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Camp Ecology       Ages 5 & 6, 7 & 8

June 15th through Aug 21st / Mondays - Fridays
Summer drop off and pick up meeting place:
Koch Park in Aspen corner of Durant and Garmisch St. 
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Drop off between 9:00am & 10:00am.
Pick up between 3 & 3:30pm.

Summer 2009 Rates
Daily drop-in rate $85
3 day pass $240
Weekly enrolment
$375
10 day pass $750
( pre-paid in full )

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Summer 2009 Calendar

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Educational Weekly Themes
Each week a fun theme helps the campers focus on a topic. Crafts for the week's theme are set up each morning on picknick tables in the park. We offer a variety of things to create with drawings & rubbings, glueing & coloring... we often use natural items in the craft projects of the day. The colorful overflowing ECO Bead Box is a kids favorite to make long displays hanging from their backpacks. Each craft can be simple for the beginners or expanded to challenge the best of crafters. Fun games like kickball and capture the flag football are daily requests from the kids with then a short morning hike before lunch. Camp Ecology afternoons are full of exploration and discovery. With the weekly theme on minds, we take short hikes to other parks in Aspen to use our ECO Nature Discovery Kits. Two Field trips a week to ACES (Aspen Center for Environmental Studies) reinforces our educational themes. The nature center offers a fully natural experience for our campers. Pick-up time always includes fun stories of the day's adventures.
 
Native Americans
June 15th - 19th & July 20th- 24th
Learn about native Aspen area, Ute people. Native American crafts from nature. Make a noise shaker, Eco Dream Catcher and a unique walking stick. Special beads in the Bead Box!
Two field trips to ACES to learn about the culture of the Ute Native Americans & more.
 

Aspen Animals
June 22nd - 26th & July 27th - July 31st
The amazing world of wild Aspen animals. Explore animal facts, tracks,
scat, and habitats. Safe predator-prey games. Make an animal footprint cast each day to paint and collect them. During short hikes, we find many signs of animals and discover real animals too. Choose your animal name and face paint to match. Two field trips to ACES allows the campers to learn in true animal habitats. See up close a Golden Eagle and view Hallem Lake for Beavers, trout, birds, deer and more.

Bugs, Slugs, and Spiders
June 29th - July 3rd   &   Aug 3rd - Aug 7th
Explore the tiny world of insects and arachnids. Find slugs and view them in a magnascope. Make your own bugs and  soft spiders. Catch and examine bugs and let them free. Two field trips to ACES allows for hands on bug hunting on land and in the water of ponds. Does it bug you?

Forests Rock
July 6th - 10th   &   Aug 10th- 14th
Aspen's mixed forest are great for exploring and discovering. Cool shaded trails will give an inside look and feel of trees, flowers and dirt. Crafts from plants, clay and leaves. Discover and collect rocks of the Aspen area geology. Two field trips to ACES puts campers in the forests of the nature center to feel, smell & see it all.

 


Nature Discovery Kit

Dinosaur Days
July 13th - 17th   &   Aug 17th - 21st
Rediscover dinosaurs and learn about Earth before man.  Make fossil prints each day to paint and collect. Touch real Dino scatt and bones. Build sand volcanoes, play with dinos and create cool dinosaur crafts. Two special field trips to ACES nature center to discover today's animal features from the Dinosaur days.

 

 

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