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Westwood Nature Center Family Programs
Bike Camp
Spend a week improving your bike skills and enjoy the great outdoors with other enthusiasts. You will practice handling and balance, learn repair skills and riding etiquette, read maps, try negotiating obstacles, play cycling games with other riders, and more! Take the bike trails to the St. Louis Park Aquatic Center for a day, and experience...
Outdoor Skills Camp
Looking to gain the skills of an outdoors guru? After attending this camp a guru you will be! We’ll spend the week in activities like archery, fire building, orienteering and fishing. End the week with an overnight campout at Westwood. Tents and food will be provided for the overnight. If you need care for your child after camp, consider signing...
Wild About Animals
Do you love animals and want to have a close-up experience with the animals at the Nature Center? In this camp, you’ll do plenty of outdoor exploring looking for wild animals and the signs they have left behind. You’ll also have the chance to get up close and personal with Westwood’s indoor animals including the slithering snakes...
Polywogs: Explorer Camp
Ages 4 – 5 by the start of the session (drop-off program)
Ever wonder what makes a bug a bug? Are snakes totally tail? What’s that bushy squirrel tail for? Why do birds sing? Come and find out the answers through outdoor hikes, stories, games and puppet shows. Choose only one session per child.
Monday – Thursday, July 15 – 18
9 a.m. – 11:30 p.m................................Activity # 7077 OR
1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m........................................Activity # 7078
Westwood Hills Nature Center, 8300 W. Franklin Ave.
$55 per child (resident) / $63 (non-resident)
Registration deadline: when program is full
Dragonflies Summer Camp
Grade 1 (2013 – 2014 school year)
Enjoy hiking, crafts, games, puppets and live animals during this fun-filled learning camp. Experience and discover how things grow as we’ll investigate flowers with hand lenses, use nets and bug boxes to catch insects, study bird feathers and nests, and go on a mammal scavenger
hunt. If you need care for your child after camp, consider signing up for the afternoon Summer Playground Program at Westwood Hills Nature Center (see page 18).
Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
June 17 - 20..............................................Activity # 7082
OR
July 22 - 25................................................Activity #7083
Westwood Hills Nature Center, 8300 W. Franklin Ave.
$90 per child (resident) / $100 (non-resident)
Registration deadline: when program is filled
Pollywogs: Critter Camp
Ages 4 – 5 by the start of the session (drop-off program)
How many eyes does a spider have? Do raccoons feel for their food? What animal can hear a mouse’s heart beat? Discover the answers while experiencing the wonder of nature through outdoor hikes, crafts, stories, puppet shows and animal characters. Choose only one session per child.
Monday – Thursday, June 3 – 6
9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m................................Activity # 7073 OR
1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.................................Activity # 7074 OR
Monday – Thursday, July 29 – Aug. 1
9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m................................Activity # 7075 OR
1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m........................................Activity # 7076
Westwood Hills Nature Center, 8300 W. Franklin Ave.
$55 per child (resident) / $63 (non-resident)
Registration deadline: when program is full
Eagle Bluff Adventure Trip
Join Westwood’s naturalist staff as we journey south to explore the beautiful Eagle Bluff. Located in the heart of the bluff country in southeast Minnesota, Eagle Bluff is an extraordinary environmental learning center. Take on the challenge of adventure ropes and the climbing wall, explore the Root River by foot or canoe and scramble over karst...
Discoverers Summer Camp
Grades 2 & 3 (2013 – 2014 school year)
Get your hands dirty and your feet wet as we get off the beaten path and explore every corner of the nature center. We’ll focus on discovery and investigation of the natural world in this camp, letting the kid’s interests lead the way. If you need care for your child after camp, consider signing
up for the afternoon Summer Playground Program at Westwood Hills Nature Center (see page 17).
Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
July 8 – 11.............................................Activity # 7085 OR
August 5 – 8................................................Activity # 7086
Westwood Hills Nature Center, 8300 W. Franklin Ave.
$90 per child (resident) / $100 (non-resident)
Registration deadline: when program is full
Nature Theater Arts Summer Camp
“To bee, or not to bee?” is the question answered at Westwood’s Theater Camp. We’re combining nature themed activities with the world of drama. Kids will work with a professional theater educator and the naturalists throughout the week to create and act in their own play. Performances will be on Thursday from 3 to 4 p.m. on...
