Paws & Claws learned all about mammals, including some hands-on learning about camouflage!
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| How many campers can you find? |
Jr. Beekeepers showed their creative side painting hive boxes
They also got a chance to harvest (and take home!) some of the first honey of the summer
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| Uncapping the wax comb on a frame filled with honey |
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| Bottling honey after extraction |
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| It takes a lot of concentration! |
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| Decorating labels for their honey bottles |
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| Jr. Beekeepers' Honey Harvest 2014! |
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| Examining a drone (male honeybee) up-close |
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| Drones lack stingers, unlike female honeybees (workers & queens) |
Trail Trekkers learned all about different kinds of navigation, then put their new skills to the test in an end-of-week challenge!
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| They deciphered clues and riddles... |
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| used their compasses... |
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| and their maps! |
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| Camp Leader Brad giving some helpful hints |
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| Taking group photos can be a little challenging! |
The campers found some awesome wildlife, like this cleverly camouflaged toad:
And, as always, had lots of fun free-exploring in the Wild Woods!
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| Man! It's exhausting having so much fun! |
Thanks for joining us! There's one more week of camp left, and registration is still open! Click here to see all of our summer camps & register online or call the Interpretive Center at 630.963.9388 for more information.
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