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Why we do this work

With over 20 years in the field as mentors, competitive coaches, a Masters in Environmental Education, and social and ecologically minded guides, we have come to understand that the Earth needs protection, and children have the opportunity to become stewards of the Earth. We believe that children need more than just a village to raise them.  They need nurturing, timelessness in Nature, gentle guidance and encouragement to make decisions as a group, practicing different layers of leadership and teamwork, collaboration and conflict resolution.  We facilitate life lessons through natural and theatrical play, and we encourage kindness and compassion.  When a child has what we call “a moment” they are encouraged to step away from the group and take some time to collect themselves, breathe, and regain composure with the Earth.  In our club we facilitate wholeness, and we invite you to support us.

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How the Summer Club Came to be

Early May Jamie, the founder of Wild Craft Play ‘sCool, inquired in a local Mom’s group if anyone would be interested in attending a summer club.  With 20 years in the field offering programs and adventures like this, and the past 3 years developing deep connection to these three venues, we thought this would be a great place to offer a club with intention.

The intention of this club is to allow for longer time spent connecting with the land, encouraging Place-Conscious practices, and igniting a sense of wonderment through imaginative and theatrical play.  We also wish to connect children with food and local First Nations elders if they would wish to come.

We were blessed to have 10 seats funded by a private donor, which has launched this summer’s adventure.

We still need funds to help cover the costs of facility rental, staff costs, food, resources and elder honoraria.  To give you an idea of what we are up to, here is our summer schedule.

What is Wild Craft Play anyway?

Wild Craft Play is a unique, original adventure platform crafted over 20 years by founder Jamie Black. It is designed for ages 8 and up because of the nature of requiring dexterity, executive functioning and group decision making skills. Wild Craft Play encourages leadership, teamwork, Earth-conscious practices, mindfulness and awareness of their surroundings. Fostering a connection to Earth through theatrical play and hopefully take care of the Earth.

We took aspects of board games, videogames and tabletop role-play games and turned it into a live quest outside. Some say “it’s like living in a storybook.” Where we are the characters, and the world is our quest. Your role is to be a Game Master like in Dungeons and Dragons, where you impart the next story, then say “now what?” and allow the adventure to unfold.

Wild Craft Play is an imaginary world where children go on quests, find and manage gold coins, build villages, save the world from impending doom, and sleigh a monster or two. Questers are guided to engage in youth-crafted creative story, hike in gumboots, climb trees, build shelters, make fires, role-play and shadow-story.

Mostly outdoor and higher-risk activities (such as fire-making, wood-carving, archery, biking and swordplay) in a world where monsters, quests and mystery overtake our imaginations, and we must survive the perrils of the World of Wild Craft Play.

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See for yourself what others have to say about the programs with these testimonials.