Ongoing

Beach Treasures AM

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Spend the week unearthing treasures along our beautiful Lake Michigan beach. You’ll learn about the plentiful rocks, fossils, and beach glass we find in the sandy Schlitz Audubon oasis. Each day the waves bring us something new and sometimes unusual. Bring your explorer skills and join us for a week...

Nature and LEGOs

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Spend the week exploring nature and constructing amazing LEGO creations! Each day we will begin by investigating a different Audubon habitat or meeting a live animal. Following our hike, we will use what we observed in nature to complete a LEGO building challenge. Members $205 | Non-Members $240

Gotta Catch ‘Em!

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Gotta catch ‘em all at Schlitz Audubon! Discover real-world Pokémon and register them in our pokédex. We will identify strengths and weaknesses of the different types each day and by the end of the week, campers will create their very own Pokémon. It is optional that campers can bring along...

Raptor Trainer 201

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Pre-requisite to this camp: participants must have completed Raptor Trainer 101 camp either this year or previous years.  Registration priority for this popular camp will be given to campers who have not been previously enrolled in Raptor Trainer 201. For campers who have had a taste of working with the...

NP Alumni: Ponds, Painting, and Poetry AM

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

This camp is the perfect combination of things that our students love: exploring the various macroinvertebrates that live in our ponds, experimenting with a variety of different paints and techniques, (even painting “en plein air”), and writing and listening to seasonal poems about the phenology of what is happening at...

Nature’s Kitchen AM

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Come spend a wonderful week getting messy while cooking up funny, muddy treats! We’ll make mud pies and stone soups, construct nature salads and “pinecone upside down cake,” and even write our own recipe books. Be prepared for mud-licious fun, without actually eating the mudpies. Each camp includes hiking, playing,...

Nature Together Toddlers: Nature Play

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Get ready to play outside! We will splash in the puddles, make recipes with mud, watch bubbles float over the treetops, dig in the sand, and even hold a worm. There is so much for young children to do and explore in the outdoors. These four-day camps are a wonderful...

Beach Treasures PM

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Spend the week unearthing treasures along our beautiful Lake Michigan beach. You’ll learn about the plentiful rocks, fossils, and beach glass we find in the sandy Schlitz Audubon oasis. Each day the waves bring us something new and sometimes unusual. Bring your explorer skills and join us for a week...

May the Forest Be with You!

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Join us on a Schlitz Audubon adventure through time and space. During this camp, we’ll discover real-world plants and animals that might live with Yoda in the swamps of Dagobah or on the Forest Moon of Endor. We’ll also search for signs of ancient creatures that once called this region...

Hop, Slither, Crawl

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

This camp is dedicated to the cold-blooded friends at the Center. Learn about how reptiles and amphibians adapt to their habitats and how they hunt and capture their prey. Through hands on activities along with meeting our animal ambassadors, campers will get an up-close experience with our slippery, slithery, and...

Naturalist in Training

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the teacher, not the student? Campers will get a behind the scenes look at how to be an environmental educator at a nature center. They will learn the basics of reptile handling and interpretation, plant and animal identification, canoeing,...

NP Alumni: Ponds, Painting, and Poetry PM

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

This camp is the perfect combination of things that our students love: exploring the various macroinvertebrates that live in our ponds, experimenting with a variety of different paints and techniques, (even painting “en plein air”), and writing and listening to seasonal poems about the phenology of what is happening at...

Nature’s Kitchen PM

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee

Come spend a wonderful week getting messy while cooking up funny, muddy treats! We’ll make mud pies and stone soups, construct nature salads and “pinecone upside down cake,” and even write our own recipe books. Be prepared for mud-licious fun, without actually eating the mudpies. Each camp includes hiking, playing,...