Summer Camps 2025

2025 Summer Camps

We have various day camps for different ages and interests.
Choose one or more!

Camps fill quickly. REGISTER NOW to avoid disappointment.

WILD SKILLS & ADVENTURE Day Camp (ages 7-13):
July Dates TBD 2025 (Mon-Fri)

WAY OF THE SCOUT Day Camp (ages 8-13):
July 21 – 25, 2025 (Mon-Fri)

FOREST EXPLORERS Day Camp (ages 4-6):
Camp #1: July 14 – 17, 2025 (Mon-Thurs)
Camp #2: July 21 – 24, 2025 (Mon-Thurs)

NATURE NINJA Day Camp (ages 7-13):
August 4 – 8, 2025 (Mon-Fri)

MYTHICAL ADVENTURES Day Camp (ages 7-12):
August 11 – 15, 2025 (Mon-Fri)

For DETAILS about each camp and to REGISTER, click on camp name or see below. 

WILD SKILLS & ADVENTURE Day Camp

AGES: 7 – 13 years

DATES & TIMES:  JULY 14-18, 2025
Mon – Fri 9am to 3pm

COST: $425 plus GST

LOCATION: Salt Spring Island, BC

Looking for a camp that full of fun, adventure, exploration, and some awesome skills?
Join us for this exciting  Adventure Camp for youth ages 7-13, to learn a variety of exciting skills and experience fun nature adventures!

Learn about tracking animals, birds, and edible plants, go on wild adventures, make crafts, and play fun games, while building a connection with the living Earth.

This camp includes:

• Ancestral survival skills

• Wild edibles & food foraging from the land

• Animal Tracking

• Make natural Crafts

• Expand your senses and learn Invisibility

• Exploration and Adventure
  

• Storytelling, Song and Games

• Make new friends

   

  Instructors:
  SCOTT LUCYK discovered his passion for nature connection as an adult, and graduated from the Wisdom of the Earth Immersion and Apprenticeship, after earning his BA in economics and working as a policy analyst for the government. He thoroughly enjoys mentoring children in nature at WOLF Kids and privately, and has a special passion for sneaking and stealth games, music and singing, storytelling, and the wonders of the night sky. Scott has a wonderful imagination and curiosity that draws people in, strong communication skills that support children in feeling safe, and usually has a friendly and playful twinkle in his eye.

  2nd instructor TBA 

WAY OF THE SCOUT Day Camp

AGES: 8 – 13 years 

DATES & TIMES: July 21-25, 2025

Mon-Fri  9am to 3pm

COST: $425 plus GST

LOCATION: Salt Spring Island

Stealth – Camo – Invisibility – Sneaking – Play – Skills
So Much Fun! This camp is like the best game of hide and seek you ever played plus so much more!

Scouts are the Protectors of the Forest. They are skilled naturalists with knowledge of edible and medicinal plants and ancestral skills. Scouts are masters of camouflage and concealment; they can track and trail animals, all while moving unseen across the landscape. 

Learn old skills of stealth, tracking, and plant ID, as a way of becoming a part of the natural world around you. These old skills have allowed kids all over the world to thrive in nature. They allowed Aragorn to lead the hobbits to safety from the ring wraiths in the Lord of the Rings!

We will play camouflage and stealth games, go on wild tracking and trailing adventures, learn to navigate without a map or compass, practice ancient skills and crafts, and cultivate a deeper sense of our place in the natural world.  Through activities and challenges youth will discover greater self-confidence, learn cooperation and teamwork, and gain a sense of environmental care taking.

Come learn the ways of the Scout:

• Survival skills

• Wild Edibles & Medicines from the land

• Animal Tracking

• Interpret the language of the birds

• Camouflage

• Stealth & Moving Invisibly on the Land

• Become a Protector of the Land & People

• Exciting Games & Inspiring Stories

• And much more!

   

  INSTRUCTORS:

  KATIE FISCHER grew up on a small farm surrounded by plants and animals, and is a graduate of the Immersion and Apprenticeship program, and a WOLF nature mentor for youth and teens at Wisdom of the Earth. Her past achievements include BSc in Environmental Science and Geography, induction into Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographic Honor Society, years of herbalism studies and Wild Rose Herbalist Certication, extensive experience working with children in nature and forest schools, and more. Katie loves the green world, brings a friendly, warm, curious, and keen energy to all she does, and is committed to a safe, supportive, and enjoyable experience for everyone.

  SCOTT LUCYK discovered his passion for nature connection as an adult, and graduated from the Wisdom of the Earth Immersion and Apprenticeship, after earning his BA in economics and working as a policy analyst for the government. He thoroughly enjoys mentoring children in nature at WOLF Kids and privately, and has a special passion for sneaking and stealth games, music and singing, storytelling, and the wonders of the night sky. Scott has a wonderful imagination and curiosity that draws people in, strong communication skills that support children in feeling safe, and usually has a friendly and playful twinkle in his eye.

