Are you ready for a summer of exploration, learning, and environmental stewardship? Join our immersive environmental education-themed Summer Camps for an unforgettable journey into the heart of nature!
Join us at the Fayette Environmental Education Center for one or all five weeks of Camp WILD this summer. Each week offers a different theme with fun games, activities, live animal encounters, and crafts so your camper can keep the fun going all summer. In addition to nature-based themes, Camp WILD empowers campers to get involved with our resident animals in a new way by helping out with Chicken Chores! They’ll help feed, water, and provide enrichment for our barnyard chickens, ducks, rabbits, and pygmy goats! Then on Fridays, we’ll wrap up the week with a Friday Fun Day Camp Out, where campers will have a water war with the Fayette County Fire Department, make messy s’mores by the campfire, and chill out with popsicles the way summers are meant to be enjoyed!
Led by professional educators and naturalists, we offer weekly, creatively themed programs for kids ages 8 – 12 (must be eight by registered week).
Week 1: June 2-6 Nature After Dark. Not everything goes to bed after the sun goes down! Join us as we explore nature’s nightlife and all the activities that happen after dark! We’ll learn about the bugs, birds, mammals, and even plants that prefer to be active during the night! You don’t want to miss it! This week will be a HOOT!
Week 2: June 9-13, Nature Sounds. What was that sound? Nature can be a wild place with the tweets, screeches, howls, and yowls that animals make. We will discuss some of the craziest sounds that animals make, learn how and why they make these noises, how echolocation works, and then make a little noise of our own!
Week 3: June 16-20, Under the Surface. Ever wonder what goes on below the grass and soil, further down past the roots and rocks? Find out as we dig into all the things that live, grow, move, and exist below ground! We’ll get down and dirty with rocks, minerals, and underground bodies of water! We’ll also uncover what plants, animals, and fungus do when they disappear under the surface for days, months, or even years at a time!
Week 4: July 7-11, Chemistry. This week we will take a deep dive into matter, elements, physical, and chemical reactions and so much more! We’ll discuss some of the cool reactions that happen in plants, animals, and in us too! So, let’s don our lab coats, put our safety glasses on, and watch some things explode! Safely, of course!
Week 5: July 14-18, Nature’s Cycles. From life cycles to water cycles, moon cycles and rock cycles, nature is full of fascinating cyclical changes. Each day we’ll take a look at some familiar cycles in a brand new light and discover some surprising things you never knew! We’ll have a special guest join us to discuss animal metamorphosis with some amazing live ambassadors!
Week 6: July 21-25, This Micro-Macro World. This week we’re going to scale WAY up and WAY down to focus on the unseen world and things we might miss right in front of our eyes. We’ll compare some ecosystems we may already know to the ecosystem on the micro-scale, taking a look at the organisms and interactions that happen in both places and discover that things can get really weird in both the micro and the macro world.
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