Wildcrafternoons

🌿 Wildcrafternoons is a weekly outdoor program, located at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes, and is intentionally designed for homeschooling and unschooling families with children ages 5 and up. Whether attending regularly or occasionally dropping-in, children will enjoy opportunities to learn, create, play, and grow in connection with our living landscape.

🌿 Each week, we'll gather in the outdoor classroom to explore hands-on projects or concepts that encourage connection with natural materials, local flora fauna and ecosystems, and the seasons. Through these activities, kids engage with their surroundings, various hand tools and materials, and their own imagination in ways that foster creativity, curiosity, and care for nature. Each session balances collaborative discussion, guided craft time, and open exploration, encouraging young learners to learn valuable skills while deepening their relationship with the natural world.

🌿 Some of our planned activities include:

• 🌱 Gardening
• 🧵 Weaving cordage
• 📜 Papermaking
• 📚 Bookbinding
• 📓 Nature journaling
• 🍃 Eco-printing
• 🔬 Microscopy
• 🧺 Rush basket weaving
• 🍂 Nature collages
• 🐝 Building bug hotels
• 🐞 Insect observation & sketching
• 🌸 Flower pressing
• and more! ✨

All activities are flexibly designed and entirely optional; children are invited to participate, observe, or engage at their own pace. To accommodate for shyness, low energy, varied skill levels, and other needs, there will be alternative activities available; and sometimes, it's just nice to just be in nature in a calm space with community.

🌿 Participants should bring:

• A water bottle, lunch or a snack, and clothing layers suitable for changing weather.
• Optional: a picnic blanket or cushion for more comfortable crafting time.
• Activity materials: children may be asked to bring something from home for certain activities such as paper making, seed saving, basket weaving, etc.

🌿Who is your facilitator?

Wildcrafternoons is led by Èské [ess-keh] Addams, a California Naturalist and outdoor nature-based educator. Èské weaves together years of experience in nature connection, hands-on learning, and unschooling facilitation. With a focus on care and connection with nature, Èské guides young learners in exploring our natural world, nature-based skills and crafts, and natural relationships and wisdom.

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🌿Registration:

• Maximum 10 participants per session, so reserve your child's spot soon!
• This program uses an expanded sliding scale based on the model.
• We recognize that income bracket doesn’t always reflect financial ability, and all children deserve access to quality programming regardless of financial privilege.
• We've crafted each tier to reflect the labor, materials, and expertise that goes into each session, while also considering that participants come from varying financial circumstances and privilege.
• Families are invited to choose the amount that feels right for you, to pay what you can within your means, and to contribute generously toward accessibility if you are able.
• No questions asked, no justification needed, and no one turned away for lack of funds.

🌿Important Notes:

• All attendees must remain on designated paths; we will not be exploring the creek or garden beds with our feet.
• There are livestock and wildlife onsite, so we ask that visitors keep their pets at home. Service dogs on leash are permitted

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Fibershed Learning Center, 14000 Point Reyes - Petaluma Road, Point Reyes Station, United States

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