Youth Education Programs - School's Out Adventures and Summer Camps
Avery House Nature Center, Avery Park, 1200 SW Avery Park Drive, Corvallis, OR 97330
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Youth Education Programs - School's Out Adventures and Summer Camps includes activities such as making pizza in a cob oven, biking, floating, learning about animals, and exploring Oregon’s forests. Children take part in making natural dyes, making garden sun tea, learning gardening basics, and learning how food goes from seed to plate. Camps also include mountain biking, learning about mountain ecology on trails, learning basic camping skills with a 1 night camping trip, outdoor cooking skills like chopping, stirring, and boiling food, visiting a rock climbing wall, making art in nature, and using observation to create art inspired by the environment.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: Most summer camps run Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–3:00 pm, with drop-off between 8:45–9:00 am, and some camps offer aftercare from 3:00–5:00 pm; School’s Out Adventures such as Winter Wildcrafting run 9:00 am–3:00 pm with optional aftercare 3:00–5:00 pm; most summer sessions are 5 days, with some shorter sessions and a 1 night camping trip in Tent and Travel.
• Price: Summer camps range from $264 to $375 per camp, and bike camps are $355; Winter Wildcrafting School's Out Adventure is $65 per day with aftercare at $10 per day.
Specific camps include SAGE Camp: Wildcrafting, Garden Artists, Sweet Pizza, Farm to Fork, Arboreal Explorers, Create and Explore, Mountain Bike Explorers, Tent and Travel, Campfire Cooking, Nature Ninjas, Wet and Wild, and several Bike Camps such as Let's Get Rolling! Learn to Ride, Rocking Riders, and Wild Winged Bikers. Activities across these camps include learning the basics of biking, learning to safely start and stop, getting around corners, pedaling up and down gradual hills, and transitioning onto different surfaces on bikes. Other activities include exploring Corvallis' rugged landscapes, movement and active adventure in nature, learning how nature's creatures tackle challenges, harvesting from the garden, making sweet pizzas, creating berry jam, harvesting edible flowers, and playing games and doing cooking activities at the garden.
Additional program themes include exploring rocks and minerals, learning about volcanic eruptions and tectonic plates, seeking bats, bees, butterflies, and birds on trails, exploring how animals fly, exploring rivers, streams, puddles, and ponds, and learning how water shapes the world and supports life. Children also make art about changing seasons and learn about changing seasons. Youth Education Programs also include pre-K through 8th environmental education, Farm to School programs, youth leadership development, teacher training, after school programs, classroom education, field trips, Tasting Tables, and Classroom Food Adventures.
The Corvallis Environmental Center, which runs these Youth Education Programs, was founded in 1994 and has been operating for over 30 years. Its mission is to educate, engage, and inspire people to create a healthy, sustainable community through food and agriculture education and nature and play-based learning, and its mission is to create a healthy, sustainable community. It is a community-based educational nonprofit that has prioritized partnerships to implement programs to address community needs since 1994 and is a 501c3 nonprofit.
The organization partners with school districts in Benton and Linn Counties for classroom education and field trips. Starker Arts Garden for Education (SAGE) is a 1-acre demonstration and education garden that donates over 50 varieties of fruits and vegetables and over 5000 lbs of fresh organic produce each year. The food grown at SAGE is donated to those in need through social service partner agencies, and SAGE produce can be found at South Corvallis Food Bank, Stone Soup Kitchen, Basic Needs Center at OSU, Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center, Old Mill Center & Stand By SAGE, and Community Outreach Inc.
Youth Education Programs also connect with NaturePlay preschool in Avery Park and an afternoon bilingual preschool program established in 2019. A parent testimonial notes that a child in NaturePlay preschool enjoyed hands-on activities about the environment, including River Rafting camps focused on the history of the Willamette River and Bike Camps that helped her become a confident rider. Another testimonial from Community Outreach, Inc states that SAGE provides 50% of their overall produce and 100% of their fresh produce, and that this is their only current source of fresh produce, which their residents rely on for healthy meal preparation.
