WildRoots Summer Outdoors Day Camps

WildRoots Summer Outdoors Day Camps offers nature-based summer sessions where children take part in imaginative play, hands-on making, and adventure in the forest. Camp days include activities such as building fairy homes and tiny homes, creating characters for make-believe play, simple art projects, storytelling, and mixing nature potions while crafting wands. Campers discover forest creatures, build cozy hidey holes and simple forest forts using sticks, branches, and other natural materials, play forest games, squish mud, explore mossy logs, build pretend kitchens, and engage in open-ended play and creative building. Additional activities include gentle group games, searching for clues left behind by animals and nature, following tiny tracks, looking for feathers and signs, carving, building, tracking animals, and creating with sticks, stones, feathers, and other found treasures. Some sessions focus on planting seeds, tasting fresh veggies, crafting creations inspired by the garden, exploring the garden and forest, cooking in an outdoor kitchen, baking in a cob-oven, making and using solar ovens, and preparing items such as cob oven baked pizza, fresh bean tacos, sun-baked treats, and wildflower sun tea.

• Ages: 3–7 years old
• Schedule: Weekly Pre-K and K–1 camps described as full-day sessions, with options such as Pre-K Full Day 9:00 AM–2:30 PM, Pre-K Half Day 9:00 AM–1:00 PM, and K–1 Full Day 9:00 AM–2:30 PM, in weekly sessions on dates including June 15–19, June 22–26, July 6–10, July 13–17, July 20–24, August 3–7, and August 10–14, 2026
• Price: Standard Rate Pre-K Full Day: $575/week; Pre-K Half Day: $450/week; K–1 Camps: $550/week, with a Sliding Scale Model offering five tuition levels (Pay It Forward, Standard Rate, Discounted Rate at -$75, Supported Rate at -$150, and Community Rate at -$250)

All camps are led by experienced educators who are carefully selected, background-checked, and trained to support young learners. WildRoots states that its mission is to create inclusive, nature-based educational experiences that center equity, diversity, and inclusion while fostering a deep connection to the natural world. The program uses a Sliding Scale Model with five tuition levels to make summer camps accessible to families from a range of financial backgrounds and describes a focus on building resilient communities through hands-on learning, supporting underserved populations, and promoting environmental stewardship. WildRoots Summer Outdoors Day Camps also offers nature-based themes such as Forest Folk & Fairy Tales, The Hidden School of Forest Magic, Forest Homes & Hidey Holes, Forest Ninjas: Stealthy Skills & Secret Missions, Mud, Moss & Make-Believe, Tiny Tracks: Forest Detectives, Sticks, Stones, & Bones, Sprouts & Sprinkles, and Wild Chefs, and incorporates an outdoor kitchen, cob-oven, solar ovens, and farm-to-table and wild ingredient cooking activities into certain camp sessions.

Last updated June 27, 2026.