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March Break Bug Camp is a Science and Nature camp that explores the wonderful and exciting world of Animals.
Children will experience an array of ‘Science’ opportunities while focusing on our vast collection of touchable live animal specimens including exotic insects, reptiles, amphibians, arachnids and others, as well as other 'crazy science and technology' explorations.
‘Bug Campers’ will learn how to identify an insect from other arthropods, investigate how and what insects eat, where they live, and what benefit they are in our shared world.
Oh, and how do you get a skeleton on the outside your body anyway? How does it grow? What is metamorphosis? Which insects metamorphose? How do you tell the kids apart from the adults?
Imagine:
- Slimming and sliding with an African Giant Snail,
- Hissing with a Giant Cockroach,
- Snuggling with a Giant Millipede,
- Camouflaging with a Giant Stick Insect,
- Stalking a Tarantula,
- Jumping with a lizard and,
- Radiating with a Scorpion, can you handle more?
Join us for a fun and adventurous Bug Camp experience.
 Download March Break
Registration Form
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Fees + Details
This exciting camp is offered for one week during the month of March, at St. Leonard's Anglican Church, 25 Wanless Avenue, (Yonge St. and Lawrence Ave.)
The fee is $136.00/four half-day sessions: Tuesday-Friday AM or PM.
The acceptable ages are from 4 years to 13 years old.
Enrolment is limited, so please register early.
*Please view our March Break registration form including a ‘details’ page before signing up your child.
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Summer Bug Camp
This is a Science and Nature camp that explores the wonderful and exciting world of Animals.
This camp is offered to ages 4 years old through to 13 years old.
Bug Campers will learn about insects through a variety of hands-on
experiments/activities, while using their senses to explore the living
and non-living parts of an ecosystem, as well as discovering the role
other organisms play in “their” ecosystem.
Download the Summer Bug Camp
Registration Form
New “CSI Entomology”
Summer Bug Camp
“CSI Entomology” is a new and exciting program included in
Summer Bug Camp that involves investigation, discovery, Insects, and the skills
of a good detective.
Bug Campers will investigate where different Forensic Insects
lay their eggs and why, microscopically examine the different stages of insect
development, and obtain all the evidence needed to solve a crime…all in a
week’s work. This program is open to children ages 8 years and older, and
will run weekly for only two weeks in the afternoons of July 19-23 and July
26-30, 2010.
Please Note: You may sign up for our regular Bug Camp during those weeks,
but the afternoon session is when the CSI program will run.
Download the CSI Summer Bug Camp Registration Form
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Fees + Details
This exciting summer Bug Camp is offered weekly for 7 weeks during the months of July and August. Each week is different, so children may sign up for multiple sessions.
The location is finalized at the end of March, but it is always stationed around the Yonge St. and Lawrence area in a local school.
The cost is $170.00 for a week of Half days AM or PM, or $385.00 for a week of Full days.
This camp is offered to ages 4 years old through to 13 years old.
*Please view summer bug camp registration form including a ‘details’ page before signing up your child.
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What happens at Bug Camp?
In our weekly Bug Camp program, campers experience all aspects of Science, from the Animal Kingdom to the Plant Kingdom to show how everything is related in one way or another.
What do insects and other animals feel like? Why do they each have a unique texture, and how does that help them survive in the wild?
How many different kinds of insects are there? Where do they live? What do they eat? What good are they anyway?
How do you get a skeleton on the outside of your body? How does it grow? What is metamorphosis? How can you tell the difference between a male and a female animal?
What kinds of animals eat insects? What insects do ‘people’ munch on… and why? How and where do insects hide from their predators? How do we use insect predators to control insect pests?
What are social insects? How are their colonies organized? How do they communicate with each other? How do some social insects pollinate flowers? How do insects and plants "socialize" with each other? Is it true that some even dance?
Visit fields and local ponds to observe and collect insects, crayfish, frogs, tadpoles, and other aquatic fauna while also participating in hands-on, laboratory exercises using insects and other animals as models to learn a broad range of biological, ecological and environmental topics.
Meet and greet new and interesting presenters that showcase their unique and exotic animals, as well as well as presenting all kinds of ‘weird’ science through different hands-on workshops.
Design and create your own animals using a variety of construction materials, or learn how to make your very own science experiments with liquids, solids and gases. We’ll play different animal games and read cool animal stories.
Too much fun and too little time…of course we can’t tell you everything that happens at Bug Camp, so come and experience it for yourself.
It’s a great opportunity to get started on an amazing insect collection, meet new and exciting people that are interested in the same things you are, learn fascinating and weird facts from the experts and most of all, have a FUN and ADVENTEROUS time with all the animals big and small!
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