We are excited to welcome children ages 6-12 to our farm in Guilford, Vermont to participate in an immersive, nature-based camp that invites kids to intimately explore their surroundings by engaging all their senses. Children will spend their days participating in activities at our forest treehouse tent and on the farm.
Children will be offered the chance to take part in Earth-friendly activities including but not limited to
gardening
farm chores
flower tending
cooking in our outdoor forest kitchen
small building projects
music making
chicken care
art
exploration
games
growing interpersonal relationships in a nurturing environment
& MORE!
Summer 2025
Creature Creations
July 7-11
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
After two seasons of offering camp we’ve learned it’s the power of emergent creative energy that really jazzes us up. We love setting a loose framework for the day whereas kids can choose from a myriad of creative activities that involve curiosity, movement, play and making. We are are going to focus our energies on what we humans can make, using our hands and hearts.
Each day at Creature Creations we will turn our focus to the energy of creativity. This may include cooking in our forest kitchen, herbal alchemy through making salves, building chicken infrastructure, making an adventure playground, making skits, writing songs, building obstacle courses and much, more more!
Have you ever wanted to build a fairy house water wheel and electrify it with simple circuitry? Would you be interested in creating land art installations around the farm using materials found in nature? Have you made a homemade slip & slide? Do you like tactile projects that get your mind and creativity flowing together? This is the camp for you.
Please note if you want more time with chickens this is the camp for you! We will have baby chicks during this camp week. We will also spend time with our beloved laying hens and hopefully construct fancy laying boxes for them! .
Flower Club August 4-8
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Meandering through fields of flowers is a very special experience that serves as an invitation for making magic together. We’ll let the fancy of the flowers guide us throughout our days as we create art with flowers, play, wander in the orchard, spend time with animals, all the while growing our relationships with each other and all the life at Tapalou.
We’ll find ourselves tending the gardens, harvesting food and flowers, making floral fairy houses in the forest, weaving wreaths, dyeing eggs with flowers, and natural dyes, making floral prints, and playing.
We’ll engage our senses through smelling and eating edible flowers, steeping fresh teas in the sun and sipping them, making flower concoctions.
We’ll harvest food, prepare it, and cook it over a fire in our outdoor forest kitchen.
In the afternoon we’ll work with the flowers we have harvested making beautiful arrangements, mandalas, flower prints, crowns, dried flower clouds and other artistic delights.
Camp leaders
Views from Past camp tapalou Experiences
Registration & Payment
Camp Tapalou is available on a sliding scale of $300-$450 for the week.
We have one full scholarship available for each session this year. Please email us at TapalouGuilds@gmail.com for more info.
If you would like to donate to our scholarship please click on the donate button below. We have two full scholarships that we are offering and will use donated funds to partially fund other campers.
Please follow the instructions below to register.
Pay non-refundable $100 deposit HERE.
Complete Camper Registration Form (sent after deposit is paid)
Pay remainder of balance in one or two installments no later than four weeks before camp start date (more info in Camper Registration form)