FOREST EXPLORERS Day Camp (two options)

AGES: 4 – 6 years

DATES & TIMES:
Camp #1: July 14-17, 2025
Camp #2: July 21-24, 2025

Mon-Thurs,  9:30am to 1:30pm

COST: $385 plus GST

LOCATION: South end,  Salt Spring Island, BC

Birds! Plants! Mud!
This exciting nature-based camp for 4 – 6 year olds has a different theme every day!

Fun, age-appropriate activities include plant identification, wanders in the forest, exploring the beach, learning about birds, playing games, singing songs and more.

The instrcutors have a particular love for this age group, with kindness, compassion, and an attachment-centred approach forming the container for so much fun and play.

Each day takes place at a different beautiful location (forest, beach etc) in the south end of Salt Spring.

Limited space for small group size.

NIKOYA CATRY-BAUER has breathed nature connection since birth and grew up attending WOLF programs for 11 years before continuing her education and work life, which has included travel to wild places, dance performance and choreography, gymnastics coaching with Salt Spring Gymnastics, gardening, creative childcare for active families, and ongoing training in natural horse training and equine bodywork. Nikoya loves to move and laugh, brings both a gentle attunement to children’s sensitivities and a vibrant sense of aliveness and play, is deeply connected to nature, and has a special place in her heart for young children, horses, and chickens. Nikoya was the original Forest Explorers mentor years ago and continues to love leading it.

BAILEY DALTON took her first survival course at Wisdom of the Earth 15 years ago, in her teens. Since then, Bailey has taught at various wilderness schools and is a graduate of the Immersion and Appretniceship programs at the Wildneress Awareness School. Bailey was a beloved core mentor for both the WOLF Kids program and the Wild Teens Expeditions and has also been an instructor for the Wild Child family program. Bailey is known for her kindness, deep listening, playfulness and humour, and serious skills, from wielding big power tools to fine detailed handwork. Bailey is passionate about caring for the land and for humans, growing food, compassionate communication and inclusion, fire making, bird language, music and tracking.

Together, Nikoya and Bailey being a lot of experience, love, pateince, humour, compassion, creativity and adventure to this age group!

NATURE NINJA Day Camp

AGES: 7 – 13 years. 

DATES & TIMES:  August 4 – 8, 2025

Mon-Fri, 9am to 3pm

COST: $435 plus GST

LOCATION: Salt Spring Island, BC, South end

Learn the amazing skills and secrets of the ancient ninjas from a real Ninja master, in this exciting camp! Practice stealth and camouflage, travel silently and invisibly among the shadows, communicate with secret codes, discover animals and plants, learn stick fighting, jumping and climbing skills, and more through games, stories, and traditional Ninja training methods.

Real skills, real challenges, and real adventure:

• Natural Camouflage (get down and dirty!)

• Stealth and Invisibility

• Animal Tracking

• Immersion in Nature and Sensory Awareness Training
  

• Sneaking & Natural, Silent Movement

• Secret Codes

• Plant Medicines

• Stick Fighting, Jumping and Climbing Skills

• Martial Arts Ethics & Role of Protector/Helper

• Games and Stories

• And much more!

Instructors:
FRANK DOSS is a highly skilled martial arts teacher and nature mentor, who has been practicing Ninjutsu for decades and brings these ancient practices to life with passion and enthusiasm. Frank has been a popular instructor for Wisdom of the Earth since it’s inception, and has been leading Ninja Camp for more years than we can count. He never seems to tire of mentoring youth with playfulness and skill, and this camp often fills quickly.

2nd instructor TBA

MYTHICAL ADVENTURES Day Camp

AGES: 7 – 12 years 

DATES & TIMES:  August 11-15, 2025

Mon-Fri, 9am to 3pm

COST: $435 plus GST

LOCATION: Salt Spring Island, BC, South end

This is the perfect camp for anyone who loves stories, making things, games, and adventure! Every morning, we will hear and explore ancient myths, learn the skills of the heroes, play games and dive deep into the symbols and meanings of some of our ancestors’ most cherished tales. Then you’ll learn cool skills and how to make fun and useful things out of simple materials in this exciting hands-on, imaginative, and creative camp! A great camp for kids who love imaginative tales and to make practical things with their hands. Every item has a story and so of course, Frank and Haley will bring their great storytelling skills and Ninja lore, as well as exciting and fun games! 

Real skills, real challenges, and real adventure:

•  Hear awesome and exciting myths from two amazing storytellers

• Learn skills from the stories’ heros

• Make cool things you can bring home
  

• Play Games and laugh

• And much more!

Instructors:
FRANK DOSS is a highly skilled martial arts teacher and nature mentor, who has been practicing ancient bushcraft and wilderness skills for decades and brings these ancient practices to life with passion and enthusiasm! Frank is passionate about stories of all kinds, especially ancient myths that teach us about how to become the heros we admire. He loves to create things with his hands and to inspire children to safely push their edges in fun and creative ways. Frank has worked with Wisdom of the Earth since the beginning, and teaches all over Vancouver Island. (see bio)

HALEY VAN WATTEGHAM is a