PUDDLESTOMPERS Nature Exploration
Mitchell Elementary School, 45 Puddingstone Ln, Newton, MA 02459
About
PUDDLESTOMPERS Nature Exploration offers interactive and engaging year-round nature programming for young children and their caregivers. The program uses an integrated environmental curriculum that includes observation, classification, color and number identification, and life skills, and it incorporates art, music, active movement, and play. Children work together to ask and answer questions about plants, animals, and habitats, with guidance from seasoned teacher-naturalists.
• Ages: 2–9 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–4:00 pm, with 2026 summer camp weeks in June, July, and August, and a February vacation daily drop-off program
PUDDLESTOMPERS Nature Exploration has served communities in Greater Boston for over two decades. Its mission is to connect the youngest naturalists and their parents and caregivers to the open spaces in their communities by offering tools for exploration and guidance from seasoned teacher-naturalists. The organization states a belief that nature is a unifying force and expresses unequivocal support for the entire BIPOC community, along with a condemnation of all forms of racism, prejudice, violence, and hatred. PUDDLESTOMPERS partners with various schools, preschools, and Parks & Recreation Departments across Greater Boston, and donates a percentage of revenue in each community it serves to support local environmental education and conservation efforts.
Last updated January 27, 2026.
• Ages: 2–9 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–4:00 pm, with 2026 summer camp weeks in June, July, and August, and a February vacation daily drop-off program
PUDDLESTOMPERS Nature Exploration has served communities in Greater Boston for over two decades. Its mission is to connect the youngest naturalists and their parents and caregivers to the open spaces in their communities by offering tools for exploration and guidance from seasoned teacher-naturalists. The organization states a belief that nature is a unifying force and expresses unequivocal support for the entire BIPOC community, along with a condemnation of all forms of racism, prejudice, violence, and hatred. PUDDLESTOMPERS partners with various schools, preschools, and Parks & Recreation Departments across Greater Boston, and donates a percentage of revenue in each community it serves to support local environmental education and conservation efforts.
Last updated January 27, 2026.
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