Wildercamp (Summer Camp)
Play-filled, relaxing time outside at parks where kids can explore and enjoy nature with other kids in wonderful, child-like ways. The counselors and staff seek to provide an emotionally supportive space for kids to take risks and engage in new and different ways to explore nature. Games, songs, and nature crafts/art are offered each day. Things like climbing trees, exploring a creek and finding and catching wildlife like bugs, frogs or turtles are all welcome and encouraged at Wildercamp. Kids love this camp and remember times they’ve had as some of their favorite memories!
- Ages 5+ can attend full day camps 10am – 3pm (with some flexibility on drop-off time, upon request.)
- sibling discount
- Counselor opportunities for ages 13-15 and for ages 11/12 depending on previous attendance at camp and need
Wildercamp can no longer accommodate children ages 3/4 for drop-off camps
WILDERCAMP 2025 registration:
June: Tower Grove Park – Get your ADVENTURE on!
Children will enjoy the ruins ponds, the stables, the East & West streams and get well acquainted with native plants and trees. Besides visiting horses & fishing for crawdads, children may stumble upon caterpillars, baby birds, raccoons, an oppossum in a tree, or an owl roosting in the pines! There are some special events scheduled like tours of the TGP greenhouse, a visit with an exotic pet or a musical performance by Mario Polo for instance. You NEVER know what you’re going to get each week spending carefree time at Tower Grove Park, open to the wonders all around!
July: Around Town!
Forest Park
Do you know how to find the park’s woods and wildlife hiding among popular tourist attractions? Can you trek from the World’s Fair Pavilion to Art Hill? These weeks, children will be at home with the wilder side of Forest Park. There’s vines to swing from, pokeberries to paint with, and a nature playscape with a mini-swim hole and mock-creek to splash in when the sun’s beating down. The group might build a swing, put on a play, make potions from flowers or have a cocklebur fight! There is usually a visit to a free museum on the last day, or in the case of extreme heat.
Love Park (Ballwin)
Children will have the chance to harvest nettles for tea, search for wild blackberries, build forts, and have races in the big field. Best of all, children can swim, splash, and hunt for minnows in the beautiful Grand Glaize Creek which meanders through the park. Younger children/poor swimmers are required to bring wearable floaties. This is a one-of-a-kind experience in nature for city & suburban kids!
August
Back at Tower Grove Park where children can have their last splash in the creek, do painting or other open-ended crafts in the pines, and see the late -summer bugs hatching. On the very last day of camp, the group will walk to Ices Plain & Fancy just outside of the park – to enjoy an ice cream treat in celebration of the end of summer- on Wildercamp!
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