Creature Care 101

  • Entering 6th - 8th Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Center is home to many animals that make up our Animal Ambassador Teaching Team, including snakes, turtles, salamanders and more! Now you can experience first-hand what it takes to care for these animals, and how we train them to interact with people. Working indoors most of the week, you...

Summer at the Ponds PM

  • 4 & 5 Years
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The ponds in summer are bursting with life and every stop at a pond brings surprises: frogs and tadpoles, turtles and muskrats, or ducklings and dragonfly nymphs. Come explore some of the diverse pond habitats at the Center through hands-on ponding experiences. You never know what you will observe!  Children...

Alumni Camp: Nature Artists PM

  • 3 Years
  • Nature School Alumni
  • 4 & 5 Years
  • Entering 1st Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Many artists take their inspiration from nature. Just like them, we’ll create nature-inspired art using materials from nature. We’ll spend our days painting “en plein air,” creating ephemeral sculptures, exploring loose parts work, and recognizing the beauty that surrounds us. Our studio classroom is all outdoors!   These camps are designed...

Fantastic Four AM

  • Entering 1st Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Fantastic Four!  Enjoy four memorable days of summer camp with us.  Want to explore the ponds or climb a 60-foot tower? So do we!  How about ponding, beach exploration, water play, and making s’mores.  We love doing that too!  We’ll hike to fun and exciting places.  Expect to have fun,...

Insect Investigators

  • Entering 2nd - 3rd Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join us on our journey to investigate underground for the insects that we couldn’t live without. Through ponding, flipping logs, and insect netting, we'll keep a record in our nature journal of invertebrates. We’ll also work towards making our own entomology collection through our drawings and learn how to pin...

Astro-Adventures

  • Entering 4th - 6th Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Explore the solar system at Schlitz Audubon! Each day we will learn about distant planets, discover the constellations we can see from our hemisphere, build, and launch our own rockets, create a scale model of our solar system, and operate a telescope.  Members $210 | Non-Members $245 

Raptor Trainer 101 (July)

  • Entering 7th - 12th Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Registration priority for this popular camp will be given to campers who have not been previously enrolled in Raptor Trainer 101.  Just for older kids, this camp will get you working and caring for our resident raptors. Campers will learn the basics of captive wildlife care: preparing diets, cleaning enclosures,...

Storybooks & Animal Nooks AM

  • 4 & 5 Years
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

This camp celebrates some of our favorite book characters and fictional locations. Join us as we spend our days reading books, writing, and illustrating our own stories, playing with puppets, and hiking to special spots on the trails where we can let our imaginations soar to create our own stories. ...

Alumni Camp: Ponds, Painting, & Poetry AM

  • 3 Years
  • Nature School Alumni
  • 4 & 5 Years
  • Entering 1st Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

This camp is the perfect combination of things that Nature School 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...

Birds of a Feather

  • 3 Years
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

We’ll use our eyes and ears to discover the world of birds as we engage in bird themed activities, songs, and stories with plenty of time to play and explore as we learn social and emotional skills to prepare your little one for preschool.  This four-day camp is designed especially...

Fantastic Four PM

  • Entering 1st Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Fantastic Four!  Enjoy four memorable days of summer camp with us.  Want to explore the ponds or climb a 60-foot tower? So do we!  How about ponding, beach exploration, water play, and making s’mores.  We love doing that too!  We’ll hike to fun and exciting places.  Expect to have fun,...

Dig into Dinos!

  • Entering 2nd - 3rd Grade
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center 1111 E. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Dig into dinosaurs with our raptor ambassadors! Our understanding of dinosaurs progresses as we discover more and more. We will spend the week exploring dinosaur traits, practicing evidence-based paleontology, and meeting the surviving relatives of dinosaurs: modern birds!  Members $220 | Non-Members $255