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Wolf Camp was voted 1 of 2 Best Camps in the Northwest Family News Reader's Poll of 2001, the only year they ran a poll, and we were also chosen as one of the five "best camps ever" by YM Magazine in its March 2003 issue.

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Day Camp Week of June 25-29, 2012

Location: McCollum Park in Mill Creek

Space is available. Van Transportation is provided from:

• Renton/Southcenter - Seattle/Jefferson Park - UW/Montlake - UW/Green Lake - Shoreline

• Issaquah/Sammamish - Mercer/Bellevue - Kirkland/Redmond - Woodinville/Bothell

• Monroe - Snohomish - Everett

Instruction runs Mon-Fri 9:30-3:30. If you would like to drop off directly at the park, arrive between 9:15-9:30 and pick up between 3:30-3:45. Otherwise, utilize our van transportation from surrounding areas listed above. Our day camps are designed for ages 6-11, with 5 year olds accepted if good in classroom situations, and 12-13 year olds accepted if good with younger children.

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• How to Prepare & What to Pack (new page)
• Behavioral Agreements (new page)

"Thank you for the great week -- Lucy couldn't stop talking about camp and all she was learning.  We got a mini-lecture every day after we picked her up. (Presentations for parents were) really nice, by the way! - Kim M., Mill Creek Parent of Day Camper in Wild Chefs & Herbology 2010
"Our son has had a fantastic week. He's already talking about what camp he wants to do next year (herbal) and doing overnight camp too when he gets older. I'm so pleased with all of it and think you two are fantastic at what you do. You will definitely have campers from our family for years to come." - Jenny K., Seattle Parent of Day Camper in Future Survivors Fun, 2010/07/05-09


Wolf Camp Theme Choices
Enroll now in your choice of themes taking place this week:


Future Survivors Fun

Artwork by Wolf Journey alumn Joanna Colbert. In the pictures below, campers work as a team to start fire with all natural materials; then in tandem to light fire by friction; and older campers learn safe hatchet use while scoring a log.

Future Survivors Fun celebrates its 12th year this summer. Re-create a traditional way of life, honoring the gifts of wood, stone, fire and water. We'll follow the Critical Order of Survival, practicing emergency response scenarios, building warm shelter, purifying drinking water, making safe fire, and using the most important plants for survival.

Campers will also witness bow drill fire by friction and then work with a team to practice it themselves. They will learn aidless navigation for lostproofing, and craft tools of stone, including a course knife. They will make "rabbit sticks" and other honorable hunting implements, learning that all life - plant, animal and mineral - is sacred to be respected.

After this camp, the children will feel like they achieved many successes in an atmosphere of challenge, wonder, and captivating fun.

For more details on the skills introduced during this introduction to wilderness survival, read the description of our Survivors Side of the Mountain and Stone Age Artisan overnight camps.


Wildlife Tracking
&
Birding Games

Artwork by Wolf Journey alumn Joanna Colbert. In the pictures below, check out the coon and skunk saw in the park; then Chris shows campers how a beaver chewed the stick they found; and campers demo camouflage movement during a game.

Wildlife Tracking & Birding Games celebrates its 14th year this summer. Tracking means knowing absolutely everything about the maker of tracks, discovering what it’s really like to be a bird or other animal, using Sensory Awareness to know everything that's going on around you, and being able to find a person who was lost.

During the week, campers will learn the Language of the Birds, work together to plaster casts of favorite animals, craft tracking sticks, safely move through the woods, and investigate trails, lays, larders, and other signs of life all around.

This camp is full of exciting, interactive, challenging and cooperative games, as campers learn to work as a team to develop skills of leadership, cooperation, patience, orienteering, dexterity, fun. Their ultimate goal will be to complete coyote’s challenge: decoding mysteries, following maps to hidden treasures, and navigating obstacle courses.

For more details on skills introduced during this introduction to nature awareness, tracking and birding, read about our Secrets of the Ancient Scout and Wolves & Ravens - Predators & Prey overnight camps.


Wild Chefs & Herbology

Artwork by Wolf Journey alumn Joanna Colbert. In the pictures below, campers eat seaweed they gathered from shallow water; two boys collect cattails to weave sitting mats; then a group shows off cedar bark basketry older campers made.

Wild Chefs & Herbology celebrates 10th year this summer. Explore the fields, forests, prairies, streams, ponds, bogs, seashores, and backyards of our beautiful region to discover wild foods and medicines growing everywhere. Campers will work with more than even the Top 10 Most Important Plants of their area, and be able to identify their look-alikes.

We wish parents could watch the unfolding of this camp week, because the journey for these young chefs and healers is amazing. From discovering wild foods and medicine, to investigating their properties, to fully utilizing their gifts, and finally being able to tell their true stories, campers develop more real skill than you might imagine.

The kids will also learn to start and use a fire safely, cook with ancient and modern methods, spin natural rope, purify drinking water, and come home with oils and creams they blended with herbs to heal common ailments, among other accomplishments.