and mountain climbing. You’ll learn about all these skills and more as we hike in the hills, play in the Coast Fork of the Willamette, and explore the hidden corners of this amazing park. Sturdy shoes and a sense of adventure essential!
TREE TREKKERS: July 15-19, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Discover who’s hiding, hooting, and hovering in the forest as you explore our Willamette riverside parks by bike. Find our area’s coolest trees — the towering, twisted, wide, and weird! Look for treetop heron, osprey, and eagle nests as you wander in the woods along the river. Visit Tall Trees Park, the Eastgate Woodlands, Skinner Butte, and more. Climb a tall tree with experts from Tree Climbing Eugene! *You must be able to cycle up to ten miles per day, and have or borrow a helmet that fits, a bike lock, and a working bike for this camp. Bike/lock/helmet loans may be possible on advance request.
WILD WAVES ‘N WHEELS: July 22-26, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Cycle the Willamette River bike paths in search of the best wading, rock-stacking, and stone-skipping spots. Learn about the river’s amazing journey from the mountains to the sea and enjoy your own cool ride as you paddle down the canal in a canoe with Northwest Canoe Tours! *You must be able to cycle up to ten miles per day, and have or borrow a helmet that fits, a bike lock, and a working bike for this camp. Bike/lock/helmet loans may be possible on advance request.
CHILL CRITTERS: July 29-August 2, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Travel back in time to discover the links between today’s cold-blooded critters and their distant dino relatives. Solve scaly mysteries and use your reptile radar to search for herps in nature nearby. Invent a cold-blooded critter of your own and chill out with a tube float down the canoe canal!
RIVER RUNNERS at MOUNT PISGAH: August 5-9, 9am-4pm, Mount Pisgah Arboretum: Discover the wild, watery world of the Willamette River’s Coast Fork as you explore in this amazing park. Wade like a heron and navigate through a salmon migration obstacle course. Sharpen your observation skills as you look for signs of water wildlife and catch aquatic insects!
ROCK ‘N ROLL: August 12-16, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Explore the Willamette River watershed by bike! Pedal next to the rolling river and past tall trees on the Willamette River Bike Path. Get a close up look at local geology when you visit Fossil Beach in Alton Baker Park and the famous rock columns at Skinner Butte. Take a break from biking on a relaxing tube float down the canoe canal. *You must be able to cycle up to ten miles per day, and have or borrow a helmet that fits, a bike lock, and a working bike for this camp. Bike/lock/helmet loans may be possible on advance request.
DIG IN AND COOK OUT: August 26-30, 9am-4pm, Alton Baker Park: Slice, dice, mix, and mash your way through a week of tasty treats made from Learnscape garden goodies. Create paper you can plant, brew herbal teas, dry apple chips, and bake artistic pizzas in a solar oven. Enjoy a camp cook-off and bike-blended smoothies!