Welcome to Nature's Backpack Land-based Learning Centre
Daycare and camps with outdoor experiences. Explore. Discover. Connect
Summer Camps
Wilderness Adventure Camp. Join us as we embark on a daily journey of exploration of the wilderness. Learn how to be invisible in the forest, sneak up on animals, and learn the skills needed to thrive instead of just survive in the outdoors.
Bring out the WILD in you!
- Tracking Skills
- Naturalist Skills
- Survival Skills
- Songs,
- Games
- Natural Crafts
Summer Camp Registration is here! Camps available for kids from 3-16
Nature's Backpack Land-based Learning Centre
Explore. Discover. Connect.
About US
Nature's Backpack Land-based Learning Centre
Nature’s Backpack Land-based Learning Centre is a specialized nature awareness company that provides hands-on interactive, experiential nature programs to formal and non-formal educators and families in the community. Nature kits provide hands-on outdoor experiences that connect to natural world and teach stewardship in their own backyards.
Weekday Programs
We offer nature awareness weekday programs for children ages 3-12. Spending most of our days outdoors in the forest, fields and meadows, where the children are guided by skilled and trained mentors who understand the importance of play, child directed and emergent learning. These immersed-in-nature experiences develop a lasting connection with nature and passion for their own community
- Hands-On Skills
- Quiet Moments
- Cross Learning
- Creative Creations
Land Acknowledgment
Nature’s Backpack Land-based Learning Centre is grateful to live, work, and play in the traditional lands of the Peskotomuhkati Nation within the Wabanaki Confederacy, protected by the living, reaffirmation of the Covenant Chain, known as the 2016 New Wampum: Peace, Trust, and Friendship (Treaty). Canada sits on unceded and stolen Indigenous land – find out more here: https://native-land.ca/ We are committed to the process of decolonization as an action, not a metaphor.