We have Kindergarten Openings for Spring Semester 2025. Scholarships for Indigenous students available
Click here for info about our Forest School and Waldorf-Inspired Private Kindergarten: Apple Blossom Kindergarten Bring back the magic of an unplugged childhood!
Summer Day Camps 2025 Register below for Summer Camps!
Let your child’s imagination soar this summer. Screen-free play fosters curiosity, creativity, and wonder!
Unplug and Enter a World of Imagination!
Our camps are immersion camps. Kids get immersed in the storyline and their imagination. Please choose a camp week when your child does not have other scheduled activities so they can fully immerse themselves in the theme. Especially offsite camps where we hike, Families need to plan to bring their child on time and let them remain at camp for the day. (exceptions can be made for medical or other appointments)
Apple Blossom Summer Day Camps 2025
Summer Camp Line up 2025!
Email: naturalchildhood@gmail.com
Registration is open! Each camp has a maximum of 16 - 22 children. Storybook Camp has a maximum of 14 children. Spots fill quickly, reserve yours today!
We follow CDC guidelines on quarantine and isolation. for COVID.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE REGISTERING! Follow this process to complete your registration.
Read the Summer Camp Handbook
Register and choose to pay the down payment or pay for the entire camp fee for one child at a time. Select the payment option and “add to cart” for child #1.
Enter the shopping cart at the top of the page, filling out the registration form. Finish check out.
Begin registration process for child #2.
Do you want multiple camps or have multiple kids? We have payment plans available if your family is registering for more than 3 camps. Email Dacia at naturalchildhood@gmail.com to find out more.
July camp cancelled due to storm - Camp now scheduled for Aug 4 - 7, 2025 9:00 - 3:00 Ages 5 - 9
GET READY FOR A WEEK OF DRAGON HATCHING, DRAGON TAMING, AND DRAGON TRAINING! Enjoy nest building, dragon egg hide and seek, creating our shield with our dragon’s portrait and magical power, and a Dragon’s Feast on the last day. Snack provided on the last day!
July 14 - 17, 2025 Ages 3.5 - 6 9:00 am - noon
Perfect for our youngest campers, this gentle morning camp begins with songs and fingerplays led by an experienced and nurturing early childhood teacher. After we greet the day and each other, the children are read a beautifully written and illustrated storybook. Imagination brings the story to life as we allow children to express the artist within through drawing, painting, building, and cooking, inspired by the story! This year’s theme is gardening! Your child must be age 3 by March 1st, 2025 and potty trained to attend this camp.
July 14 - 17, 2025 9:00 - 3:00 Ages 6 to 11
DISCOVER TREES IN A WHOLE NEW WAY AS WE PLAY AND LEARN IN THE FOREST at Lake Bemidji State Park. Just as we communicate with our words, trees have a hidden unspoken language of their own. Includes tree walks, forest games, whittling, and nature crafts. Join us for a fresh look at trees in this wonder filled week!
July 22 - July 25, 2024 9:00 - 3:00 Ages 5 - 9
Join the fairies and magical creatures in the Enchanted Garden as we help the pollinators weather the storm while learning strategies to calm ourselves. We will try out garden yoga, belly breathing, and learn problem solving skills all while playing imaginatively outside! Children help with garden tasks each day and we will create a fairy garden to take home. SEND A CONTAINER ON DAY 2!
July 28- 31, 2025 Ages 4 - 8 years 9:00 - 3:00
Enter a world of imagination in Fairytale Village! This year join us in Snow White’s Kingdom as we play house with the seven dwarves, make applesauce, explore the enchanted forest, and celebrate with folk dancing and songs. Come dressed as your favorite Fairytale Character or borrow one of our costumes for the week. Snack is provided each day!
July 28 - 31, 2025 9:00 - 3:00 Ages 8 - 12
Step back into medieval times filled with knights and dragons, wizards and royalty! Choose your character, build a shelter, and try your hand at archery. NEIGHBORING King Rohan’s Camp is Fairytale Village where magic is in the air. Be prepared to set up shop and practice a handcraft to contribute to life in the village!
August 11 - 14, 2025 9:00 - 3:00 Ages 6 - 11
Enchanters, wizards, sorcerers, and magical beings, GET READY FOR AN ENCHANTING WEEK AS WE PRACTICE OUR SPELLS, MAKE POTIONS, AND LEARN ABOUT HERBS AND PLANT REMEDIES! Magic happens in the Hollow! Enchanter’s Feast on the last day (snack provided on the last day). Camp will be held at Apple Blossom
Come explore earthy and plant based art in this 2 morning camp! Try out a variety of nature arts such as clay, painting with natural dyes, wet felting, or cyanotypes, rock painting or rock weaving, along with time to play and relax in nature. Leave with several complete projects after the 2 mornings. Choose 1 morning only or both.
Tickets $25 for adult/child pair and $10 per additional child. Ages 2 - 10 years with an adult, dress up and join us in Snow White’s Kingdom! Hear the Story, Peek in the Dwarves Cottage, play in the Enchanted Forest, and befriend the magical creatures! Make a wish in the wishing well and enjoy a nature craft and tea time with your adult. Snack and tea provided and dress up items available to borrow. Rail River Folk School, Bemidji, MN.
August 11 - 15, 2024 9:00 - 3:00 M-Th and 9:00 - 2:00 F Ages 10.5 - 13
Take on an ancient character, row across broad waters, and explore cryptic runes. Mythology and a variety of traditional nordic crafts are all part of creating this working community where we build shelters, cook over the fire, weave, work with wood and leather, and so much more. Day 1 drop off at Diamond Point to row the Dragon Boat to Apple Blossom via lake Bemidji and Lake Irving. We arrive at our “unknown land” where we build, garden, craft, barter, practice archery , play Viking games, and lend a hand to the neighboring village. Last day ends at 2:00 pm with a Viking Feast and Tour of the Village for parents. (SNACK PROVIDED) Be prepared to set up a shop and bring a handcraft to do! Classes in handcrafts and skills will be given throughout the week as well. *We ask that kids are age 10 by March 2025 unless attending with an older sibling
Monday August 18th, One Day Camp at the Apple Blossom Yurts
With the theme of “Shipwrecked”, join us to dive in deeper to traditional skills such as knot tying, net and cordage making, rustic fishing poles, and make fire with flint and steel to cook your own lunch from scratch! Snack and lunch provided. Beginner to Intermediate level.