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ZooMontana Adventures

• ZooMontana
• www.zoomontana.org | 406-652-8100
• June-August, 1/2 days
• Ages: 4-12
• Are your kids looking for an outdoor adventure like no other? Join the ZooMontana Adventure Camp this summer for animal encounters, zookeeper insights and behind the scenes surprises! Each camper will receive a water bottle and t-shirt for their week long adventure!

TINIES SUMMER SESSION!

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 12-August 4
• 8:30am-12pm, M-W-F | Cost: $90/week
• 8:30am-12pm, TU-TH | Cost: $65/week
• Ages: 3-5 years
• Tinies Summer Session provides a great foundation for lifelong learning. Our experienced staff and high-quality program emphasize social skills, risk management, and learning that emerges from play. Class is limited to 8 students. Sign up for one week at a time during the 8-week session. Campers must be potty trained.

FISHING & FORT BUILDING

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 12-16 | 8:30am-4pm
• July 10-14 | 8:30am-4pm
• July 31-Aug 4 | 8:30am-4pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th | Cost: $275 (optional cookout)
• Two great ways to have fun in the outdoors! Create a variety of shelters in the surrounding forests and learn how to build fires, tie knots, and canoe. Whittle your own fishing pole and drop a line in the surrounding ponds. 
• Camp ends Friday at noon

DINO-TASTIC

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 12-16 | 8:30am-12pm
• July 24-28 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155/session
• What's your favorite dinosaur? Learn more about these prehistoric creatures, dig for bones, and get to know modern dinosaurs - birds! 

LITTLE EXPLORERS

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 12-16 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Muddy boots, pond soup, and tree climbing, oh my! Get down and dirty scouting out the ponds and forests. The wild awaits!

NEW! SUMMER KICK-OFF

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 12-16 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th | Cost: $155
• Kick off your summer with a sample of our most popular activities: canoeing, fort building, macroinvertebrate collecting, and more.   

YOUTH CYCLING CAMP

• Billings Parks and Recreation
• www.billingsparks.org | 406-657-8371 
• June 12-16 | M-F, 9am-12pm
• Ages: 9-14
• Cost: $115
• In partnership with Kids In Motion, BP&R's new Cycling Camp focuses on navigating all aspects of cycling. Emphasis on safety instruction and proper bike maintenance and care. Expect to gain confidence on your bike, learn to use your bike for transportation, and to safely navigate the different types of terrain at Riverfront Park. KiM will provide each camper with a basic tool kit and show campers how to use the tools. Participants are expected to have their own bike, helmet, and water bottle. 
• Scholarships available. Helmets required.

DISCOVERY GIRLS

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summcercamps
• June 19-23 | 8:30am-4pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th & 6th-9th
• Cost: $275 (optional cookout, combined ages)
• Join a girls-only group for a week of exploring the world around you. Build fires, hike, make natural scrubs, fish, geocache, and much more. Get out there and be a nature girl! 
• Camp ends Friday at noon.

MINECRAFT MANIA

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 19-23 | 8:30am-12pm
• July 17-21 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th | Cost: $155
• Learn the skills it will take to survive in your own mini-world. Stay safe from monsters and also ‘mine’ rocks along the Yellowstone River. Creative, Survival, Hardcore, or Adventure: how will you play in the real world?

TINY SCIENTISTS

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 19-23 | 8:30am-12pm
• July 31-Aug 4 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Put on your lab goggles and safety gloves for a week of experiments. Learn how fire burns, how water fills our ponds, and more. Ask questions and get EXPLOSIVE answers as tiny scientists!

WATER WIGGLES

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 19-23 | 12:30-4pm 
• July 17-21 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Splish and splash yourself into puddles, ponds, and streams all week long. Learn about (and catch!) some of the creatures that call these waters home and get up closer in canoes.

"B" A POLLINATOR

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center /summercamps
• June 26-30 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Birds, bugs, and bats are all pollinators. Learn how important pollination is to our everyday lives while playing games, finding these cool critters, and taking home your own beginner pollinator garden. This week is sure to bee great!

Challenge Accepted

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 26-30 | 8:30am-4pm
• Grades: Entering 6th-9th | Cost: $275 (optional cookout)
• Are you ready for this?! Challenge yourself this week with low ropes courses, obstacles, games, and survival skills. 
• Camp ends Friday at noon

New! STEAM Machine

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• June 26-30 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th | Cost: $155
• Use nature as inspiration to create, build, and experiment with the materials around you. Build beaver dams, smash rocks, experiment with volcanoes, test the strength of eggs, and become a nature engineer in this week packed with STEAM activities.  

Zoology

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center /summercamps
• June 26-30 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th | Cost: $155
• Who doesn’t love animals? Spend a week as a zoologist in training. Learn more about, and see, all kinds of critters; from insects to tigers. Identify tracks, scat, and skulls to become a pro! Offered in partnership with ZooMontana.  
• Thursday drop-off and pick-up at ZooMontana. 

NEW! Fabulous Forest Friends

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 5-7 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Insects, birds, and mammals all call the forest home. Run through the trees looking for signs of these little critters...but make sure to keep your eyes open for the Bigfoots that also live here! 

Field Day

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 5-8 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th
• Cost: $155
• Capture the flag, canoe games, and relay races abound during this week of camp. Join us for a week of fun and games and great times!

Made in Nature

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center /summercamps
• July 5-7 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th & 6th-9th
• Cost: $155 
• (Combined ages) Craft your way through this week of camp as you discover how to use natural materials around you. From food to hand-made products, you’ll have plenty of projects to take home.

Sensational Senses

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 5-7 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Touch, taste, smell, listen, and see the natural world around you by using your 5 senses to explore. Learn what animals have sensational senses too!

