For families with children ages 3 to 10 with an accompanying adult. Join us for an adventure and get hands-on with nature! Each class includes activities for your family to learn together about the plants and animals of the Nature Reserve. Drop your favorite stuffed animal off at Shaw Nature Reserve on Tuesday, June 10. It will have fun exploring, and then return a few days later to take a wagon ride and see what your stuffed animal was up to. Each child will receive their stuffed animal back along with a picture page showing what the stuffed animals did while they were here.

Come explore the woods and nature trail as we gather sticks, rocks, leaves, and more to create some amazing nature crafts. We will meet in the treehouse and make walking sticks, paint story rocks, build fairy houses, and more. Come ready to spend your day outside in nature!

Roll up your sleeves, put on your makers cap, and get ready to create! This is our most hands-on camp! Who can build the strongest bridge? Can your bridge withstand the shake, rattle, and roll challenge? Explore the world of birds and beasts. Discover what Hooty the owl had for dinner. Kids will dissect owl pellets and reconstruct Hooty's dinner. Enter the Mad Science chemistry lab and mix, mash, and brew concoctions! Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults, simple machines, and megapinchers! It's a week packed with non-stop science fun!

Do you love sharing stories, creating beautiful art, and exploring our amazing woods? Grab your bug spray and sunscreen, and join us for Books and Beauty in Nature! Each day begins with a cozy reading session in the woods. Then, equipped with creativity and curiosity, we'll venture into the woods to find our inspiration for our daily art project. Come and let your imagination run wild in the beauty of nature!

Get ready for a week of wonderfully gross discoveries at Super Gross Science Camp! Campers will explore slimy chemistry, create boogers, make edible excrement, and learn all about burps and gas. From dissecting cells to solving mysteries with forensic science, each that kids will love!

Join us for fun, sunshine, treats, and more! We will spend this week engaging in summer-themed crafts and activities, including some water activities, and enjoying yummy summer treats. Students will need to bring a sack lunch daily. For Visitation Academy Studens Only.

Discover the amazing wonders amidst the Garden with your preschooler in Garden Buds! One adult included with each registered child. Register for three or more Summer Garden Buds classes by June 1, 2025, and your child will receive a t-shirt. Search for secrets hiding in the vegetable garden. Join us as we explore and see what’s lurking around and the important role they play in the garden. Plant a yummy vegetable to take home.

Discover the amazing wonders amidst the Garden with your preschooler in Garden Buds! One adult included with each registered child. Register for three or more Summer Garden Buds classes by June 1, 2025, and your child will receive a t-shirt. Back by popular demand! After a visit to the Garden we will each create our own tiny container garden to take home. Let your imagination soar as you design your tiny treasure.

Discover the amazing wonders amidst the Garden with your preschooler in Garden Buds! One adult included with each registered child. Register for three or more Summer Garden Buds classes by June 1, 2025, and your child will receive a t-shirt. Do you see what I see? Become a young plant detective as we head out to the garden with our magnifying glasses to discover the many things that are hanging around in the garden including man-made things, natural items like plants, seeds, and tiny living creatures.

For families with children ages 3 to 10 with an accompanying adult. Join us for an adventure and get hands-on with nature! Each class includes activities for your family to learn together about the plants and animals of the Nature Reserve. Create your own miniature house and go on a scavenger hunt hike to find hidden houses along the trail.

For families with children ages 4 and up. Join us for family crafting time at the Butterfly House where you’ll learn how to upcycle everyday trash into treasure! The Butterfly House will be supplying the materials, but feel free to bring some extra empty water/soda bottles (empty, cleaned, and washed) or other upcycling materials to add to your project. Staff will guide you while you have fun crafting with your family. One craft kit for each registered family.

This enchanting workshop comes with tiny plants, pots, pebbles and miniature decorations. The kids will create a magical miniature garden, complete with an extra sparkly touch of fairy magic!

JOIN US for a brand new summer camp experience at TCC: Forest Play Camp!

Join Ms. Victoria’s Craft Corner for adventures with fabrics, woods, and paints. We will construct projects to keep us cool and comfy through the hot summer afternoons. First, the fan will be made with sticks from our school’s nature trail and craftily attached to the prepared fabric as a memorable craft keepsake. We will design, paint, and sew our “sit-upon” to rest in the shade using our fan to keep us cool. Finally, the KITE experience will end our week as we toss our dreams written upon our kite, into the clouds. Join us for a week where our imagination will send us off into the sky.

Give your preschooler a green thumb! Little campers will dissect seeds, make colorful leaf rubbings, and create fruit and veggie prints to take home. They'll learn what weather helps gardens grow and even dress up as buzzing pollinators to explore the world of flowers. Join us and see what the buzz is all about!