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 2008
North Branch Nature CenterSummer Camps Day Camps for Curious Kids Ages 3 to 18 Woods and water explorations, games, hikes, live animals, nature study, crafts, friends and fun! The North Branch Nature Center has been offering fun, exciting and educational nature camps for children for more than 10 years. Catching frogs, watching hawks, following grasshoppers, making new friends - isn’t this just what a child’s summer should be? Pages and Paw Prints Children love animals creeping, flying, and crawling outdoors. They also love them in storybooks. We will meet some local animals around the Nature Center each day, and follow up with stories, games, and activities about our animal friends.
Animals on the Wing Summer is the best time to find flying creatures. Campers will learn to identify various insects, birds, and maybe even flying mammals as they hike the trails around NBNC. Tales and Trails Have you followed a ‘Story Walk’ in town yet? For this 4 day holiday week camp we’ll write and illustrate one or more books to post on NBNC trails. And we’ll walk with our stories in the 3rd of July Parade (optional.)
BioBlitz – Nature’s Treasure Hunt We will join in the excitement of NBNC’s upcoming BioBlitz, a 24-hour inventory of all living things. From digging pit-fall traps, to running through fields with nets, we will search for creatures big and small. Campers are welcome to participate in the BioBlitz, which will begin at 3pm on July 11th.
Walk on the Wild Side Mid-summer is full of flowers and animals to discover. Campers will enjoy songs, stories, and activities to help them learn what forms of nature are all around us.
There’s no better way to cool off on a hot summer day than to get wet! We’ll do just that, and examine some of the critters that live within our streams, rivers, and ponds. A fascinating world awaits us just beneath the water’s surface. Summer Scientists Vermont’s scientists work intensely outdoors all summer to study our environment. We will take several field trips to meet some of them and learn about biology, geology, astronomy, and archeology up close and personal. The extra fee helps to cover transportation. Creatures of the Forest Floor As we explore the forest floor, we’ll find it to be an amazingly productive habitat! From rotting logs to mossy rocks to holes and tunnels of unknown depths, we’ll investigate some creatures that we seldom see, but which live right beneath our toes! Bouncy Bugs Want to catch a butterfly, a beetle or a backswimmer and watch them fly, crawl or dive outdoors? We’ll do just that, with up close and hands-on explorations. We’ll find that there are an endless variety of bugs waiting to be discovered. How to Register Registration can be submitted by mail or by telephone with a credit card. Please make checks payable to “North Branch Nature Center”. Full payment in advance is required, except by prior arrangement. You can download a registration form by clicking here, or seeing one of our brochures. Send your registration form and payment to North Branch Nature Center, 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 or call (802) 229-6206. Upon receipt of registration and full payment, we will send you a confirmation letter with detailed camp information. Day camp hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., unless noted. Children may be dropped off after 8:30 a.m. After-hours care is available during full-day camp sessions until 5:00 p.m. The cost is $60 per week. After-hours care is not an extension of camp activities; it is supervised free time including games, reading, art projects and other informal activities. We can accept only a limited number of children each week, so please be sure to register for this service. Campership Fund Send registration form and full payment to:
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