Winter Adventure Camps!

There's no shortage of life in a winter forest. From the chickadees and titmice calling overhead, the tap-tapping of a woodpecker, a stray spider on the snow, and those dark black stoneflies that appear on warmish days - there's plenty to see and hear on a winter's day. 

One of my personal favorite Baltimore Woods winter spottings is seeing what, at first, appears to be the slide mark of a huge otter as it sailed down a hill on its belly. You can see these too, especially in late February.

These aren't really left by otters. They are left by the dozens of children who come to our Winter Nature Adventure Day Camps. They slide, climb, slide, laugh, shout, slide, and play until that awful time when their parents come to take them home for the night. Their tracks are not just evidence of a fun day in the woods, the tracks are evidence of kids building personal connections to nature. They are engaged in all the wonderful aspects of Nature Play, and are reaping the benefits therein. 

For more information on the importance and benefits of Nature Play, visit http://www.childrenandnature.org/. It's important stuff.

To see our camp kids in action, check out this video:

 

These are some of my favorite winter days. Make sure you get out this winter and play a little yourself - it'll do you some good.

To learn more about our winter camps and to register, please visit baltimorewoods.org/Camp