Wilderness Awareness School's summer day camps offer creative play, exploration and adventure, where your kids work together in small groups gaining nature awareness and experiential knowledge of plants, mammals, tracking, birds and survival skills. Our 1:6 staff-student ratio allows our instructors at our summer half-day camps to facilitate the development of tangible and intangible skills like teamwork and communication; thankfulness; awareness; patience; common sense; self confidence; problem-solving; and respect for self, each other and nature. Full and half-day camps are for children ages 4-6. Camps meet in Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle.

Discovery Days - where imagination comes alive...at camp. This day is part of the Seattle Children's Museum Summer Camp program which provides a create-your-own summer opportunity for families to select their own combination of single, half-day or full-day camps throughout June, July and August. Each day features its own theme. Learn more at www.thechildrensmuseum.org/summer.

Discovery Days - where imagination comes alive...at camp! This day is part of the Seattle Children's Museum Summer Camp program which provides a create-your-own summer opportunity for families to select their own combination of single, half-day or full-day camps throughout June, July and August. Each day features its own theme. Learn more at www.thechildrensmuseum.org/summer.

Discovery Days - where imagination comes alive...at camp! This day is part of the Seattle Children's Museum Summer Camp program which provides a create-your-own summer opportunity for families to select their own combination of single, half-day or full-day camps throughout June, July and August. Each day features its own theme. Learn more at www.thechildrensmuseum.org/summer.

Discovery Days - where imagination comes alive...at camp! This day is part of the Seattle Children's Museum Summer Camp program which provides a create-your-own summer opportunity for families to select their own combination of single, half-day or full-day camps throughout June, July and August. Each day features its own theme. Learn more at www.thechildrensmuseum.org/summer.

Ekone Ranch offers a one-of-a-kind camp program on 1060 acres of canyonlands, forests and meadows near the Columbia Gorge. Our residential, co-ed camp program features small groups of no more than 20 children per session and a 6:1 camper/staff ratio or better. Horse camp sessions emphasize the special relationship between children and horses. Campers spend many hours each day with our wonderful horses, grooming, learning groundwork, practicing in the arena, and going on long trail rides through spectacular country. We ride bareback and western. When not with the horses, campers are engaged in a variety of art projects, nature explorations, swimming, ranch activities and chores. Our garden-fresh, from-scratch food is a highlight of the camp experience (many a camper has learned to love their vegetables in the Yummy Tummy Cafe). Campers sleep in our A-frame longhouse, in tipis, under the stars, or in the hay barn where we listen to the horses breathe all night long. Due to our small session size, we are happy to accommodate some children with special needs or dietary considerations--please contact us for more information. Please visit our website at www.ekone.org or call 509-773-4536 for more information.

The All-Level Horse Camp sessions have a maximum group size of 24 and a minimum staff:camper ratio of 1:5.  This is one of our co-ed sessions.

A special two-day sampler for future campers. Campers experience a taste of Classic Day Camp while being provided extra care in smaller groups. Sunday check-in allows parents a chance to meet child's counselor.

This brand new, 3-night camp is a perfect opportunity for budding naturalists to follow their curiosity and go further with the skills and discoveries that they loved at our day camps. Whether your child is attending overnight camp for the first time, or has been to our overnight camps multiple times, the Naturalist Overnight is intended to be an opportunity for your child to learn more of the foundational skills of ecology and natural history! While exploring the forest around Linne Doran (Pond of the Otter) -- our school campus near Duvall -- students and staff at this camp will have opportunities to track the local wildlife, perhaps making plaster casts of their tracks, and to use both field guides and common sense to identify the tracks and sign that wildlife leave behind. Campers will have the opportunity to rise early, sitting with the birds during the dawn chorus and then creating observation-based maps which will begin to reveal what’s going on in “the neighborhood” of the forest. Sustainable harvesting techniques will be taught, and wild plants will be harvested for food and medicine. Campers will have the opportunity to create and begin to use their very own nature journals which can become tools for further learning as well as an opportunity to creatively capture their discoveries. Rounding out the camp experience will be plenty of adventurous exploration, stories around the fire at night, and the formation of a strong sense of community. Participants in this camp will experience the fantastic learning routines that have helped our adult students develop amazing naturalist skills and will leave with ideas of how to continue their journey at home. All youth overnight participants must return a signed Physician’s Medical Form by June 1. This is for the safety of our participants and our organization. Completion of this form will require a physical exam completed within one year of the course date, and an appointment with that physician for the form to be filled out. We appreciate your understanding.

Discovery Days - where imagination comes alive...at camp! This day is part of the Seattle Children's Museum Summer Camp program which provides a create-your-own summer opportunity for families to select their own combination of single, half-day or full-day camps throughout June, July and August. Each day features its own theme. Learn more at www.thechildrensmuseum.org/summer.

Forest tribal knowledge around the globe is dwindling. Can you rise to the challenges of teamwork and diversity, to band together, in order to help the tribes regain their strength? Initiation into the tribe begins with the spirit animal choosing ceremony. Your tribe will then be challenged to acquire honor beads for each task that is successfully completed. How will your fellow tribe members prepare for the adventure that lies ahead? Search for those that know the ways of the plants and animals in order to gain valuable wisdom that has been passed on from generation to generation. The transformation will be complete when you can demonstrate your abilities in ancient techniques such as: - Build a shelter out of natural materials - Make a totem animal amulet - Create a tribal journal for future generations - Identify native plants and their uses - Practice the five qualities of a successful tribe.

This half-day camp for little ones aims to be a perfect fit for parents and campers. Each week has a creative and educational theme that includes activities, games, arts, crafts, songs and more! Campers must be potty trained.

This session's theme: Weather Chasers.

Each week has a creative and educational theme that includes activities, games, arts/crafts, songs and more! This week's theme is Weather Chasers. Located at the West Mercer Elementary School.

In this three-day session, campers will have a chance to experience the worlds of pirates, wizards, and aliens while playing a variety of creative and group games. One day we will take a journey to the high seas, go on a treasure hunt, and learn to talk like a pirate. Come ready to join the magical realms of witches and wizards, complete with wand making and spell casting. For our Space day, will explore the depths of the universe, play astronaut games, and dress up like aliens. You can also practice what it might feel like to walk on the moon as you bounce away at Sky High.

This week we’ll put you in the cockpit of the Blackbird! The Museum is home to the only MD-21 left in the world and you can learn the secrets of a supersonic spy! Learn how to crack codes and send secret messages to help solve the mystery of the missing Museum moon rocks!

Discovery Days - where imagination comes alive...at camp! This day is part of the Seattle Children's Museum Summer Camp program which provides a create-your-own summer opportunity for families to select their own combination of single, half-day or full-day camps throughout June, July and August. Each day features its own theme. Learn more at www.thechildrensmuseum.org/summer.