Cultivation Crew Seedlings: Kids Garden Series - Ages 7 - 12 (Partially Virtual)
Hartman Reserve Nature Center, Black Hawk County
Monday, June 15, 2020
Does your little have a green thumb? Enroll your kids in the Cultivation Crew: by the summer’s end, they’ll have grown garden veggies, flowers, and indoor herbs! They’ll learn how to compost, how to grow plants from scraps and not just seeds, encourage pollinators, earn points for journal entries and get entered into prize raffles in August for their own gardening supplies.
Each session listed below is a bi-weekly curriculum that will help you guide your child in learning about gardening and ecosystems. You will receive information and activities to be completed at home. You will also come to the Nature Center on select days to complete projects that will emphasize the topic area of that session.
**This is not a regular camp and is designed to be mostly virtual. In person times will be emailed to you. A parent is allowed to stay with, and must stay with, the child during this camp. Masks are required.
Kids Gardening Series
Session 1: In the Dirt : June 15th - June 28th
Session 2: The Other Guys : June 29th - July 12th
Session 3: Pollinatin' : July 13th - 26th
Session 4: Cherry on Top : July 27- Aug. 9th
Session 5: Wrap Up: August 9th - 16th
This session is for kids 7 - 12.
**The cost of this program is for the ENTIRE series.
New Program
Policies
- All registrations must be done online and no walk-ins will
be accepted. If you need assistance in
registering for programs online, please call the nature center and we will help
you.
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Prior to the first day of camp all appropriate waivers,
registration materials and Covid-19 waiver must be completed by a parent or guardian
and turned into the nature center.
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Each day program participants will have a temperature check
and be asked symptomatic questions regarding Covid -19 symptoms prior to
signing in at the program site.
- Any
participant that is symptomatic or has a fever of 100.4 or higher will not be
permitted to stay for the program.
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Program staff will greet you upon arrival, provide sign-in sheet
and escort your child to the program area.
We ask that parents do not come into the nature center.
- We will provide
sign-in/sign-out in a designated area outside the building. (Pens will be
sanitized between uses) Hand sanitizer
will be available upon entering the building (child[ren]).
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Only registered children will be allowed to stay for programs.
No visitors will be allowed at this time.
- If your child requires 1-1 assistance, please call the nature center
prior to registering online so that we can ensure that we are maintaining
social distancing guidelines and make the appropriate accommodations.
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Each program participant will be required to bring a mask
from home with them to the program.
- All
participants and staff are REQUIRED
wear a mask at all times while in the building.
- If the program participant
refuses to wear the mask while inside the building, a parent will be called and
the child(ren) will have to be picked up immediately (if this should occur, no
refunds will be given) and not allowed to continue participating in the
program.
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Each program participant will have a designated area where
they keep their personal belongings, which will be separated from other
participant belongings.
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During all programs, participants will be asked to Social
Distance and every effort will be made to keep participants 6 feet apart when
they are outside where masks are not required.
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After each activity, participants will be required to wash
their hands, and every effort will be made to limit sharing of tools and
supplies.
- Program tools and spaces will
be sanitized at the end of each program, once participants have left the
facility.
- The nature center restrooms will be the only areas open to
the public, and frequently touched surfaces will be cleaned and sanitized
multiple times per day.
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Water fountains will be closed, and participants will be able
to use sinks to refill water bottles.
If a program participant refuses to follow the above guidelines, they
will not be allowed to stay at the program, and a parent or guardian will be
called to pick them up from the facility. If this occurs, no refunds will be
given.
