The Forest Path

05/31/2026

Unfolding your child's intelligence, imagination, creativity and joy for life.

The Sacred Urge to Play
available at www.goodeggbooks.co.nz

05/29/2026

Announcing another amazing staff for our camps - Raccoon camp and Wild Sisters! Mareike Wasilenko is a certified teacher and drama educator with a passion for creativity, outdoor learning, and building confidence in children. She has been running drama camps in Nelson for the past five years, tutors home learners locally, and has also supported the outdoor school Earth Connections as forest mentor.

Originally from Germany, Mareike grew up attending and later helping lead overnight camps for many years, experiences that shaped her love for camp life, community, and adventure. She is also a mother of two children (ages 8 and 10) and enjoys creating playful, welcoming spaces where children can connect, express themselves, gain confidence, and grow.

05/14/2026

Forest Path has an amazing summer camp team! Announcing Valerie May Evans joining us for the Grizzly, Muskrat and Girls camp.
-- More camps are full! If you are interested, email me to get on the waitlist and we are working on getting more staff and add more spots. --

Valerie is a multi-talented human with a zest for learning and passion for inspiring curiosity, creativity, confidence and connection. She is a registered professional biologist, face painter, life coach, singer-songwriter, facilitator of play workshops and is also a community builder. She grew up taking part in girl guides and was inspired to became a girl guide leader herself, although it wasn’t until she partook in Coyote Mentorship training that she found the missing piece of how to design a fun and functional learning environment that really felt good. She is excited to join this year’s team and is looking forward to getting to know everyone!

The Forest Path is happy to welcome Valerie to the team!

05/12/2026

Come cook for our overnight camp! The Forest Path is looking for a cook for Aug 17-20 during the girls overnight camp. Female cook, experienced in cooking for 20 people in outdoor kitchen with a real oven/stove, not an open fire and not just popcorn!

05/12/2026

Summer camp spots are filling up!
There are some left in the Grizzly camp, Coyote Camp and Racoon camp. Muskrat camp is full. The Elves camp and Wild sisters Camps are half full.
Let me know if you like to be added to a waitlist and we might be able to get another staff and add more spots.

05/01/2026

Forest Path summer camps in Nelson, Sinxit tumulau.

05/01/2026

Are you ready for summer!? Did you get to be wild as a kid, build forts, pick berries, play epic camoflage games, sing around a fire?
Sign up now to The Forest Path summer camps before spots are gone. The Muskrat camp is full already.

04/09/2026

Do you like to watch how forest school and coyote mentoring looks like? This documentary from Wisdom of the Earth on Saltspring Island is wonderful. English subtitles from French.

L’école Wolf, sujet du film, est située en Colombie Britannique, au Canada. Les enfants y explorent trois jours par semaine, toute l’année, quelle que soit la météo, la connexion profonde à la nature, aux autres et à eux-mêmes. Le reste de la semaine ils étudient les matières classique...

02/17/2026

Come play with me on Saturday!

Curious about joining the Nelson NatureKids Club? We are welcoming new and prospectve club members at this month's Explorer Day! We'll be learning all about animal tracks through fun, active games and activities. Join Malin from The Forest Path and the NatureKids team for some fun in the snow this weekend! Pre-registration required for this FREE event. For kids age 5-12 and their families (younger siblings welcome). Email [email protected]

02/02/2026

Forest School is taking a break this spring as Malin is doing her training to become a certified early childhood educator.

Come join me at Nature Kids on Feb 21 at 1-3 pm, for a family event to learn more about Tracking animals!

No spring break camp this year :-( as I will be in Sweden.

Summer Camps will run July 6 to Aug 20 for ages 5-13.

The Forest Path will host events during the Earth Week.