Wilderness After-School Programs in Santa Cruz area

Wilderness After-School Programs on Northern California Coast 2011-2012 After-School Program Offerings
After-School Archery Pre-Teen/Teens Dates and times: Fridays 3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry Prerequisites: None Location; Santa Cruz, CA Open to: Preteens and Teens Cost: 15/hr Archery is a disaplin that can be practiced a lifetime. WSI Our dirctor is a US Archer Community Coach focuses all of our archery programs on establishing good solid fundamentials in archery form bringing the same teachings that the US Olympic Coach KiSik Lee has theUS World team follow. As the archer develops it is our goal that along this jouny will never have to relearn any thing.. WSI supports 3 different Archery Disciplines, Field Archery, Target Olympic Archery, and 3D Archery having good solid form will make for good solid shooting in all three of these disciplines for a life time. For a more complete description of our Field Archery, Target Olympic Archery, and 3D Archery programs check our archery page.




After-School Blacksmithing Skills Pre-Teen/Teen Dates and times: Thursday3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry Prerequisites: None Location; Santa Cruz, CA Open to: Preteens and Teens Cost: 15/hr The participents will use heat to shape and temper steel to make tools and articals of every day life using the tools and practices of the 1800s.
After-School Ancesterial Crafts Pre-Teen/Teen Dates and times:Thursday3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry Open entry Prerequisites: None Location; Santa Cruz, CA Open to: Preteens and Teens Cost: 15/hr Go back to a time when objects of everyday life were objects of art and pride. Go back to a time when there was no zip lock bags, Tupperware, cardboard boxes, plastic buckets, plastic combs, brushes, eating utensils, synthetic fiber, rope, or fabric, or acrylic paint. Go back to a time when we used baskets, pottery, and canteens made with tulles, clay, rawhide and leather. When we combed our hair, put on our shoes, ate our meals with object made of wood, bone, or horn. When we used plant and animal fibers for clothing, cordage, or rope. When we used soil, plants, and animals for dyes and pigments.
After-Shool Nature Dates and times: Tuesday3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry Prerequisites: None Location; Santa Cruz, CA Open to: Preteens and Teens Cost: 15/hr Each day the participants take a short hike into our base camp in a privately owned pristine redwood forest for supervised undirected free play and exploration in the trees and along the creek. The participants will be introduced to the core routines of deep nature connection including Wandering and Sit Spot, Story Telling, Music, and Journaling, Expanding Senses and awareness, Questioning and Tracking, Animal Forms, Mapping, Exploring Field Guides and science-based natural history, thanksgiving, primal crafts.