For the Let's Get Rolling! Learn to Ride bike camp, participants should bring two-wheeled bikes with no training wheels or strider bikes, and this camp is designed for children who are learning to ride. Bike camps are designed for independent bikers that can start and stop on a pedal bike without training wheels where stated. Tent and Travel camp includes a 1 night camping trip with an additional fee for transportation and camping.
Last updated December 28, 2025.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: Most summer camps run Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–3:00 pm, with drop-off between 8:45–9:00 am, and some camps offer aftercare from 3:00–5:00 pm; School’s Out Adventures such as Winter Wildcrafting run 9:00 am–3:00 pm with optional aftercare 3:00–5:00 pm; most summer sessions are 5 days, with some shorter sessions and a 1 night camping trip in Tent and Travel.
• Price: Summer camps range from $264 to $375 per camp, and bike camps are $355; Winter Wildcrafting School's Out Adventure is $65 per day with aftercare at $10 per day.
Specific camps include SAGE Camp: Wildcrafting, Garden Artists, Sweet Pizza, Farm to Fork, Arboreal Explorers, Create and Explore, Mountain Bike Explorers, Tent and Travel, Campfire Cooking, Nature Ninjas, Wet and Wild, and several Bike Camps such as Let's Get Rolling! Learn to Ride, Rocking Riders, and Wild Winged Bikers. Activities across these camps include learning the basics of biking, learning to safely start and stop, getting around corners, pedaling up and down gradual hills, and transitioning onto different surfaces on bikes. Other activities include exploring Corvallis' rugged landscapes, movement and active adventure in nature, learning how nature's creatures tackle challenges, harvesting from the garden, making sweet pizzas, creating berry jam, harvesting edible flowers, and playing games and doing cooking activities at the garden.
Additional program themes include exploring rocks and minerals, learning about volcanic eruptions and tectonic plates, seeking bats, bees, butterflies, and birds on trails, exploring how animals fly, exploring rivers, streams, puddles, and ponds, and learning how water shapes the world and supports life. Children also make art about changing seasons and learn about changing seasons. Youth Education Programs also include pre-K through 8th environmental education, Farm to School programs, youth leadership development, teacher training, after school programs, classroom education, field trips, Tasting Tables, and Classroom Food Adventures.
The Corvallis Environmental Center, which runs these Youth Education Programs, was founded in 1994 and has been operating for over 30 years. Its mission is to educate, engage, and inspire people to create a healthy, sustainable community through food and agriculture education and nature and play-based learning, and its mission is to create a healthy, sustainable community. It is a community-based educational nonprofit that has prioritized partnerships to implement programs to address community needs since 1994 and is a 501c3 nonprofit.
The organization partners with school districts in Benton and Linn Counties for classroom education and field trips. Starker Arts Garden for Education (SAGE) is a 1-acre demonstration and education garden that donates over 50 varieties of fruits and vegetables and over 5000 lbs of fresh organic produce each year. The food grown at SAGE is donated to those in need through social service partner agencies, and SAGE produce can be found at South Corvallis Food Bank, Stone Soup Kitchen, Basic Needs Center at OSU, Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center, Old Mill Center & Stand By SAGE, and Community Outreach Inc.
Youth Education Programs also connect with NaturePlay preschool in Avery Park and an afternoon bilingual preschool program established in 2019. A parent testimonial notes that a child in NaturePlay preschool enjoyed hands-on activities about the environment, including River Rafting camps focused on the history of the Willamette River and Bike Camps that helped her become a confident rider. Another testimonial from Community Outreach, Inc states that SAGE provides 50% of their overall produce and 100% of their fresh produce, and that this is their only current source of fresh produce, which their residents rely on for healthy meal preparation.
For the Let's Get Rolling! Learn to Ride bike camp, participants should bring two-wheeled bikes with no training wheels or strider bikes, and this camp is designed for children who are learning to ride. Bike camps are designed for independent bikers that can start and stop on a pedal bike without training wheels where stated. Tent and Travel camp includes a 1 night camping trip with an additional fee for transportation and camping.
Last updated December 28, 2025.
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