Spring Break Adventure Camp:
April 23-25, 2012
Come enjoy the awakening woods with us this spring! Play games, cook over the fire, track animals, build forts, learn fire making, carving, nature crafts and more. Sharpen your instincts and learn to live in harmony with the land. Puts young imaginations to work and immerses kids in the natural world. Recommended for ages 7-12.
Details:
Spring Break Adventure Camp will run Monday – Wednesday, 9am-3pm at the beautiful Willowell Land in Monkton, VT. The cost is $150, or $250 for two siblings. Scholarships and other family rates available. For more information on the camps, call Julia Martin: (609) 933-0877 or email julmartin6@gmail.com
Registration Forms
Register by Friday, April 6.
Click here to download the Registration Form: Fillable PDF Spring Camp Registration
Click here to download the Photo Release Form: Willowell Photo Release PDF
Please print and sign both documents and mail with a $50 deposit to:
Spring Break Adventure Camp
Willowell Foundation
11 Main St.
Vergennes, VT 05491
Instructors
Julia Martin:
Julia cofounded ReTribe, an organization that runs transformational retreats for teens, ages 13-18. She will be running a 1 week, overnight program in Stannard VT, July 1-6. Julia currently teaches at the Orchard Valley Waldorf School where she runs the Afterschool programs for ages 3-12 and teaches Music and Movement classes to the 2nd and 3rd grades. Julia has been a staff member of the Wayfinder Experience, a fantasy role playing and improvisational theater camp, for the past 6 years. She has directed theater programs for ages 7-17. She co-started, and has been running a wilderness adventure camp as well as afterschool programming at New Village Farm in Shelburne, VT, for the past two summers. She has been working with kids since 2000 at several other camps including The Waldorf School of Princeton summer program, and Paradise Farms Camp for disadvantaged youth from Philadelphia. She was born in New Jersey, and attended the Waldorf School of Princeton pre-K-8th Grade. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 2009 with a degree in Sociology and Music. She has a deep connection with nature, imagination, and magic and she hopes to help facilitate youth to foster these connections, which already exist so powerfully within them.
John Hunt:
John currently works for Earthwalk Vermont in Plainfield teaching outdoor education to children ages 7-12. John grew up on a dairy farm in Vermont. He has been connected to the natural world since childhood and has a passion for helping others strengthen their connection. He has worked with all ages in a variety of settings. He has studied with renowned survivalist Tom Brown and Keeping Track’s Susan Morse and has also done extensive research on his own through books and direct exploration. For the past four years he has been a camp counselor at Night Eagle Wilderness Adventures in Wallingford, VT. He and his partner, Julia, have run their own camps and after-school programing for the past two years, mixing wilderness skills with games and imaginative play. John has also been working with the Walden Project for the past four years as a visiting naturalist. He loves working with youth and helping them discover their intimate connection to the natural world.
