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Interested in exploring a child-led, rain or shine, outdoor summer camp program for your children? Hickory Hill Nature School is offering a 2025 summer camp program for children ages 4-6, 12 children per day. Spaces fill up quickly and are first-come, first-served! Children must be completely independent with self care in the bathroom.

Camps are by the week from 9:30am-1:30pm.  

- Weekly sessions to be announced March 2025

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Benefits of an Outdoor Classroom: 

• Outdoor exploration

• Stewardship building

• Natural connection to nature

• Promoting independence, confidence, and empathy

• Art processes, building, and creativity

• Exercise for balance and well being

• All weather, all year

• Physical skills: risk taking and development of both gross/fine motor skills

• Strong social skills 

• Observation and study of native mammals, birds, herpetology, insects, plants, and trees

• Gardening for food-to-table

• Mixed age groups

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