Green Stuff Summer Camp

Have your child spend a magical week at the UC Botanical Garden’s award-winning nature camp. Green Stuff camp is a fun hands-on science day camp for children ages 5 to 10, with a special alumni week for returning campers 10-12 years old.  Examples of activities campers do include:

• Go on a five senses tour of the Garden
• Learn about amazing plant adaptations and habitat diversity
• Taste foods growing in our Crops of the World garden
• Become a young botanist and see plant parts up close under microscopes
• Keep a nature journal
• Experiment with growing your own seedlings
• Hunt for garden animals including birds, newts, lizards and compost critters
• Discover how Native Americans of California used plants
• Make art and crafts from plant material to take home
• Investigate in a different part of the Garden everyday!

Green Stuff is wonderfully small camp, limited to 10 children per week with 2 counselors, where each child gets very personal attention. The two counselors are a team of one lead staff with a degree and experience in childhood education paired with a well-trained UC Berkeley undergraduate or graduate student in Plant Sciences, both of whom have experience and a love for sharing with young children the wonders of the natural world.