Arbor Day Celebration

Upcoming Dates: Friday April 25th 2008

Costs: Tree Donation (See Adopt a Tree Information Below) - Pre-register with the tree you will be bringing.

Length of Time: 10am - 3pm

Class Description

Agenda

• 10:15 - Welcome to our woods. Thanksgiving to the TREES!
• 10:30 - History of Arbor Day
• Songs
• 11:00 - HUG A TREE - wilderness survival technique
• 11:30 - How Old is that tree? How tall is that tree?
• Story Time: Great Books about Trees and Nature
• 12:00 - Picnic Lunches (bring your own)
• 12:30 - How, where, when to Plant a Tree
• 1:00 - Tree Planting Begins
• Nature Poetry - We would love your contributions, a special poem you like or wrote yourself.

Adopt a tree

Camp Director Chipco (means: Tree Hugger) asks for tree donations. Her goal is to raise trees of many varieties to eventually use as teaching tools at the camp. So when we learn about the Catalpa we can someday climb in her branches, put the flowers on our fingertips and watch the cattapillers defoilage it while providing us with fish bait. This is just one example of what we could do with one tree. We love the Post Oaks, Cedar Elm and Juniper Red Cedars that forest the woods at the camp but we ask families, scout troopps, school classes, homeschool groups and other groups to ADOPT A TREE of different varieties. We hope you will choose one of the varieties listed below, purchase it, and then plant it at the camp. A plaque will be placed with both yours and it's names at its base. We hope you will help shower it both with water and love during your visits to Camp Tonkawa. Trees planted in the pasture areas will also need protective rings built around them to protect them from being eatten by the horses.

Fruit trees suitable for our region will also be gladly accepted.

A FAMILY TREE can be donated but for larger trees get you scout troops, homeschool groups, school classes to all pitch in.