Amazing Animal Adaptations

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 10-14 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Why do animals have wings, scales, tails, and claws? Explore different adaptations and learn how animals survive in their environment. Can you adapt?

Outdoor Survival

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 10-14 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 6th-9th | Cost: $155
• What are the odds you would survive if you were stranded in the wilderness? Learn how to pack, what to do in emergencies, how to build fires and shelters, and other survival basics. 

NEW! Summer In Color

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 10-14 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155 (Additional $25 fee for supplies)
• Art and the outdoors - inspiration can be found all around us! Learn tricks of the trade as we create works of art inside and outside. Each camper will take home art projects and a tote. 

Grow with the Flow

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 17-21 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• From tiny seeds, whacky weeds, and the biggest trees, campers will grow in their knowledge of plants this week. Dirty hands, plant yoga, and more awaits!  

Western Adventures

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 17-21 | 8:30am-4pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th & 6th-9th
• Cost: $275 (optional cookout, combined ages)
• It’s the wild west, y’all! Live and explore like Lewis and Clark: learn how to make fire, use compasses, and build shelters. Go back in time during Western Adventures! 
• Camp ends Friday at noon

Bug Out!

• Montana Audubon Center
• www.mtaudubon.org/center 
• July 24-28 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Explore the Center through the eyes of a bug. Roll over logs, scoop in the pond, and use bug nets to learn about the lives of these mini-beasts up close and in person. 

Nature's Kitchen

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 24-28 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th | Cost: $155
• Did you know that roses, pine trees, and some weeds are edible? Learn about and taste native, edible plants. Build your own recipe book this week as you make nature your kitchen. 

Summer in Color Art Camp

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps 
• July 24-28 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 3rd-5th
• Cost: $155*
• Fabulous, Fun, Field Studies! Art and outdoors, can you think of a better combo? Learn tricks of the trade as we create works of art inside and out! Each camper will take home an art kit with various supplies and tote. 
• *Additional $25 fee for take-home supplies 

Bogs, Frogs, & Polliwogs

• Montana Audubon Center
• www.mtaudubon.org/center |
• July 31-Aug 4 | 12:30-4pm
• Grades: Entering K-2nd | Cost: $155
• Some animals are plenty happy in slimy, wet, and muddy places. Get to know and search for your friendly neighborhood amphibians!

Campfire Cook Off

• Montana Audubon Center
• mtaudubon.org/center/summercamps
• July 31-Aug 4 | 8:30am-12pm
• Grades: Entering 6th-9th | Cost: $155
• If you love to eat, join us for an adventurous week of outdoor cooking and foraging skills. Show off your newly learned skills during our camp cook-off. May the best chef win!  

TRAILBLAZER CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• June 18-26 & July 9-14 | Grades: 3rd-5th
• Adventurers in Trailblazer Camp will experience YAA in its full glory through shooting down the zipline, competing in crazy camp games, fun worship songs, and amazing cabins and counselors. This week is guaranteed to be one for the books!

"Fire" Day CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• June 19-23 OR June 26-30 
• Grades: 1st-4th
• Explore fire through scavenger hunts, fire building, snacks, and much more! Alongside fire-themed activities and adventures, campers will participate in activities such as Hover Ball, ropes course, and scavenger hunts.

EXPLORER CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• 2 Sessions Available | Grades 6th-8th
• Session 1: June 25-30
• Session 2: July 16-21
• This week takes camp to the NEXT LEVEL through new activities, riveting competitions, impactful worship sessions, and our exceptional counseling team. Campers will be immersed in fun and challenge as they engage with cabinmates, try new things, and learn about Jesus. Register now for a week that will never be forgotten.

ARCHERY CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• July 2-7 | Grades: 7th-9th
• Nock, Aim, Fire! Archery adventurers will spend 4 days with our expert archer learning archery basics and tips, shooting, and growing a deeper relationship with Jesus.

BASE CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• July 2-7 | Grades: 6th-8th 
• In this introductory wilderness experience, Base Camp adventurers will spend 5 nights in the Gallatin National Forest. Whether it’s a day trip hike or wilderness training around camp this is an opportunity to have fun, learn, and enjoy God’s beautiful creation in the Gallatin National Forest.
• YAA is permitted for outfitting and guiding in the Gallatin National Forest.

ROOKIE CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• July 4-7 | Grades: 2nd-4th
• YAA’s youngest overnight adventurers maximize FUN and ADVENTURE in 4 packed, full days. Zipline, archery, food, field games, challenges, chapel, goofy songs, and much, much more! Whether this is your first overnight camp or you’re a seasoned pro, our marvelous team of counselors will take good care of you and make your week special.

Water Day CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• July 10-14 OR July 17-21 | Grades: 1st-4th
• With water-themed games, lessons, and snacks campers will have a water-ful time! Campers will also take part in introductory YAA camp activities, songs, skits, and games.

Adventure Day CAMP

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• July 24-28 | Grades: 1st-5th
• Adventure Day Camp will take campers into unbelievable wonder as they discover all nature and Creation have to offer. This camp will be focused on outdoor play and discovery. 

Outbound Adventure

• Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | Bozeman, MT
• www.yaacamp.org | 406-763-4727
• Aug 1-6 | Grades: 9th-12th 
• This wilderness experience will take high school adventures to new heights (literally)! Campers will be challenged to learn new things, work as a team, and see God and creation from a different perspective. Take a week to UNPLUG and engage in the stunning mountains God created in Southwest Montana.  
• YAA is permitted for outfitting and guiding in the Gallatin National Forest.

Originally printed in the March 2023 issue of Simply Local Magazine

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