5-day nature and art camp for kids 6–11 at Lynden. Butterflies, microscopes, clay, watercolor. Aug 17–21.
Metamorphosis, Growth, Change asks kids 6–11 to track the constant flux of Lynden's late-summer landscape. Over five full days (9am–4pm), campers observe change at different scales—hiking through fields, looking at plants through a microscope, watching butterflies emerge in the pollinator garden—and use clay, watercolor, pressure printing, and paper pulp to record and interpret what they find. Particularly well-timed for late August when Lynden's landscape is at its most active.
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