Our Program

We are so excited to offer ten fun filled weeks to our cubs! Below is a simple breakdown of each week's theme that includes the daily craft, activity, and adventure.

We have programs at both Infinity Farm in Issaquah and Lakemont Park in Bellevue, Wa.

Each program will have two classrooms, Teddies and Grizzlies. The Teddies are 2-4 and the Grizzlies are 5-7.

This schedule is tentative to change in the case of adventuring closures or weather.

Week 1: Animals

June 26 -June 28

Learning Objective for Teddies: Learn how to safely interact with animals. Learn about habitats and their conservation.

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Developing a gratitude for the animals we live with and an understanding of how to better take care of them. Learn about habitats and their conservation.

Wednesday- Animal Food

AM Activity: Edible Plants Chat & Craft (Talking about the Farm animals/Lakemont wildlife food)
Adventure: Sammamish Animal Sanctuary

Thursday: Our Animals

AM Activity: Trail Safety & Animal Kindness
Adventure: Cougar Mountain Zoo

Friday: Animals in the World

AM Activity: Trash Walk Game (talk to the kids about why it's important we clean our trails & park)
Adventure: Seattle Zoo

Week 2: Get Soaked- Water Week!

July 1st- July 3rd

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Learn about water conservation and what we can do to prevent pollution.

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Identify ways that we can contribute towards water conservation, different ways to enjoy water and the many different ways water appears in our daily life!

Monday: Water Life

AM Activity: "What's Below"
Driving Adventure: Canoe Time at Timberlake Park

Tuesday: Water as a Home

AM Activity: Trash Monsters
Adventure: Lake Sammamish Beach Park: Spend some time cleaning up the beach & then enjoying the sand and shallow water!

Wednesday: Our Part

AM Activity: Trash Cleanup!
Adventure: Carkeek Beach Cleanup and Tidepools

Week 3: Art

July 8th - July 12th

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Exploring the differences between artistic mediums and learning how to use them to create art.

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Learning about individual artists and recognizing differences between artistic styles and mediums. (grasping the difference between art made from paint, watercolor, oil, clay, metal, sculpture, crayons, etc.)

Monday: Art with Paints

Craft: Make Play-dough & Gak
Adventure: Mudhouse Pottery Painting

Tuesday: Sculpting Art

Craft: Painting & Sculpting with Natural Materials
Adventure: KidsQuest Children's Museum

Wednesday: Move our Bodies!

Activity: Chalk Paint
Adventure: Dizzy Bus Comes to Us (Stay Put Day)

Thursday: Fairy Fun

AM Activity: Leaf Rubbings
Adventure: Fairy Trail at Lewis Creek Park (walking adventure)

Friday: Messy Art

AM Activity: Handprint art
Adventure: MESSY ART DAY! (This has been a camper favorite!) (Stay Put Day)

Week 4: Farm to Fork!

July 15th - July 19th

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Identifying many types of fruits, vegetables & herbs and understanding how they grow!

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Identifying many types of fruits, vegetables & herbs and understanding how to grow them, care for them, and harvest them, and eat them!

Monday: Flower Day

AM Activity: Wildflower Walk
Adventure: Bellagio's Backyard Farm

Tuesday: Garden

AM Activity: Gardening
Adventure: Strawberry & Raspberry Picking in Carnation

Wednesday: Bunny Day

AM Activity: Carrot Counting craft
Adventure: Travel to Oxbow Farm to pick our produce for the upcoming week and frolic through flower fields! Children can pick some and take them home to share with families.

Thursday: Cow Day

AM Activity: Farm Box Craft
Park Adventure: Make our own Garden
Driving Adventure: Infinity Farm to visit Ginger & Friends!

Friday: Alpaca Day

AM Activity: Sunflower Paintings & Chicken Day
Adventure: Cascade Rose Alpacas

Week 5: Colors in Nature Week!

July 22nd - July 26th

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Develop an understanding of where food comes from and how we can show gratitude for what we have. Make observations about colors in nature!

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Understanding how plants make their way to our plate and developing a gratitude towards the people who grow them. Recognizing the importance of less food waste and learning how to do our part to clean our plate!

Monday: Red & Blue

AM Activity: Big Red Strawberry Craft
Adventure: Blueberry Picking at Henna Farms

Tuesday: Yellow & Pink

AM Activity: Color Mixing Lab
Adventure: Making our own Lemonade Stand and offering it to Farmers and families at the farm/park (Stay put day).

