Ages 9–14
8:30am – 3:00pm | Foresters Falls
$450 / Week
After Care (Optional): 3:00–4:30pm
$70 / Week
Please send payment via e-transfer to outandaboutinnature@gmail.com
We apologize for the extra step — avoiding website fees helps keep our programs as accessible as possible.
You will receive an invoice shortly after registration.
Program Overview
Designed specifically for youth ages 9–14, this play-based and experiential program offers meaningful wilderness skill-building in a supportive and inspiring outdoor environment.
At this stage of development, young people are eager for independence, responsibility, and real-world skills. Our program honours their growing autonomy while providing hands-on instruction, mentorship, and opportunities to challenge themselves in safe and thoughtful ways.
Participants will engage in wilderness exploration, practical bushcraft, creative projects, group challenges, and collaborative problem-solving. Each day invites them to stretch their confidence, deepen friendships, and strengthen their connection to the land.
We respect your young person’s drive to create, take initiative, and step into leadership.
What Your Youth Will Gain
Participants will develop both practical outdoor skills and transferable life skills, including:
• Advanced risk assessment and safety awareness
• Fire-building techniques and responsible tool use
• Orienteering and navigation skills
• Wood carving and whittling
• Shelter design and construction
• Team-based problem-solving and leadership
• Critical thinking and adaptability
• Emotional resilience and self-awareness
• A deeper understanding of ecology and natural systems
• Strong peer connections and lasting friendships
These experiences build capable, confident youth who feel at home in the outdoors and empowered in everyday life.
Skill-Based Learning Opportunities
• Tool use with structured guidance and safety protocols
• Wood carving and whittling projects
• Fire-building instruction and fire safety
• Shelter-building challenges
• Orienteering and navigation exercises
• Nature-based storytelling and journaling
• Wilderness games and strategy-based group challenges
• Tracking, observation skills, and ecological awareness
• Creative expression using natural materials
Program Highlights
• Play-based, experiential learning grounded in wilderness skill-building
• Opportunities for increasing independence and leadership
• Real tools, real skills, and real responsibility
• Mentorship that respects autonomy and encourages initiative
• Small group learning with a 1:7 educator-to-participant ratio
• Daily challenges that build confidence and collaboration
• A community rooted in gratitude, respect, and connection to the land
Ages 9–14
8:30am – 3:00pm | Foresters Falls
$450 / Week
After Care (Optional): 3:00–4:30pm
$70 / Week
Please send payment via e-transfer to outandaboutinnature@gmail.com
We apologize for the extra step — avoiding website fees helps keep our programs as accessible as possible.
You will receive an invoice shortly after registration.
Program Overview
Designed specifically for youth ages 9–14, this play-based and experiential program offers meaningful wilderness skill-building in a supportive and inspiring outdoor environment.
At this stage of development, young people are eager for independence, responsibility, and real-world skills. Our program honours their growing autonomy while providing hands-on instruction, mentorship, and opportunities to challenge themselves in safe and thoughtful ways.
Participants will engage in wilderness exploration, practical bushcraft, creative projects, group challenges, and collaborative problem-solving. Each day invites them to stretch their confidence, deepen friendships, and strengthen their connection to the land.
We respect your young person’s drive to create, take initiative, and step into leadership.
What Your Youth Will Gain
Participants will develop both practical outdoor skills and transferable life skills, including:
• Advanced risk assessment and safety awareness
• Fire-building techniques and responsible tool use
• Orienteering and navigation skills
• Wood carving and whittling
• Shelter design and construction
• Team-based problem-solving and leadership
• Critical thinking and adaptability
• Emotional resilience and self-awareness
• A deeper understanding of ecology and natural systems
• Strong peer connections and lasting friendships
These experiences build capable, confident youth who feel at home in the outdoors and empowered in everyday life.
Skill-Based Learning Opportunities
• Tool use with structured guidance and safety protocols
• Wood carving and whittling projects
• Fire-building instruction and fire safety
• Shelter-building challenges
• Orienteering and navigation exercises
• Nature-based storytelling and journaling
• Wilderness games and strategy-based group challenges
• Tracking, observation skills, and ecological awareness
• Creative expression using natural materials
Program Highlights
• Play-based, experiential learning grounded in wilderness skill-building
• Opportunities for increasing independence and leadership
• Real tools, real skills, and real responsibility
• Mentorship that respects autonomy and encourages initiative
• Small group learning with a 1:7 educator-to-participant ratio
• Daily challenges that build confidence and collaboration
• A community rooted in gratitude, respect, and connection to the land
