Camper days include playing games, hiking, solo walks, observing wildlife, and hands-on activities such as ponding, mapping, and crafts at the nature center. Campers will deepen their understanding and appreciation of ecology and wildlife. Concentrating on the waters of Broadmoor, campers investigate wetlands, waterfalls, and the Charles River. While getting muddy learning about the plants and animals at the river's edge, campers use binoculars, microscopes, field guides, and seine nets to learn the skills of a field biologist. Activities include observing, capturing, and identifying insects, salamanders, turtles, and birds in the fields, forest, and stream, exploring, playing games, and hiking the outer trails of the sanctuary.
Campers learn basic to advanced canoeing techniques, including how to rescue a swamped canoe.
They'll spend their time along the Charles River having fun, making friends, learning skills such as map reading and compass use, seine netting, and observing wildlife. Group building is also a central part of this program. The session concludes with an overnight camp-out with stargazing, a night hike, and dawn exploration. Art in Nature will inspire an appreciation for natural history by spending lots of time outdoors exploring woods, meadows, and streams and observing the plants, animals, geology, and natural patterns. Campers will develop a journal of drawings and notes, combining the traditional techniques of artist and field naturalist.