We are proud to offer educational birthday parties. The program topics offered vary by season. All of our programs are hands-on and active, keeping your child and his or her guests involved throughout the program. Parties are available for children turning 4 and up and the program will be adapted to suit the age group of your guests.
Birthday parties are offered after-school during the week, and on weekends, September through June.
Naturalists (turning 4 & older)
Add a beeswax candle craft for $2 per child.
Our craft options will vary by season and age of the participants.
Materials fee dependent on the chosen craft
Learn about shelters, food gathering, hunting, cooking, clothing, and the roles of family members. Guests will have a chance to cycle between fur scraping, corn grinding, and game plying stations.
Add a clay pinch pot or dream catcher craft for $2/child.
Your child and guests will participate in each step required to transform Sugar Maple sap into sweet maple syrup. We will the Native American ways of sugaring, ID and tap a maple, visit the sugar shed to watch the evaporator at work, and taste a few delicious maple products.
From Stream to pond to marsh, learn about the wide variety of animals that live in the water. With strainers, we will carefully collect (and release) live specimens from our marsh like tadpoles, dragonfly nymphs, and water beetles.
We will also visit with native program animals that can be found in these habitats. We will introduce children to the importance of wetlands and their protection.
Did you know that we have a fascinating collection of living reptiles? Guests will meet a gentle Bearded Dragon, cricket-munching geckos, tortoises with great personalities, and even our program-friendly snakes. This is a fantastic program for a budding naturalist.
This is also our rainy day alternative program.
Explorers (turning 6 & older)
“Naturalist” programs can be customized for this age group
Our 102-acre property is a wonderful wildlife sanctuary. Depending on the season, our young explorers may track animals in the snow, or take a wildlife walk, searching for signs that our wild neighbors have left behind.
We will pay a visit to Bernard, our resident Barred Owl, and learn about his amazing adaptions as a nocturnal predator, and we will dissect his pellets to see what he’s been eating.
We will learn all kinds of magic tricks from the kitchen during this program.
Limit: 8 participants
Materials fee: $20
This is a special chance to enjoy a fishing session at our pond. Rods, nets, and bait will be provided for all fishermen in this catch and release program.
Parents should know that we will be using sharp hooks and that the instructor/parent will be baiting the hooks for all participants.
Limit: 8 participants
This option is currently unavailable, but will hopefully return soon!
This will be the party that your friends will never forget! They will put on full bee suits and join our veteran beekeeper to learn about the fascinating workings of a beehive! Worker bees, drones, the queen, nectar, pollen, wax, and honey…there is so much to see.
You will learn why honeybees are so important to our food supply and of course, sample some delicious honey.
Bee suits will be provided for participating children, please be sure to check with your guests about bee allergies.
Limit: 8 participants
Additional staff fee: $40
Adventurers (turning 10 & older)
“Naturalist” programs can be customized for this age group
Fly rods will be provided.
Limit: 8 participants
Limit: 8 participants
Materials fee: $25 per child
Use equipment just like a professional forester and help us to monitor the succession of this important wildlife habitat, all equipment will be provided.
Limit: 8 participants
The Birthday Host may provide prizes for the end of the hunt, or the goal can be reaching the birthday cake.
Limit: 12 participants (4 teams of 3)
If there is a program topic you are interested in discussing, we are happy to tailor a program to a child’s interests. Our wide variety of habitats and resources offer many possibilities. Please call to discuss optional ideas.
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