McKaig Nature Education Center offers pristine 91-acre woods that are well suited for hands-on nature discovery for this full-day, week-long summer camp. Camps will be led by Riverbend’s skilled educators to guide your campers in nature exploration through hikes, stream-stomping, bug-catching, and so much more. Camp themes this year include: Summer Camp Classics – think
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Riverbend is offering nature camp for 4, 5, and 6-year-olds at The Wetherill School in Gladwyne, located just 10 minutes from Riverbend’s main campus. Each week has a different exciting theme, some of which are new or reinvented for this 2025 summer! This preschool location includes a forest hiking trail, log circle for songs and
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Saturday, February 24th and Saturday, March 2nd from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Maple Sugaring at Peter Wentz Farmstead Join our farmers as they create maple sugar from trees right here at the Farmstead! Watch as they tap the trees, collect the sap, and create the syrup. Learn about the Indigenous origins of maple sugaring
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MoreIllustration by Corey Brickley Hack the Gender Gap by Georgia Guthrie “Wow, that seems very complicated. I don’t think I would be able to do that.” “I just started learning myself, and believe me, if I can do it, you can, too!” I heard this snippet of conversation during the Drop In + Do, the
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