WildRoots Summer Outdoors Day Camps

WildRoots Summer Outdoors Day Camps offers imaginative play, hands-on making, and adventure in the forest, including activities like building fairy homes, creating characters, make-believe play, simple art projects, and storytelling. Campers mix nature potions, craft wands, discover forest creatures, explore how plants, water, and sunlight work together, and build cozy hidey holes and simple forest forts using sticks, branches, and other natural materials. They also play forest and stealth games, try balance challenges and teamwork-based adventures, squish mud, explore mossy logs, build pretend kitchens and tiny homes, invent stories inspired by the natural world, and join gentle group games while searching for clues left behind by animals and nature, following tiny tracks, and looking for feathers and signs. Additional activities include carving, building, tracking animals, creating with sticks, stones, feathers, and other found treasures, planting seeds, tasting fresh veggies, making craft creations inspired by the garden, exploring the garden and forest, cooking in the outdoor kitchen, baking in the cob-oven, making and using solar ovens, eating cob oven baked pizza and fresh bean tacos, making and eating sun-baked treats, and making and drinking wildflower sun tea.

• Ages: 3–7 years old
• Schedule: Week-long sessions with Pre-K full-day and half-day options and K–1 full-day camps
• Price: Standard Rate Pre-K Full Day: $575/week; Pre-K Half Day: $450/week; K–1 Camps: $550/week. Sliding scale tuition levels: Pay It Forward (exceeds the true cost of camp), Standard Rate (reflects the full cost of running programs), Discounted Rate (-$75), Supported Rate (-$150), Community Rate (-$250).

All camps are led by experienced educators who are carefully selected, background-checked, and trained to support young learners, and Forest Keepers Guild is guided by skilled Guild Masters. WildRoots Nature School includes a Nature Preschool rooted in the Reggio Emilia philosophy, a Forest School that uses 40 acres of native forest land as a classroom, and a fully outdoor, mixed-age Farm School guided by seasons and farm rhythms, along with a Forest Keepers Guild that includes character creation and role paths such as Mage, Adventurer, and Creator. The program states a mission to create inclusive, nature-based educational experiences that center equity, diversity, and inclusion while fostering a deep connection to the natural world, and to build resilient communities by providing hands-on learning opportunities, empowering underserved populations, and promoting environmental stewardship. WildRoots uses a Sliding Scale Model with five tuition levels and states a commitment to making summer camps accessible to families from all financial backgrounds, aiming to empower underserved populations and especially individuals from historically marginalized communities to lead in the stewardship of their natural surroundings, and includes a land acknowledgment of the ancestral territory of the Tualatin Kalapuya people.

Last updated March 29, 2026.