Camps

All camps include:

• Camp daily from 9:00-3:30pm
• Enthusiastic and energetic educators who love working with kids.
• Interactions with living Bug Ambassadors and time exploring the Butterfly House every day.
• Exciting age-appropriate activities.

Lunch is not included.

Full Day Camps: $325 for members, $350 for non-members
Half Day Camps: $150 for members, $175 for non-members

Scholarships:
Thanks to a generous donor, we were able to offer summer camp scholarships this year. All available scholarships have been awarded for this summer. 

All camps will be capped at 12 students each.

Each week of camp will have it’s own age range for students going into the following grades: 

• PreK (3 – 5 years old, must be fully potty trained)
• 1st – 2nd
• 3rd – 5th
• 6th – 8th

Each week of Bug Camp will have its own theme to guide our explorations and adventures!

Lil’ Bugs: Preschool Adventures
This half-day camp for preschoolers will be full of fun, silly adventures as we play to learn all about insects and their relatives. We’ll hold bugs, explore the museum and butterfly house, play games, and work on art projects.

Bugs n’ Botany: Middle School
Go behind the scenes with this camp for curious middle schoolers looking to get their hands dirty working on real STEM projects. We’ll spend time working with biocontrols being used to manage invasive weeds, explore the inner workings of the Missoula Butterfly House’s USDA containment facility lab, dig into the management of the Rocky Mountain Gardens, and more.  This exciting camp is a partnership between the Missoula Butterfly House & Insectarium and the Missoula County Department of Ecology and Extension. Thanks to this partnership campers will get access to experts from both organizations, completing real STEM projects and experiments that explore the worlds of botany and entomology.

Creative Creatures
This camp sits right at the exciting intersection of art and science. We’ll use art and our imaginations to explore the world of insects and their relatives. This camp is perfect for bug lovers looking to stretch their creative muscles and young artists curious about the natural world.  We’ll be holding live Bug Ambassadors from around the world and going on bug hunts to look for local ones to inspire our creative projects.

Insect Engineering
The world is full of creatures that build astounding structures: termites building mounds as tall as adult humans, bees creating hexagonal homes, and spiders spinning elaborate webs, just to name a few. During this exciting camp, we’ll do some building of our own as we investigate these natural architects and more.

Bugs of the World
The Missoula Butterfly House is home to over 130 species and 1,000s of individual Bug Ambassadors from around the world. During this bug camp, we’ll spend each day exploring a different habitat, all of the bugs that call it home, and the adaptations they use to survive there. From tropical leaf insects to desert-dwelling beetles, we’ll travel the world without leaving Missoula.