For families with children ages 3 to 10 with an accompanying adult. Join us for an adventure and get hands-on with nature! Each class includes activities for your family to learn together about the plants and animals of the Nature Reserve. We’ll walk around the Whitmire Wildflower Garden to look for frogs in the water gardens, stop at the boardwalk pond to net for polliwogs, and finish with a popsicle treat.

Let's grow even more fun this summer! We have plenty of dirt, compost, insects, and plants... we just need to know how they all work to make something beautiful, and often tasty! Come garden with Mr. Gruszka as you learn how to work, weed, and use and care for a garden, big or small. Direct hands-in-dirt experience and projects that will allow you to take your "sprouting" skills to harvest!

Are you looking for a fun summer activity for your kids? Tye-Dyed Iguana offers a one week summer camp in house! During our camp, your child will be immersed in a world of exotic reptiles and bugs through hands-on education and demonstrations. They will spend five days in our store doing crafts and learning about animals. They will also receive a Tye-Dyed Iguana T-shirt that the entire class will Tie-Dye during one of their afternoons. Summer camp is for Kindergarten - 6th grade.

For ages 2 to 6 with an adult, younger siblings may attend. Each session includes hands-on activities, stories, snacks, and a walk in the Garden. Join us as we explore the plants and animals of the Garden each month. Price per child.

For families with children ages 3 to 10 with an accompanying adult. Join us for an adventure and get hands-on with nature! Each class includes activities for your family to learn together about the plants and animals of the Nature Reserve. Climb aboard the Shaw Explorer for a scavenger hunt on our 3-mile Loop Road. We will stop twice along the way, walk and look for butterflies, roly-polies, turtles, and frogs.

Whether you are a total beginner or have been shredding the wake since you could walk, Water Monkey has a place for you. Our coaches create a custom instruction plan for each camper allowing every individual to progress at their own pace in their waterskiing, wakeboarding and wakesurfing skills.

Become a purr-fect veterinarian! Camp participants adopt a plush feline patient and learn how vet help take care of pet cats. These future veterinarians will learn how to perform a tip- to-tail exam, suture lacerations, to set up a litter box and safe areas for their pet, make cat toys, and more!

Discover the amazing wonders amidst the Garden with your preschooler in Garden Buds! One adult included with each registered child. Register for three or more Summer Garden Buds classes by June 1, 2025, and your child will receive a t-shirt. Do you see what I see? Become a young plant detective as we head out to the garden with our magnifying glasses to discover the many things that are hanging around in the garden including man-made things, natural items like plants, seeds, and tiny living creatures.

For ages 6 to 12. Join us for fun cooking classes with a focus on herbal and botanicalingredients you can pick from your home garden. Price per child, one adult per two children. Do you know how to make naturally pink lemonade? Have you ever made a refreshing fruit and flower beverage? Come learn how to make some kid-friendly fancy drinks and cookies to go with them in this botanical cooking class for kids. Parents must stay with their children forthe duration of the class. The cookies will contain wheat flour.

For families with children ages 4 and up. Join us for family crafting time at the Butterfly House where you’ll learn how to upcycle everyday trash into treasure! The Butterfly House will be supplying the materials, but feel free to bring some extra empty water/soda bottles (empty, cleaned, and washed) or other upcycling materials to add to your project. Staff will guide you while you have fun crafting with your family. One craft kit for each registered family.

Under the leadership of our Top 50 Director of Golf Instruction Maria Palozola (Top 50 Master U.S. Kids Coach, Top 50 LPGA Teacher, Top 50 Golf Range Association of America Growth of the Game Instructor), the Tower Tee staff will teach all the basic fundamentals (through instruction and fun games) needed for Lil Teesters and the Birdie Bunch to fall in love with golf and learn to play with confidence. Break time on the playground as well as fun competitions on the mini golf course will keep the kids wanting to come back for more!

Under the leadership of our Top 50 Director of Golf Instruction Maria Palozola (Top 50 Master U.S. Kids Coach, Top 50 LPGA Teacher, Top 50 Golf Range Association of America Growth of the Game Instructor), the Tower Tee staff will teach all the basic fundamentals (through instruction and fun games) needed for Lil Teesters and the Birdie Bunch to fall in love with golf and learn to play with confidence. Break time on the playground as well as fun competitions on the mini golf course will keep the kids wanting to come back for more!

Welcome to CHEF's Garden Camp, where kids cultivate a love for exploring the wonders of gardening, cooking and eating! At this fun and educational camp, young campers will have the opportunity to dig in the dirt and watch the garden grow. But it's not just the soil — we combine hands-on gardening activities with exciting cooking lessons to teach kids how to turn fresh, homegrown ingredients into delicious, nutritious meals.

For riders with some horse experience (recommended for those with at least one year of riding lessons).

Conquer the great outdoors! Camp participants will learnhow to plan for an outdoor adventure, roleplay emergencysituations in the wild, and prepare for natural disasters. These future emergency medics will learn about venomous snakes, hypothermia, wild animal encounters,poisonous plants, distress signals,forest fires, tornadoes,mosquito bites, and so much more!