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Student-Teacher Ratio 8:1
BEan Spring Family Forest Fun and Wild Skills Camp out 2024
Why should your whole family join us?
Learn ancient living ways, nature connection and wild crafting
Build Amazing nature-community-connections.
Organized, safe, fun, expert staff teaching wild nature skills and wilderness crafts for all of kiddos and adults!
Family Time! ALWAYS AND YES! FOOD, FUN CAMPFIRE TIME AND NIGHT GAMES
We are doing our utmost to make this event as low cost as possible! HOW? With parent participation!
Deposit now to save your spot! Pay remainder before camp time!
Please know we scale ur cost lowest for homeschool families (typically we are 1 income families) and to our financial need families.
Homeschool OceanGrove Charter Families and Scholarship/tuition support: register here
Got Charter funds? Yes we can bill for TH and FRI... contact us!
Community / Parent Participation: What is this?
We keep costs down by having the fam parents or caregiver, rotate in for small units of time to have a job such as(not yet complete but general jobs list):
Help with Sign UP for oru community dinners and breakfasts, coffee and tea and hot water station helper, Kitchen cooking, after camp clean up, compost toilet clean up and prep before, during camp and after camp (easy peasy and yes we have gloves), campkid safe camp safety watch, camp fire safety keepers, game duty support, wild kiddos game support, night game support, wood choppers, kitchen support, land stewards for site to support with a small project which a group of us will partake in such as debris clean up after storm and such, and end of camp clean up and
Again, ALL THIS WILL support overall camp running smoothly and to keep COST. down. We pay LAND USE fee and STAFF FEEs with your tuition payment for camp.
If you cannot, such as momma and baby or momma pregnant or other… we can still work out options such as: a friend comes to help out in your stead or other.
Financial support if fees are too high? Please contact us for more support!
Work Trade / Vendor Teaching work trade! Contact us!
Parents got skills you want to share or jump in to help with holding down some bigger jobs for more time? 2 full worktrades and 2 Partial worktrades available!
Teens have you taken our Leadership Training? Contact us!
TEENS: Limited Space for Overnight! Has your Teen been in a Nature Program overnight? Join us! Limited Spots available!
BEan In Nature deposit helps us know we have a viable camp!
This allows us to start our camp planning, get our PotLuck food organizer organized, get our parent rotation jobs signed up for and all gearing up for a seamless Spring Fam Camp to be had by all!
Please know! We cannot recover our expenses if you cancel. Short-notice cancellations often prevent others from attending.
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We have some amazing vendors coming to share the program with us! Some of the classes that will be offered, will an extra cost, to the vendor, as per their hour or more of teaching. More soon on this!
WHERE: Private Farm Location: The Nest, Felton across from Henry Cowell Park
General info for first day agenda…
Thursday arrivals for Family Camp! Come in by 4 -5 and Circle up by for Community Greetings and to settle into camp.
Dinner on own each family around fire. Simple roasting at the fire is available or use kitchen.
Fire time until 8:30 and then bed.
Each night circle by 6 with Evening potluck, campfire and Fall evening community time around the fire!
Music? Drumming? Please bring and let us share music for family time
Friday Morn-Sun Morn Coffee and Tea station provided.
Porluck community breakfast plans, simple easy Friday. Saturday More elaborate Pancake potluck and carnivorous breakfast meals and veggie options. Potluck Master or Mastress will coordinate.
Sunday pack up day and clean up day. Our Simple breakfast returns.
Arivals choices: Thursday 4-6, Friday early 8 am-9 am OR Saturday 8-9 am
Day forest program Thursday current year long enrolled forest school kiddos!
Day forest program starts for family campers Friday and Saturday!
What your all ages, might engage in, we are still creating the camp plans...Activities will be Learn By Doing!
Wild Crafting Adult classes and Kid Classes: Felting and Working with Raw Wool
WE will be working with RAW WOOL! To make an amazing creation!
We have harvested ethically from a local farmer! Learn with us! Make a vessel or pouch and more! All ages!
Archery- possible still configuring with land owner
Fire by Friction with wood and stone practice and learn and master! Help us with Saturday Fire creation!
Work with fibers to learn ancestral cordage and weaving
Shelter Building in the forest
Wild Herbal Tincture making with roots and medicinal tonic making, for Fall Cold and Flus
Music makers with gourds and more
- Vendors:
Yoga with Ernesto @ casa-kundalini yoga
Circus Games with Steve making David & Goliath type shepherd's or Balearic slings
BEan IN NATURE will facilitate our wild forest fun, bird language, Fledgling (2-5) to Adult fun and camp facilitation and coordination.
Early Birds? Yep! Rise with the Sun Saturday Morn! Come sit with Bird Language lessons! Come discover and immerse at dawn in the forest!
Village Time and Family Time each night around the fire!
Games! Nature Awareness games for all ages!
Night Games! Epic SAFE Night games with glow in the dark fun for all ages
TEEN PROGRAM ALL WEEKEND FRIDAY TO SUNDAY weaving into the full program!
Epic SAFE Night GAME for Tweens and Teens Saturday night
Why should your whole family join us?
All humans need to get outside and experience what nature is sharing, especially our youth, truly now more than ever! This weekend will inspire you and your family, the importance of our nature-community-connections. Come out, spend time around the campfire with friends and family, sharing stories, gratitude, and laughter!
All Ages more details
5 and under: Mama or Dad please join your Fledgling for some forest fun ½ day programs and always evening fun; ; we will offer fun exploration, story time, wander time, crafting forest fun!
5.5-12 kiddos: staff for a hike ; parent can join their child if desired
12 and up- Tweens and Teens- day activities;
Parent can join with their child if they wish
Limited Space for Teens 12 and up; contact us now to hold a spot!
12 and up who can stay without parent for overnight are welcome but must have experience with Forest Camp outs overnight
Adult time? Yes, either engage with your kiddos or you may take a break for you. Felton is a sweet town, OR stay and lounge and enjoy.
I signed up for the campout one month in advance but received a surprise email one day before the camping trip, telling me that I would have to watch my child during all of his camping activities because of his special needs. BEan's director assured me by email and phone that they are open to "all learners" but also gave me multiple disclaimers that the program is too small, they haven't had any training and are not really set up to support my son. It seems that "all learners" meant "all learners but your son".
I am not the first parent writing a negative review based on BEan's discrimination against families with neurodivergent kids. These are the very kids who can most benefit from being in nature, and it's very sad that BEan pushes them aside or punishes their families.
We are sad that you felt that your son and your family were excluded, when that was truly not our intention at all. We wish you both could have come and enjoyed the time with us. We wish you both the best.
Sincerely,
Marisa Bean
Director, Owner and Mother
BEan in Nature