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Wild wonder,
wild fun, wildly creative, wild and free… Summer! the way it’s supposed to be. |
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Camp Life
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What We Care About...
Our Mission is to grow curious, creative, confidents and caring kids who feel at home in nature. Through our Wildcraft program, we equip campers with the skills and experiences they need to actively explore, learn from, and enthusiastically engage with the world around them.
Our Mission is to grow curious, creative, confidents and caring kids who feel at home in nature. Through our Wildcraft program, we equip campers with the skills and experiences they need to actively explore, learn from, and enthusiastically engage with the world around them.
Our Outcomes articulate how campers will be changed as a result of being at camp. At Camp Wildcraft we design all aspects of our program with our outcomes in mind, from our daily activities, to how to support friendships and team work, to how to train counselors.
As a result of spending the summer at Camp Wildcraft campers will:
As a result of spending the summer at Camp Wildcraft campers will:
- Have diverse opportunities for creative, social and emotional growth by building new skills, friendships and mentoring relationships with responsive adult staff.
- Have a greater comfort in, connection to, and responsibility towards the natural world that surrounds us.
- Develop an enduring sense of wonder, curiosity, and independence nurtured by the creative arts and by exploration of their environment.
Our Campers Make Awesome Art!
As an art and nature camp, we take art-making to new heights. There are no "cookie-cutter" projects here, rather we introduce campers to a surprising range of materials and techniques, unleash their creativity and imagination while building new skills.
Camp Wildcraft Core Values
Our core camp values, which are intentionally fostered through our activities and relationships with the campers, are Confidence, Creativity, Curiosity, Caring and Connection. We think summer camp is the ideal place to develop and practice these values, and build emotional intelligence, through teamwork, exploration, safely pushing limits, and building genuine connections with new friends and caring counselors. The matrix below shows the qualities we explicitly foster and develop each day.
CONFIDENCE
Practice
Focus
Resilience
Pushing limits
Healthy risk
Positive feedback
Practice
Focus
Resilience
Pushing limits
Healthy risk
Positive feedback
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CREATIVITY
Vision Receptivity Experimentation Skill building Imagination Collaboration |
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CARING
Empathy Kindness Friendship Listening Trust Teamwork |
CURIOSITY
Discovery
Openness
Wonder
Exploration
Investigation
Learning
Passion
Discovery
Openness
Wonder
Exploration
Investigation
Learning
Passion
