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Week 7: Food Explosion Cooking Camp – SOLD OUT

 (5-10 years old) Cooking is part science, part art, and totally fun. In this camp, kids become kitchen explorers as they chop, mix, stir, and taste their way through recipes from all around the country and around the world. Each day brings a new flavor to discover and a new dish to create using fresh…

Week 7: Explore! Discover! Create! – SOLD OUT

Pre-K – K (4-5 years old)               EXPLORE woodland trails and winding flower gardens to DISCOVER wild, wonderful plants and animals here at the Arboretum. Inspired by what we find and learn, we’ll CREATE games, stories, songs, paintings, and other expressive works. Develop a sense of wonder about nature and a desire to go “into…

Week 7: Lunch Buddies – Explore! Discover! Create!

Pre-K-K (4-5 year olds) Lunch Buddies returns this summer! Campers attending morning sessions (9am-12pm) can bring their lunch, and plan to stay for an additional hour of food, fun and friends! Please note that Lunch Buddies is for the whole week and cannot be prorated daily. Dates: July 27 – July 31 Time: 12:00 PM…

Week 7: Lunch Buddies – Food Explosion Cooking Camp

 (5-10 years old) Lunch Buddies returns this summer! Campers attending morning sessions (9am-12pm) can bring their lunch, and plan to stay for an additional hour of food, fun and friends! Please note that Lunch Buddies is for the whole week and cannot be prorated daily. Dates: July 27 – July 31 Time: 12:00 PM –…

Weekly Ground Force Session

(age 14+, age 12-13 with adult) Join Our Horticulture Team! Help maintain and enhance the beauty of our gardens and grounds all year long—spring, summer, fall, and even winter! Volunteer indoors or outdoors alongside our horticulturists to support the care and upkeep of our landscape. Tasks vary by session and may include weeding, mulching, watering,…

Arboretum Explorers – Meadowlands Sunset Kayak Tour

(ages 16 and up) With the NYC skyline as a backdrop, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find great paddling in the Meadowlands. The many creeks, sweeping through grassy hills and phragmites, offer an ecological system of tidal waters, where wading birds and other wildlife forage for food in the mud flats at low tide. This…