Nature is our ultimate inspiration and shared connection, it is present in all programs-through games, stories, songs, play, creativity, and craft!
Soulcraft kids
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Join us in the forest and fields for adventure, craft and creating, and wild fun! We will celebrate our beautiful Autumn forests with shelter building, wild foods and feasting, games, and more!
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Who: adventurous kids ages 6-15*older teens who would like to assist as mentors can also join us!
Dates: Thurs Oct 15 and Friday Oct 16, 9am-2pm each day Cost: $100-$130 sliding scale *see details below **if you are a part of the regular Friday classes, you can join in on Thursday for half the price! Register here! Soulcraft Adventures are a fun combination of forest play and folk craft. We offer lots of activities to choose from each day, and always make sure to spend time in the deep forest, having fires for meals and including other nature play and challenge!
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Wild Earth Adventures
We are very excited to jump into our ongoing Friday classes for alternative schoolers starting September 2026!!!
Wild Earth Adventures is an 11 week class we will be exploring, adventuring, making, harvesting, eating, playing, and learning about all the Autumn in Southern Indiana has to offer.
This includes getting very nutty at times with acorns, gingkos, hickories, walnuts and more- and expanding what we can do with them and other wild edibles plants!
This 11 weeks will include a few field trips to some of our favorite places, including our local Mud Banana spot; and an overnight to get to fully immerse all day and night with the Earth in Autumn!
A few examples of skills we will be doing:
This includes getting very nutty at times with acorns, gingkos, hickories, walnuts and more- and expanding what we can do with them and other wild edibles plants!
This 11 weeks will include a few field trips to some of our favorite places, including our local Mud Banana spot; and an overnight to get to fully immerse all day and night with the Earth in Autumn!
A few examples of skills we will be doing:
- finishing the other half of our AMAZING PRIMITIVE SHELTER, so we can sleep in it if we choose!
- making acorn cheese, eating dinosaur beans, gingko snacks and more!
- primitive pit cooking and clay baking
- making a powerful plant medicines so we can stay healthy!
- learning the ancient art of coal carrying over long time and space, and other fire skills!
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We will meet at Soulcraft Bloomington except for our field trip days! Dates: September 4-November 14; Fridays 9:30-2:30pm (11 weeks) Cost: $385-495 full session (sliding scale*) Kids: 6-15yrs |
*A note on our Sliding Scale Fees: We offer the sliding scale as a means of allowing you to self-scholarship, as needed. We leave it entirely up to you to select your point on the scale, and ask you to recognize that the true cost of running the program is approximately in the middle. We count on your integrity in selecting your rate: when you choose a higher amount, you are making it possible for someone of lesser means to pay a lower tuition. In this way, we are working together to help keep the program affordable.
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Chickadees in autumnplus an overnight!!
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Chickadees in Autumn
A day and night full of the wonder of nature, art and craft -celebrating gorgeous Autumn in Southern Indiana! Make new friends and visit with old ones too! Dates Coming Soon!
6-14 year olds Location: Soulcraft Bloomington Cost: $75-$100 per child Registration coming soon! |
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*A note on our Sliding Scale Fees: We offer the sliding scale as a means of allowing you to self-scholarship, as needed. We leave it entirely up to you to select your point on the scale, and ask you to recognize that the true cost of running the program is approximately in the middle. We count on your integrity in selecting your rate: when you choose a higher amount, you are making it possible for someone of lesser means to pay a lower tuition. In this way, we are working together to help keep the program affordable.
a few past class examples below...
Tales of Migration:
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People, birds, and animals have all migrated to different places in changing seasons throughout history. What causes this migration? Why do some stay and some choose to leave? Do birds or animals ever take things with them like humans do while migrating? How do they find shelter, food, or medicine while on the move? How do they know when they are home or are they like turtles, carrying home on their back all the time?
Join us on an adventure through time, exploring nomadic vs stationary life through the lens of humans, birds, and animals. We will get to create shelters for ourselves, along with helpful tools that humans have used for travel for thousands of years. We will learn from the birds and animals that migrate long distances, to see how they survive and make wherever they are a temporary home until they reach their final destination.
Along with building and creating there is always lots of playing games, exploring and adventuring!
Join us on an adventure through time, exploring nomadic vs stationary life through the lens of humans, birds, and animals. We will get to create shelters for ourselves, along with helpful tools that humans have used for travel for thousands of years. We will learn from the birds and animals that migrate long distances, to see how they survive and make wherever they are a temporary home until they reach their final destination.
Along with building and creating there is always lots of playing games, exploring and adventuring!
Fun with HErps!
Herpetology Class: the study of amphibians and reptiles
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Spring Peepers wake up all their friends and announce the end of Winter and early Spring already in late February and early March! Only a few weeks later the American Toads begin singing each night! They also wake up all the nature lovers and herpetologists, telling us a flurry of activity will be starting very soon! Salamanders, frogs, toads, turtles and more, start moving around and very quickly look for friends and mates to start new cycles of life. We'll start to see lots of tadpoles appearing and salamanders moving about, and toads mating like crazy!
This class is an in-depth study of the amazing bio-diversity we have in Monroe County, specifically the high numbers of amphibians and reptiles. We will study the ones that live in our area and learn their songs, behaviours, and habitats. We will see how many we can find and collect data on- do they seem healthy, what size are they, who are they, what habitat are they found in, and more! We will learn how to create healthy habitat for these important ecological indicator species. We will also have a number of field trips, meeting in different locations that host lots of these special creatures.
This class is an in-depth study of the amazing bio-diversity we have in Monroe County, specifically the high numbers of amphibians and reptiles. We will study the ones that live in our area and learn their songs, behaviours, and habitats. We will see how many we can find and collect data on- do they seem healthy, what size are they, who are they, what habitat are they found in, and more! We will learn how to create healthy habitat for these important ecological indicator species. We will also have a number of field trips, meeting in different locations that host lots of these special creatures.