A Wild Child Day
Your Wild Child may climb trees. Your Wild Child may get muddy. Your Wild Child may tromp through a creek and get soaked. Your Wild Child may get splinters. Your Wild Child may eat wild plants or bugs.
Your Wild Child may tear clothing. Your Wild Child may not wash their hands or face before eating lunch. Your Wild Child may have skinned knees. Your Wild Child may catch a lizard. Your Wild Child may catch poison oak.
Your Wild Child may be tired, hungry, covered in dirt, and happy as a clam at day’s end.
Your Wild Child may tear clothing. Your Wild Child may not wash their hands or face before eating lunch. Your Wild Child may have skinned knees. Your Wild Child may catch a lizard. Your Wild Child may catch poison oak.
Your Wild Child may be tired, hungry, covered in dirt, and happy as a clam at day’s end.
A Nerdy Naturalist Day *
Your Nerdy Naturalist might forge a creek or climb a tree to get data points. Your Nerdy Naturalist might start a rock collection. Your Nerdy Naturalist might come home with a plant. Your Nerdy Naturalist might get excited about longitudinal outdoor experiments. Your Nerdy Naturalist might dissect worms. Your Nerdy Naturalist might create a record of outdoor exploits and discovery that they will treasure forever!
Our Community
Wild Child Freeschool isn't just about the kids, it's about the Wild Families, too! We are excited to offer our "Not-Back-to-School Days" so parents, younger siblings, and friends can come get a taste of Wild Child. Once per session, we come together in nature and celebrate with play, potluck goodies, and a shared love of the outdoors.
We'll post the schedule of community days on our Member page for all Wild Child families.
We'll post the schedule of community days on our Member page for all Wild Child families.
Our Philosophy
We believe children greatly benefit from free play, time spent outdoors, and building positive relationships with adult role models! Wild Child combines all three!
While we welcome parent involvement, our intention is for this to be a time for kids to learn to interact with a community independently of their parents. A primary goal of Wild Child Freeschool is to encourage a child's independence and confidence in developing relationships with their peers.
Wild Child is a full-day nature program that incorporates a strong sense of environmental and social justice to outdoor experiences. We are committed to helping kids discovering their own unique interests, and how - at any age - you can be involved in creating a better world. And, yeah, lots of chances to get dirty.
We are deeply inspired by like-minded programs like Trackers or Reikes Nature Awareness, incorporating real survival and homesteading skills into outdoor adventures. Wild Child has more of an emphasis on free play, unstructured time in nature, and astrong emphasis on cultivating joy – helping kids learn to be a positive influence in the world without taking life (or themselves) too seriously.
While we welcome parent involvement, our intention is for this to be a time for kids to learn to interact with a community independently of their parents. A primary goal of Wild Child Freeschool is to encourage a child's independence and confidence in developing relationships with their peers.
Wild Child is a full-day nature program that incorporates a strong sense of environmental and social justice to outdoor experiences. We are committed to helping kids discovering their own unique interests, and how - at any age - you can be involved in creating a better world. And, yeah, lots of chances to get dirty.
We are deeply inspired by like-minded programs like Trackers or Reikes Nature Awareness, incorporating real survival and homesteading skills into outdoor adventures. Wild Child has more of an emphasis on free play, unstructured time in nature, and astrong emphasis on cultivating joy – helping kids learn to be a positive influence in the world without taking life (or themselves) too seriously.