Summer Camps - Register Now
NO PRICE INCREASE FOR 2010!!
WOODCOCK IS A STATE LICENSED SUMMER CAMP
Join us in exploring our beautiful 149-acre preserve through hands-on activities that bring your child closer to our local wildlife. Some weeks even have a Friday night campout option for campers and their parents to set up tents, roast some marshmallows, and enjoy all the wonders a star-filled Woodcock night has to offer! We even prepare you breakfast the next morning! Campouts are cancelled if there is a strong threat of rain.
Junior Naturalist camp
For our Pre-K to 1st grade campers, we offer our wildly popular traditional day camp, where each day promises a different nature theme. From Ssslithering Snakes to Digging for Dinosaurs to Native American Games, each day is filled with live animals, arts and crafts, hikes, games, and other age specific activities focusing on the theme of the day. Pre-K and Kindergarten students have the choice of AM or PM camps, while first graders will have a choice of full or half day programs, depending on the week.
Adventure Camp
Especially for our 2nd to 7th grade campers! Geared to our older campers, they’ll enjoy a full day of canoeing, tracking, shelter building, rock climbing, animal handling, geocaching, hiking, games, and more! Look for the canoe in the schedule.
Our camp is staffed by professional naturalists and college students. The ratio of staff to campers is 5 to 1 or better, and the maximum number of campers per group is 16.
Lunch Bunch
For our half day campers, we will again offer “lunch bunch.” Sign up for an extra hour of play at Woodcock - for only $10 per day, your child will eat lunch with some of our staff, and play in our supervised facilities. Space is limited and more information will be available during the weeks your child is enrolled.
Overnight Camp-Outs
We offer an optional Overnight Camp-Out on Friday after most weeks of camp. Campers who were with us that week may attend with an adult to take a night-hike, raft on our pond, enjoy s’mores over a campfire, and have a real camping experience when they sleep-over in tents out on our property. Join us the next morning for bagels provided by Ancona’s grocery store, plus muffins, fruit, juice and coffee!
To Register for Summer Camp:
1. Determine your child’s current grade. (Grades correspond to the current year [2009-2010] school grades). For example, students in Pre-K in the spring, must sign up for the Pre-K camp.
2. Review Camp Policies
3. Review Summer Camp Schedule and select camp program
4. Complete Summer Camp Registration Form
5. Renew WNC Membership (if not currently member)
6. Print off and prepare Summer Camp Health Form. Please note: your pediatrician will take up to two weeks to prepare this form for you. You can attach a copy of your CT Assessment form (or school health form) to our health form but you must fill out our header and sign the parent release line at the bottom. We need to know immunization information and allergies especially.
7. Mail / Deliver forms and check to Woodcock Nature Center, 56 Deer Run Rd, Wilton, CT 06897. No faxes accepted. No credit card payment accepted!
Remember: children must be four years old by June 1, 2010 to be campers. We go by the grade the child is CURRENTLY in rather than the grade that the child will be starting in the fall.