Wednesday: Primary Colors

Craft: Color Mixing Lab
Afternoon Adventure: Kidsquest

Thursday: Brown & Green

AM Activity: Worms & Dirt! Special Activity & Snack to learn about how important worms are!
Driving Adventure: Wiggle Works

Friday: White, Grey & Black

AM Activity: Wallaby Craft
Adventure: Fall City Wallaby Ranch

Week 6: Science

July 29- August 2nd

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Introduction to many fields in science and math, increase observational skills and scientific vocabulary.

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Learn about different branches of science. Increase scientific vocabulary, understand what an experiment is and how to conduct one.

Monday: Scientists

AM Craft/Activity: Kidsquest Science Lab Comes to us!
Adventure: Early Leave for Pacific Science Center

Tuesday: Animals

AM Activity : Build a birdhouse for our birdies!
Adventure: Reptile Zoo

Wednesday: Water

AM Activity: Nature Yoga & Creek Observations
Adventure: Splash Park

Thursday: Bugs

AM Activity: Bug Jar & Boxes
Adventure: Bug Hunt with Bug Boxes

Friday: Dinosaurs

AM Activity: Chalk Painting & Music Teacher
Adventure: Deane's Children Park

Week 7: On The Go!

August 5th - August 9th

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Understand how many types of transportation works and start to learn about distances and timing.

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Understand concepts of sinking and floating and be able to predict whether something will sink or float. Understand how cars and trains move. Have an understanding of pollution from transportation.

Monday: Gnome Trail - Walking Feet

AM Craft/Activity: Making our own Ceramic Gnomes!
Adventure: Gnome Trail in Maple Valley

Tuesday: Car Day - By Road

AM Craft/Activity: Derby Car Designs
Adventure: Derby Car Ramps & Building [Stay Put Day]

Wednesday: Canoe - By Water!

Morning Activity: Natural Boats- Sink or Float Experiment
Adventure: Kayaking in the Washington Arboretum Wetland Trails

Thursday: Plane Day - By Air!

AM Activity: Paper Planes!
Adventure: Design Bottle Rockets & shoot them off at Lewis creek Park (Walking Adventure)

Friday: Train Depot - By Tracks

Morning Activity: Make a train out of cardboard boxes
Adventure: Train Museum

Week 8: Adventure Week

August 12th-August 16th

Monday: Bob's Sunflower Field

Full Day adventure to Bob's Sunflower field
Tuesday: Point Defiance Zoo
Full Day Activity to Point Defiance Zoo

Wednesday: Remlinger Farm

Full Day Adventure to Remlinger Farm

Thursday: Wild Waves

Full Day Adventure to Wild Waves

Friday: Rock Hounding

Full Day Adventures to Rock Hound! (Digging for our own special rocks)

Week 9: Nature Week (Stay Put Week)

August 19th- August 23rd

Learning Objectives for Teddies: Increase nature vocabulary, explore nature with senses (emphasizing touch and smell)

Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Identify a few species in our park, understand that plants are alive and how we can take better care of them!

Learning Objectives for Sunnies: Identify plant species in the park through their leaves, cones, and bark. Understand that plants are alive and identify some of the benefits they provide us.

Monday- Lewis Creek Park

AM Craft/Activity: Tree Craft: Kinds of Berries!
Adventure: Lewis Creek Park Trek

Tuesday- Walk through the Woods

Craft: Number/Letter Rocks
Park Adventure: Nature Walk with Scavenger Hunts & a "Bear Hunt"

Wednesday- Trees in the Park

Craft: Acorn Sculptures & Season Experiment
Park Adventure: Clay Imprints on Natural Materials

Thursday- Let's Get Silly

AM Activity: Acorn Bouquet
Park Adventure: Ranger Chat

Friday- Animals to Us

AM Activity: Barnyard Dance
Park: Learn about and play with Ducks, Chickens & Bunnies (They'll come in to us.)

Week 10: 5 Senses Week (Stay Put Week)

August 26 - August 30th
Learning Objectives for Teddies: Increasing early literacy skills and foster a curiosity and appreciation of books!
Learning Objectives for Grizzlies: Encourage a love of reading and story telling, while furthering literacy skills!

Learning Objectives for Sunnies: Learn about different book genres and the difference between fiction and non-fiction. Further literacy skills and foster a love of reading.

Monday: Touch

AM Activity: Wonder Walkers
Adventure: Sensory Nature Walk

Tuesday: Sight

AM Activity: Color mixing activity
Adventure: Messy Art in the Park!

Wednesday: Taste

AM Activity: silly snack
Adventure: Make healthy snacks! Go to Town & Country Market to collect ingredients

Thursday: Smell

AM Activity: sensory investigation
Park Adventure: Make sensory bins - water, sand, and slime
Friday: Sound
AM Activity: Birding walk! Observe the sounds of the forest
Driving & Park Adventure: KidsQuest Lab to us