Summer Day Camp 2026
🏹🌲☀️ Wilderness Archery Summer Camp for Ages 9–13
Outdoor Adventure Camp | Fonthill, Ontario | Limited to 15 Students Per Week
🌲🔥 Let Them Learn the Ways of the Wild
Leave the screens behind — this is a camp where your child will walk the land, shoot the bow, spark fire from steel, and learn the ancient skills of survival.
At Barefoot Bushcraft, our 100% outdoor day camp helps youth reconnect with nature, develop real-world skills, and build confidence that lasts long after summer ends.
📍 Camp Location
Barefoot Bushcraft
1874 Highway 20, Fonthill, Ontario
(near the Allanburg Bridge)
Cost: $270.00/wk (includes HST and T-Shirt)
📅 2026 Summer Camp Dates (Ages 9–13)
July 13 – 17
July 27 – 31
August 10 – 14
August 17 – 21
⛔ Strictly limited to 15 students per week. Spots fill quickly.
Primitive Skills, Canoe Garden, Wandering, Opening Owl Pellets, and Thanksgiving.
🛠️ What Your Child Will Experience
Our Wilderness Archery Camp offers a mix of fun, challenge, and hands-on outdoor education:
🏹 Archery Training – stance, focus, aim, and instinctive shooting
🔥 Fire-Making – with flint, steel, and ferro rods
🪓 Axe & Knife Throwing – supervised and skill-based
🌲 Bushcraft & Survival Skills – shelters, knots, and tool safety
🦉 Open Owl Pellet Dissection – learn animal biology through exploration
💦 Sponge War Finale – fun, teamwork, and laughter to close the week
🌿 Nature Immersion – wandering, canoe garden, and cultural connection
👣 Barefoot-Friendly Environment – freedom and grounding encouraged
“This is not daycare in the woods — it’s a week of becoming something more.”
Ages: 9 – 13yrs
🛡️ Age Requirement & Safety
Ages 9–13 only
Camp activities require maturity, focus, and coordination
Staff are trained in outdoor education and child safety
All gear provided
Our camps will have your student of 9 years and up learn many bushcraft and outdoor skills each week!:
📝 How to Register
Click below to reserve your child’s spot before sessions fill up:
- Begin Canoe Garden project; will prepare canoe and plant pollinator plants
- Dissect owl pellets; learn about hunting lifestyle, anatomy of owls, hands on activity
- Introduction to animal fur, bones, etc through hands-on interactive games
- Learn how to drive and operate real tractor with front end loader
- Fishing in the Welland Canal
- Muddiest Camper competition
- Weaving paracord bracelets
- Crafts; learn about natural cycles through sensory based games and create take-home crafts
- Wilderness Skills; fire building, knife skills, archery and axe throwing, shelter building
- Adventure Walk; 5km day long walk to local Splash pad, short ferry ride, ice cream included
- Continue Canoe Garden project: introduce vegetable planting
- Weaving paracord bracelets
- Muddiest Camper competition
- Learn how to drive and operate real tractor with front end loader
- Dissect owl pellets; learn about hunting lifestyle, anatomy of owls
- Introduction to animal fur, bones, etc through hands-on interactive games
- Fishing in the Welland Canal
- Citizen Science project along the Welland Canal; focus on water quality and aquatic insects
- Crafts/ Games; learn about natural cycles through sensory based games and create take-home crafts
- Wilderness Skills; fire building, knife skills, archery and axe throwing, shelter building
- Adventure Walk; 5km day long walk to local Splash pad, short ferry ride, ice cream included
- Continue Canoe Garden project: focus on vegetable planting
- Learn how to drive and operate real tractor with front end loader
- Muddiest Camper competition
- Continue growing and harvesting of wild mushrooms
- Introduction to animal fur, bones, etc through hands-on interactive games
- Fishing in the Welland Canal
- Weaving paracord bracelets
- Crafts/ Games; learn about natural cycles through sensory based games, scavenger hunts for species identification, and create take-home crafts
- Wilderness Skills; fire building, knife skills, archery and axe throwing, shelter building
- Adventure Walk; 5km day long walk to local Splash pad, short ferry ride, ice cream included
- Continue Canoe Garden project: focus on vegetable planting, harvesting
- Continue raising tadpoles to frogs; observe early changes and care for tadpoles
- Introduce Nightsky observations; learn about patterns in night-sky, orientation, and weather through play-based activities and discussions
- Weaving paracord bracelets
- Introduction to animal fur, bones, etc through hands-on interactive games
- Fishing in the Welland Canal
- Learn how to drive and operate real tractor with front end loader
- Crafts/ Games; learn about natural cycles through sensory based games, scavenger hunts for species identification, and create take-home crafts
- Wilderness Skills; fire building, knife skills, archery and axe throwing, shelter building
- Adventure Walk; 5km day long walk to local Splash pad, short ferry ride, ice cream included
🌲 Let Your Child Step Into the Wild
Unplug. Unleash. Reconnect.
This summer, give your child something real:
A week outdoors learning archery, building fires, making shelters, and walking barefoot on the land.
At Barefoot Bushcraft, we don’t do plastic crafts or cafeteria trays. We teach ancient skills, encourage freedom, and build confidence through nature connection and real adventure.
“They came home dirty, tired, and proud — and couldn’t stop talking about it.”
💰 Camp Details & Pricing
- 💵 Cost: $270.00 per week
- 👨👩👧👦 Sibling Discount: $15 off each child (use code:
SIBLINGDISCOUNT) - ⏰ Camp Times: 09:00 – 16:00 (4pm)
- 🚗 Drop-off begins at 08:00 ($10/hr early care)
🏃♀️ Late pick-up until 18:00 ($10/hr late care)- 🧑🏫 Led by skilled outdoor instructors
- 👕 Camp T-shirt included
- 🥪 Supervised lunch time
- 🌙 Friday Late-Night Potluck with family participation
- 📝 All students must complete waiver & application form
- ❌ No refunds once registered
Please remember to send your student with:
- A litter free lunch and snacks, no nut products,
- Refillable water bottle, we provide water
- Water resistant boots, extra socks, as well as flip-flops, sandals or crocs
- Label all items and dress accordingly for the weather
Friday
- Camp runs late
- Parent participation
- Pot-Luck Supper
Students building fort / shelters in the woods
DAY CAMP FORMS
Camp Welcome Package .pdf [Click Here To Download]
Summer Camp Packing List .pdf [Click Here To Download]
REFUNDS: Due to the fixed costs of camp including staff wages, supplies, insurance, etc. No refunds are given on camp fees.
Day Camp is strictly limited to 15 students per week
Use Code: SIBLINGDISCOUNT To get $15.00 off each child (A $30.00 discount in total) when registering two or more students!
Register Early as weeks are strictly limited to 15 students!
Camp is Pre-Paid: There is no wait list