Alameda Young Naturalist Club

Join us for a New Year's Make-Your-Own Pizza Party camp at REAP Center this Dec 29-31! Kids ages 6-12+ If your kids have not yet done one of our programs at REAP Center, its EPIC! All the fun of archery, low ropes course, wild foraging and cooking over a fire, AND a pizza making party!
Sign up here: https://www.alamedayoungnaturalistclub.com/signup

Our baby chicks are almost grown up! Now we're deciding on names. I'm voting for "Professor Parkour", "Spooderman", and "Speckle-T" to win 🤣🐔🐥🌿

Need a last minute childcare plan for AUSD Spring Break? AYNC has 3 spots at our Calhoun location for Outdoor Cooking, 9-3 (4 with aftercare) M-Th. www.alamedayoungnaturalistclub.com

AYNC has 7 spots open in our Spring Break Club! Your kids will forage our bountiful coastline, play fun games, learn some outdoor cooking skills and have a homemade pizza party.
Chef James is all about it!

The rain is no problem for our Young Naturalists! It just means we get to practice our fire building and cozy up with yummy snacks and furry friends.

Registration is now open for Summer Camps! Get ready for a summer of screen-free fun: https://www.alamedayoungnaturalistclub.com/signup

Our Holiday Camps are just around the corner, and we have some exciting adventures planned!

We’re offering full-day frolics during the weeks of Christmas and New Years. Come celebrate the winter season by making cookies and clay ornaments, or enjoy a New Year's pizza party! Both sessions will take place at the REAP center and Calhoun house and will include time with animals, foraging walks, nature games, and hands-on learning.🎄❄️

Sign up at https://www.alamedayoungnaturalistclub.com/signup

Its not too late to join Creatures and Clay Creations Spring session!
Monday has 2 spots
Tuesday has 4 spots
Wednesday has 2 spots
Thursday has 3 spots
Club starts this week, but pro-rated registration is also available

We're here to support the developmental needs of local youth and have fun doing it! 🌳😀🐥🌤😄🌿
Check out our Spring after-school programs starting 2/26 - 🦐Creatures and Clay Creations is a deeply imaginative, hands-on, exploration based experience; followed by 🐣Raising Baby Chicks and Creating Found Object/Driftwood Art, a community favorite offering the chance to care for a flock of newborn chicks and explore our coastline for some "trash-to-treasures" art-making.

Just a couple spots remain for our Thanksgiving Camp at REAP Climate Center. Sign up soon!
PS, you can also get a jump on Christmas and New Years Week

Alameda Young Naturalist Club - Thanksgiving Week (REAP) Join us for three days of gratitude as we enjoy the natural world on local foraging walks, playing field games, and animal interaction time with REAP sheep and their new lambs. Holiday-theme activities will include conversations on Indigenous culture, making crafts, outdoor cooking and an op...

You can still register for Survival Skills and Soapstone carving!
This new after school session begins the week of 10/23.

AYNC outdoor education programs are more than just "being outside". We take care in building a youth educator team who are passing on a wide variety of skills and experiences relevant to local ecology, bushcraft, and arts and crafts, to name a few.

To further support our young community members, we train our instructors with 2 priorities in mind: Belonging and Nature Connection. These are 2 important developmental tasks of childhood. Our goal is to help kids experience deep and lasting connection to the wild, natural world and belonging within a community of peers.

Its our hope your kids will have this opportunity, too! Please reach out if finances are a barrier. We are partnered with the Alameda Natural Grocery who have generously donated scholarship funds to help every kid have a nature education.

After School Club, M-Th, is back in session:
* 7 week "Fall Feast" session begins 9/4, followed by
* 8 week "Survival Skills" session begins 10/23.

We welcome your kids to join us as we explore the natural world and build lasting friendships!

School Pickups from Otis every day and Edison on Tuesdays
and...
our full-day holiday camps are now posted!