July & August 2026
Summer Camps 2026
Atlan Forest • White Salmon, Washington
Heartsong Living Arts Summer Camp is more than just a camp; it’s a living experience rooted in nature immersion, storytelling, craft, and wilderness skills—nurtured through community, joy, and deep respect for the living world.
Camps run Monday–Friday.
Kinder Camps: 8:00 AM–2:00 PM (+ optional aftercare 2:00–4:00 PM)
Grades Camps: full-day camp series (9:00 AM–4:00 PM)
Middle Grades: full-day camp series (9:00 AM–4:00 PM)
Our New Campus:
Atlan Forest
Atlan Forest, Heartsong’s new home, is a 151-acre sanctuary of deep forest, cool streams, and immersive nature nestled near White Salmon, Washington. Drawing on Atlan’s vision of living in right relationship with the land, this rich landscape features second-growth Douglas fir, riparian corridors, and diverse habitats that invite exploration, wonder, and stewardship. Here, children and adults can wander shaded trails, learn from flowing waters, and grow rooted in the rhythms of the wild. Atlan Forest offers a place where community, curiosity, and reverence for the natural world can flourish together.
Kinder Camps
(Ages 3–6)
A gentle, magical week in the forest—filled with craft, stories, imaginative play, snack-making, garden hunts, and rhythmic days outdoors.
Daily Hours: 8:00 AM–2:00 PM
Aftercare Available: 2:00–4:30 PM
Camp Weeks
June 29–July 3: Forest Sprites
July 6–10: Woven From Weeds
July 13–17: Pirate Camp
July 20–24: Bears, Dens and Animal Friends
July 27–31: Forest Sprites
Aug 3–7: Woven From Weeds
Aug 10–14: Pirate Camp
Aug 17–21: Bears, Dens and Animal Friends
A Day in Kinder Camp
8:00 Soft arrival: craft, making snacks, getting ready, cozy corner play
9:15 Morning craft & play
9:30 Morning circle
10:00 Snack
10:30 Clean up & play
11:00 Transition & story
11:30 Play
12:00 Transition & lunch
12:30 Play
1:00 Quiet craft & garden hunt
1:30 Parade back to pick up
2:00 Children home
Wilderness Camp
(Ages 7–12)
The Wilderness Camp invite children into skill-building, science, and wild wonder through play, experimentation, and ancient practices—woven with storytelling, teamwork, and adventure!
Daily Hours: 8:00 AM–4:00 PM
A 5-Week Element Series of Science, Skill, and Wonder
This immersive series invites children into a deep, playful relationship with the natural world through hands-on science, games, experiments, and ancient skills. Each week focuses on one of the four elements—Earth, Air, Fire, and Water—culminating in a fifth week where all learning comes together in a joyful, collaborative Elemental Quest.
Each camp may be taken as a stand-alone week, or children may enroll in all five to experience the full elemental journey.
Every week weaves together 5 core components:
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Campers become geologists and ancestral skill-keepers as they explore stones, soils, and landforms. They’ll experiment with erosion, crack open geodes, practice flint knapping, map the Gorge, and play tracking and terrain games. This week builds groundedness, patience, and respect for deep time.
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Through kite-building, wind challenges, breath games, and movement experiments, campers explore the unseen powers that shape weather, flight, and life itself. Children test air resistance, track wind patterns, and build simple flying inventions—learning physics through play, story, song, and adventure.
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Campers learn safe fire-building, heat experiments, forest fire preparedness, and the science of combustion. Through games, storytelling, and ecological simulations, children explore how fire shapes ecosystems and cultures—and our responsibility in caring for them.
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Children follow water’s journey from snowpack to stream, experimenting with filtration, erosion, flow rate, and observation techniques. They build mini watersheds, conduct creek studies, and learn how water connects everything it touches.
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In the final week, all four elements come together in a collaborative adventure. Campers work in teams to solve challenges, build shelters, design elemental tools, complete science quests, and create a culminating presentation or festival for families. This week emphasizes leadership, creativity, synthesis, and celebration.
Theater Camp
For young performers who love storytelling, movement, imagination, and creating together—outdoors and inspired by nature.
Lower Grades (Ages 7–10)
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A whimsical, imaginative theater camp rooted in movement, storytelling, puppetry, and nature-based play. Children create characters, costumes, and short performances inspired by myths, animals, and fairy tales.
Performance on Friday at 2:30 PM.
Middle Grades (Ages 11–15)
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A deeper dive into performance, script development, ensemble work, and stagecraft. Students explore voice, physical theater, improvisation, and storytelling while co-creating an original outdoor production.
Performance on Friday at 2:30 PM.
Summer Camp Policies
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Cancellations made 60 days or more before the camp start date will receive a full refund, minus a $25 processing fee.
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Cancellations made less than 60 days before the camp start date will receive a full credit, valid for 1 calendar year.
Credits may be transferred to a friend or applied toward 2027 camps.
Credits cannot be used toward membership fees or tuition.
Opportunities for Junior Camp Counselors
If your teenager has the proposensity to hang out with younger children and can be a good role model, help with logistics, and generally be supportive, please contact us. We have room for 1 Junior camp counselor per cohort/camp for Adventure camps, and probably 1 for the littles if trained in working with small children AND being able to be coached..
Compensation is a stipend approach while technically a volunteer. Stipend TBD based on capacity after an initial interview with camp leads.