2027 Summer Day Camp Registration
will open in mid-November 2026.
Look for the Registration Link
at the top of this page, soon.
Updated Nov 1, 2026
Round-trip professional
“Kids Kab” transportation,
is included at no extra charge.
And some families may instead Carpool.
2027 features 11 weeks of
Summer Day Camps
designed by Ben Walker
The Tribal Wisdom Academy Day Camp is located on a 20-acre private forest estate in the Los Gatos Mountains, and at other locations available through the same one Camp Registration Form (coming soon to this page).
Tribal Wisdom Academy is historic “analog childhood”. (Like in the good old days, before the need for Digital Detox).
See the Big Kid and Alumni Camps (and see their Maker Projects).
The Tribal Wisdom Academy treehouse village experience is your child’s forest home. TWA nurtures authentic social-emotional intelligence, and inspires exploration of traditional life skills.
Get a life filled with your child’s natural (non-artificial) intelligence, to be ready and fully matured as a traditional human being, for when A.I. later surrounds their adult life.
Ben’s camp slogan is essential in today’s world:
”Preparing kids for any world future”.™
Each week has camps for the below age groups,
(Use your child’s age as of December 31, 2027).
Graduate Camp - turning age 7 during 2027. Grads are slowly maturing from being a Little Kid to now becoming part of the Big Kid Camp. Grads have their own one Mentor, and more direct supervision. The Grad Camp has no hot metal blacksmithing, and the wooden projects for Graduates are age-appropriate. Older siblings and Big Kid friends attending the same camp weeks will have all-day contact with your Grad Camper.
The famous Big Kid Adventure Maker Camp - for students turning ages 8 to 10 during 2027. This is the main Tribal Wisdom Academy Camp, where 100 students command a large village of tree houses. The Tribal Wisdom Academy wild forest adventure park includes a large staff of Mentors. Kids make zip lines and tree swings, dig for treasure, and are mentored in creating their own carpentry projects. There is blacksmithing during odd-numbered weeks, and cold metal working during even-numbered weeks. Master Crafter Staff are available to help each camper create wooden toys to bring home. And kids create their own business ventures with Tribal Coins. Our Slogan says it all: “Organic human childhood, in the woods where it all began”.™ The Big Kid Adventure Maker Camp and the Alumni Camp are our main programs, and are featured in 20 Camp Videos HERE.
Alumni Village - turning age 11 or 12 in 2027 and must have attended the TWA Camp in 2026 to qualify. The Alumni create their own advanced projects with a dedicated Mentor and outdoor wood shop. Alumni also create businesses, and some Alumni work in tribal government jobs such as being elected Big Kid Camp Sheriff.
“Be prepared for any world future with the skills of tribal childhood.”
Tribal Wisdom Day Camps help your child rediscover healthy social development within traditional outdoor experiences. Our large staff of camp Mentors allow kids to be kids!
All Tribal Wisdom Academy staff at every level are vetted with Child Safe Training, extensive reference checks, and adult California Department of Justice LiveScan Fingerprinting, and national F.B.I. background checks.
Big Kid ADVENTURE MAKER CAMPS:
for Big Kids turning age 8 to 10
and for “Graduates” if younger.
Real Tools
Power Drills
Bow Carving
Robin Hood Skills
Kid-made Ziplines
Campfires at lunch
Treehouse Building
Tree Forts and Digs
Tree-to-tree Slacklines
Archery and BB gun safety
Knife and Tomahawk Throwing
Tribal Coins for your own Business Ventures
Hot Blacksmithing during odd-numbered weeks
Cold-metalwork projects during even-numbered weeks
Woodworking everyday
A deep forest tribe experience just for kids!
ALUMNI CAMPS:
For TWA Alumni turning age 11 or 12.
Special Alumni Treehouse Village
Access to all of the ABOVE Maker Camp activities, (except Alumni will invent their own daily projects).
Advanced tools and special Maker Materials
The Alumni Treehouse Village experience is your Tween’s last two summers of being a Big Kid.
Experience actual “Analog childhood!”
Flexible choice of a 1-week or 2-week daycamps.
Begin on any Monday of your summer vacation!
Round-trip Shuttle Van Service is provided
by the Kids Kab Transportation Company
and at no extra charge. Book now to get a seat.
These Day Camps Weeks are $870 all inclusive, with Shuttle and one T-shirt.
No added fees, but new families might want to buy extra Camp Shirts (only $9 each).
Note that all kids will be together at camp.
2027 Camp Dates! Begin on any Monday of Summer, while space remains.
Wk-1 is June 7-11 (Week-1 is a special small week, only for last year’s camp kids).
Wk-2 is June 14-18 (beginning of 10 camp weeks open to all)
Wk-3 is June 21-25
Wk-4 is June 28 to July 2
Wk-5 is July 5-9
Wk-6 is July 12-16
Wk-7 is July 19-23
Wk-8 is July 26-30
Wk-9 is Aug 2-6
Wk-10 is Aug 9-13
Wk-11 is Aug 16-20
For ages 8 to 10, the Big Kid Camps are best if experienced during two consecutive weeks. But the program is also designed for kids who attend just one week.
Odd-numbered camp weeks feature Hot Metal Blacksmithing, and those weeks will also feature student inspired take-home wooden projects. The Even-numbered camp weeks feature more wooden Maker Projects and awesome Cold-metalworking.
And a special feature is that our 2-week camps overlap! Approximately two-thirds of the kids on each Monday are beginning the first day of their summer experience, and one-third (or more) of the kids each Monday were at camp during the previous week! This creates a living culture and a tribal village experience.
The advantage of attending 2-weeks for Big Kids is that your child will likely create a camp business with Tribal Coins during their 1st week, and then have fun using their financial education during their 2nd week (while two-thirds of the camp kids have just arrived for a first week). This experience of organic human childhood and personal responsibility is a unique feature of Tribal Wisdom Academy Day Camps.
Ben Jamin Walker’s half-century of global wilderness expeditions and work in environmental and tribal adventure education is the foundation and the origin of Tribal Wisdom Academy. Ben has lived and survived in the deep wilderness with tribal families around the planet.
Our Slogan says it all:
“Organic human childhood, in the woods where it all began”.