About
LA Nature Kids offers outdoor adventures where children explore the beaches of Southern California, the Santa Monica Mountains, forests, and canyons. Activities include science experiments, botany, art projects such as watercolors and arts with colored rocks, journaling, story time, and unstructured free play. Children also practice primitive and aboriginal skills like tracking, foraging in the canyon, learning what is edible, what is medicine, and what is poison, as well as making tools, spears, bows, and a piece of nature jewelry.
• Ages: 3–12 years old
• Schedule: Preschool runs from 8:30am–1:30pm with extended care options until 2:30pm, 3:30pm, or 5:00pm; day camps generally run 9:00am–4:00pm and summer day camps are booked in weekly increments, with a sample full day from 9:00am–4:30pm.
• Price: Preschool tuition ranges from $800 per month for two days per week to $1,596 per month for five days per week; day camps cost $650 per week for summer sessions or $130 per day for other day camps.
LA Nature Kids was founded and is guided by Christopher Pierre, Chief & Teacher. Core teachers have extensive training, education, and experience and have worked in traditional, progressive, and Reggio Emilia inspired schools including Palisade Preschool, First Preschool, The First School, Clarefontaine, First Year, and Crossroads. Christopher Pierre is a seasoned multi sport and adventure racer who has been studying Aboriginal practices that incorporate a balance between nature and the human experience, and he speaks English, French, and German.
The mission of LA Nature Kids is to provide a safe, nurturing environment where children learn to love and respect themselves and others, develop social skills, build confidence and self-esteem, and discover new ways to express themselves creatively. LA Nature Kids was the first Forest School in Southern California and blends an expeditionary learning model into its nature school programs, with a child to teacher ratio of 6:1 in day camps and preschool. The program offers preschool, after school, and day camps as outdoor programs, with unstructured free play as a cornerstone of all programs, and is described as a nature school that offers children ages 3–12 the chance to explore their natural world while learning important life skills and as a Nature Day Camp that is the best choice for the development of children as nature adventures teach a multitude of skills.
LA Nature Kids has grown to a community of over five hundred families who have experienced this learning experience. The program has created leadership opportunities by training teachers on the outdoor learning model of the Forest School curriculum, resulting in many similar nature school programs in the West Los Angeles area second to theirs in Santa Monica, and it serves all of West Los Angeles.
Families are asked to pack each child’s belongings into a backpack, bring a hearty lunch, snack, and water, and provide appropriate outdoor clothing based on the weather. For summer camps, beach clothing should be worn under the child’s clothes, and children should have snug-fitting footwear (no sandals) and a towel.
Last updated June 23, 2026.
• Ages: 3–12 years old
• Schedule: Preschool runs from 8:30am–1:30pm with extended care options until 2:30pm, 3:30pm, or 5:00pm; day camps generally run 9:00am–4:00pm and summer day camps are booked in weekly increments, with a sample full day from 9:00am–4:30pm.
• Price: Preschool tuition ranges from $800 per month for two days per week to $1,596 per month for five days per week; day camps cost $650 per week for summer sessions or $130 per day for other day camps.
LA Nature Kids was founded and is guided by Christopher Pierre, Chief & Teacher. Core teachers have extensive training, education, and experience and have worked in traditional, progressive, and Reggio Emilia inspired schools including Palisade Preschool, First Preschool, The First School, Clarefontaine, First Year, and Crossroads. Christopher Pierre is a seasoned multi sport and adventure racer who has been studying Aboriginal practices that incorporate a balance between nature and the human experience, and he speaks English, French, and German.
The mission of LA Nature Kids is to provide a safe, nurturing environment where children learn to love and respect themselves and others, develop social skills, build confidence and self-esteem, and discover new ways to express themselves creatively. LA Nature Kids was the first Forest School in Southern California and blends an expeditionary learning model into its nature school programs, with a child to teacher ratio of 6:1 in day camps and preschool. The program offers preschool, after school, and day camps as outdoor programs, with unstructured free play as a cornerstone of all programs, and is described as a nature school that offers children ages 3–12 the chance to explore their natural world while learning important life skills and as a Nature Day Camp that is the best choice for the development of children as nature adventures teach a multitude of skills.
LA Nature Kids has grown to a community of over five hundred families who have experienced this learning experience. The program has created leadership opportunities by training teachers on the outdoor learning model of the Forest School curriculum, resulting in many similar nature school programs in the West Los Angeles area second to theirs in Santa Monica, and it serves all of West Los Angeles.
Families are asked to pack each child’s belongings into a backpack, bring a hearty lunch, snack, and water, and provide appropriate outdoor clothing based on the weather. For summer camps, beach clothing should be worn under the child’s clothes, and children should have snug-fitting footwear (no sandals) and a towel.
Last updated June 23, 2026.
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