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Washington Outdoor School Programs offers year-round outdoor experiences where children play in creeks, explore wetlands with cattails and willows, and use a grass maze. Participants climb pine and willow trees, build forts in willow trees, work together to build other forts, and play hide and seek and field games. Children also explore fungus, moss, nurse trees, and large puddles, run on trails and in fields, lay in the sun, enjoy the sounds, smells, and breeze, play and slide in the snow, make snowmen, and race boats made of bark on rushing water.
• Schedule: Programs run year-round in all types of weather. WOS Summer Camps offer a variety of experiences for multiple ages, and campers can sign up for weekly camps or for the session. Offerings include Preschool – Full Day, School Age – Full Day, Leadership Camp – Full Day, and Family Camp from August 19th–22nd.
The program’s mission is to cultivate a child's sense of wonder and foster a sense of stewardship through immersion in the natural world. Washington Outdoor School Programs includes an after-school program that explores the forest just behind the schools. The organization relies on community partnerships and donors to support its programs. The Director is Sibyl Maer-Fillo.
Teacher testimonials describe children accessing a creek year-round where it is only a couple inches deep, walking on a single file bridge that connects to the Cascade to Palouse Trail, and seeing many bird species, deer, insects, garter snakes, and diverse invertebrate water species. Teachers report children exploring tall pine and cedar areas called a forest border, using tools, and having space for field games. Other testimonials describe children climbing up and down steep grades, climbing cracking willow trees and fruit trees, exploring aspen groves, playing in shallow water, using logs for balance beams, jumping off rocks, running in open meadows, playing with cattails, and enjoying ponds with algae, cattails, frogs, and sometimes ducks.
Last updated February 28, 2026.
• Schedule: Programs run year-round in all types of weather. WOS Summer Camps offer a variety of experiences for multiple ages, and campers can sign up for weekly camps or for the session. Offerings include Preschool – Full Day, School Age – Full Day, Leadership Camp – Full Day, and Family Camp from August 19th–22nd.
The program’s mission is to cultivate a child's sense of wonder and foster a sense of stewardship through immersion in the natural world. Washington Outdoor School Programs includes an after-school program that explores the forest just behind the schools. The organization relies on community partnerships and donors to support its programs. The Director is Sibyl Maer-Fillo.
Teacher testimonials describe children accessing a creek year-round where it is only a couple inches deep, walking on a single file bridge that connects to the Cascade to Palouse Trail, and seeing many bird species, deer, insects, garter snakes, and diverse invertebrate water species. Teachers report children exploring tall pine and cedar areas called a forest border, using tools, and having space for field games. Other testimonials describe children climbing up and down steep grades, climbing cracking willow trees and fruit trees, exploring aspen groves, playing in shallow water, using logs for balance beams, jumping off rocks, running in open meadows, playing with cattails, and enjoying ponds with algae, cattails, frogs, and sometimes ducks.
Last updated February 28, 2026.
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