Camp Tonkawa | Summer Camp & Outdoor Learning TX

ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION

earth day should be every day!

Arbor Day in Texas is the first Friday in November, and Earth Day is officially April 22... but it's always a great time to plant trees! Come celebrate the trees, learn their benefits, and help plant for the future.

custom dates

Call to schedule

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Flexible hours!

GROUPS / TROOPS

Great for field trips

free w/ tree

Or $5 without tree

Pricing & Tree Donations

admission cost:

FREE with a Tree Donation!
$5 per person without a tree donation.

group scheduling

This event can be set up as a Class Field Trip, a private/public school outing, or for Scout Troops! We can schedule this at any time of the year that works best for your group.

TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS

Feel free to donate a tree at any time of the year! Just ask us for a Donation Letter.

Celebration Agenda & Activities

The following agenda is typical for our 10:00am to 3:00pm schedule (but can be adjusted for what works best for your group!):

10:15 AM — Welcome to our woods. Thanksgiving to the TREES!
10:30 AM — History of Arbor Day & Camp Songs
11:00 AM — HUG A TREE: A wilderness survival technique lesson
11:30 AM — How old is that tree? How tall is that tree? Followed by Story Time (Great books about trees and nature).
12:00 PM — Picnic Lunches (Bring your own!)
12:30 PM — Lesson: How, where, and when to plant a tree
1:00 PM— Tree Planting Begins!
Afterwards — Nature Poetry. We would love your contributions—bring a special poem you like or wrote yourself!

The 'Adopt a Tree' Initiative

A MESSAGE FROM CAMP DIRECTOR CHIPCP

(Chipco means "Tree Hugger"!)

Her goal is to raise trees of many varieties to eventually use as teaching tools at the camp. For example, when we learn about the Catalpa tree, we can someday climb in her branches, put the flowers on our fingertips, and watch the caterpillars defoliate it while providing us with fish bait!

We love the Post Oaks, Cedar Elm, and Juniper Red Cedars that forest the woods at the camp, but we ask families, scout troops, and school classes to ADOPT A TREE of different varieties.

HOW TO HELP

A "Family Tree" can be donated individually.
For larger, more expensive trees, get your entire scout troop or homeschool co-op to pitch in together!
We can suggest specific varieties we need—we hope you will purchase them and plant them with us at camp.
Note: Trees planted in the pasture areas will also need protective rings built around them to protect them from being eaten by the horses!

Scouting Badges Covered

This event is highly recommended for troops!

scout troops:

The curriculum is perfectly set up for troops working on their Woods or Forestry badges!

service projects:

Donating and planting trees counts as an excellent community service project.

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