Outdoor Discoveries

Outdoor Discoveries Program for Children Summer 2025

Details

All sessions are full.

Date: July & August
Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Location: Bourne Farm
Ages: For children 4-8 years old
Price: $180 per child per session

Looking for a fun, outdoor program for your children for this summer?

Salt Pond Areas Bird Sanctuaries, Inc. and Kerri Moynihan & Mari Pandiscio (Session 5 only) are partnering to offer hands-on activities, crafts, and games centered on the natural environment for children 4-8 years old. Each program will take place at Bourne Farm, from 9am – 1pm, the perfect setting for discovering the outdoors!

Outdoor Discoveries children's summer nature camp

Participants will go on woodland hikes, explore the fields, create craft projects to take home, fish from Crocker Pond and play games while enjoying being outside!

All sessions include a weekly topic exploration through literature, arts & crafts and  exploring all Bourne Farm has to offer! Fishing poles and bait will be provided.

Please join us and let your children enjoy the great outdoors this summer! Each session is $180 per child.

Registration is online only and will begin at 10am on Thursday, January 2, 2025.

Feel free to call 508-548-8484 or e-mail spabsfal@verizon.net if you have questions.

Kerri Moynihan currently teaches in the Mashpee Public Schools.

Mari Pandiscio is a substitute art teacher in the Falmouth Public Schools and is faculty at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School.

Parent Information

Participants are to be dropped off at Bourne Farm by 9 am each day and picked up at 1 pm. Children should bring a light snack, lunch, sun block, and bug spray each day.

Waitlist

If a session is full, you may join our Waitlist.

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2025 Programs

Session 1

Farm Week! This Session is full
July 8, 9, & 10th, Tues. – Thurs.

Bourne Farm has so much to offer! We will make fairy houses and gnome homes from natural materials, visit Grasshopper Hill, the cow tunnel, and plant in the Children’s Bee Garden!

Session 2

Marine Week! This session is full
July 15, 16, & 17th, Tues. – Thurs.

We will learn about marine vessels and design our own boats from recycled materials!

Session 3

Beauty in Nature! This session is full
July 22, 23, 24th, Tues. – Thurs.

There is so much nature-filled beauty at Bourne Farm! Observing nature in the pine grove, painting by the wildflower gardens, and printing nature into clay are just some examples of nature-related projects we will do this week!

Session 4

Hunters Above in our Cape Cod Skies! This session is full
July 29, 30, & 31st, Tues.- Thurs.

What do our local birds of prey hunt? How do they hunt? Where do they live? Along with learning about these amazing creatures, we’ll also discover smaller birds living on Bourne Farm. Children will make bird feeders to take home this week!

Session 5

Art in Nature This session is full
Session 5: Aug.12, 13 & 14, Tues. – Thurs.

Come explore the cycle of life and the awe inspiring colors found in nature. Through hands on activities and guided outdoor excursions, children will study the transformations of insects and animals, such as caterpillars evolving into butterflies or tadpoles becoming frogs, and use these metamorphic cycles for inspiration for their own creative art projects.

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