Summer Camps!
All brains are beautiful — they just need the right support in order to thrive. Join our therapy intensive summer camps and let your child blossom, grow connections with peers, and work towards goals helping your family flourish!
When?
2025 dates
Summer Camps:
Camp Food Explorers - June 2-6, daily, 3-6pm
to address picky eating
Camp BugBrave - August 11-15, daily, 3-6pm
to address bug fears
Summer Weekly Groups & Garden Club:
June 9 – August 1, weekly 2-5 pm or 3-6pm
(off June 30 - July 4)
to address a variety of individualized goals
*Since we have such small groups, we are often able to adjust the schedule around families’ needs. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you can’t make these times work!
What & Where?
How big?
Only 4 – 5 kids per camp
Led by experienced pediatric occupational therapists
1:1 or 1:2 staff:child ratio
Ages 4 and up
Where do you meet?
Local parks throughout the gorgeous Rochester, MN area
What your child will get to do.
Think of this as “half normal summer camp, half intensive therapy.”
Imagine hiking, swimming, exploring the woods, digging in the mud, playing games, catching bugs… utilized to work on individual goals!
(Obviously, the specifics of what we do will vary based on what kids find wonderful, and best supports their therapeutic progress!)
Each season, we’ll choose a couple specific skills for your kid to work on — and they’ll get so many chances to work on them!
What you’ll get.
Every day, you’ll get an update over email, letting you know what the group did and what skills we worked on… along with fun photos!
The Camps
Camp BugBrave:
Embrace the Outdoors!
August 11-15, 2025
3-6pm
Ages 5-16
(1:2 staff support)
Does your child's fear of bugs and sensory defensiveness limit their enjoyment of nature? Let us help!
How it works:
1. Gentle Exposure: Experienced pediatric occupational therapists follow a relationship-based approach to attend to each child's cues and ensure they feel safe and comfortable as they learn new skills.
2. Sensory Strategies: We teach techniques to manage tactile sensitivity and other sensory needs, enhancing comfort and confidence in nature and everyday life.
3. FUN! Play is a child's primary "job" and we make sure to incorporate it into all we do to ensure that children can engage with nature and each other joyfully!
Result:
Campers leave BugBrave more adventurous outdoors and equipped with skills to navigate a wide variety of sensory challenges in their daily lives!
Camp Food Explorers:
Playful Food Adventures!
June 2-6, 2025
3-6pm
Ages 5-16
(1:2 staff support)
(may be older with a developmental level in the above age range)
Do you have a young picky eater? Are mealtimes a battle that you and your child dread? Is their list of preferred foods shrinking? Let us help!
How it works:
1. Gentle Food Adventures: There are SO many ways to get to know a new food! Guided by an experienced pediatric occupational therapists, campers will engage in creative PLAY with a wide variety of foods that stimulate their senses without overwhelming them.
2. Responsive Strategies: By carefully following each child's cues, we create a safe and supportive environment where children feel empowered to interact with new foods without pressure.
3. Bringing the fun home: Through daily emails, we'll share the strategies we use in camp to help with carryover to home, so the child can keep learning about new foods in their daily life too.
Result:
Campers leave Food Explorers with an enhanced curiosity about new foods, greater willingness to interact with them, and the tools to approach mealtime with more confidence and delight!
How?
1: Connect
We’ll have a free consultation to see if our camps will be a good fit.
2: Intake
I’ll walk you through the paperwork — we’ll do the hard parts!
3: Evaluate
Your occupational therapist will meet you and your child in your home, and we’ll start figuring out their therapy goals.
4: Collaborate
You and your child start understanding what’s holding them back from success!
I’m Interested!
One last question
What’s the difference between your camps & other nature-based summer camps, like Quarry Hill?
We LOVE the camps that places like Quarry Hill and Miss Angie’s Place offer. Our camps are a superpowered version of those. See this post to learn more. We provide your child with the support they need to work through challenges, be successful, and progress toward individual goals, even on the hard days!
Cost
$675 per kid per camp
HSA eligible services
CDCS provider
Sign us up!
Spots are limited — just click the button below to complete the interest form, and we’ll get back to you promptly to figure out if this might be a fantastic fit for your kid.