Build. Craft. Take home what you make! Step into the Woodworking Shop and bring your ideas to life. Learn to safely use traditional hand tools like saws, hammers, and augers. Shape wood with carving tools, fasten pieces together, and finish each creation with your own unique style. Whether you’re just starting or have been building for years, this camp gives you real tools, real projects, and real skills to take home.
Woodworking Shop - Tools, Carving & Craft
In the Woodworking Shop, you work with expert Guides to turn raw materials into useful, beautiful things. Every step—from measuring and cutting to sanding and painting—helps you gain confidence with tools and express your creativity through craftsmanship.
What You Do
Design, cut, and create. Work safely and proudly with real tools. Woodworking Shop includes:
Hand Tools & Carving Use traditional hand tools like saws, hammers, clamps, and augers. Learn safe carving techniques and work with wood in different forms.
Design, Build & Join Design and build projects that are fun, functional, and take-home ready. Drill, fasten, and shape wood using classic joinery and kid-sized tools.
Finishing & Shop Safety Sand, glue, paint, and finish your pieces with care and precision. Explore the basics of tool safety, workbench etiquette, and DIY confidence.
Every Skill Level Take on challenges scaled to your skill—whether you're a beginner or advanced. Build patience, focus, and pride through hands-on creation.
Check-in at Camp Herms
1100 James Place, El Cerrito. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day's adventure.
Where the day happens
Basecamps are in-class camps held at our convenient drop-off locations, where kids learn crafts, skills, and games.
Week 2 (June 14–18)
El Cerrito camps check in at our alternate site that week, the Unitarian Church of Berkeley in Kensington, near Camp Herms.
Check-in at Camp Herms
1100 James Place, El Cerrito. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day's adventure.
Where the day happens
El Cerrito Adventure usually remains onsite at Camp Herms, a private nature park in the East Bay hills. When they travel, buses and vans are driven by trained drivers. Camp Herms features woods to explore, forest for archery and stealth games, and an indoor gathering hall.
Week 2 (June 14–18)
El Cerrito camps check in at our alternate site that week, the Unitarian Church of Berkeley in Kensington, near Camp Herms.
Check-in at 5000 Clarewood Dr
5000 Clarewood Dr, Oakland. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day.
Where the day happens
Basecamps are in-class camps held at our convenient drop-off locations, where kids learn crafts, skills, and games.
Check-in at 5000 Clarewood Dr
5000 Clarewood Dr, Oakland. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day's adventure.
The ride
Trained Trackers drivers, Guides on board. Songs are sung and stories are told on the way, and the Guides get the team ready for a fun adventure.
Where the bus goes
We head out to local nature parks and Camp Herms in El Cerrito, a wild site where we have private access.
Real skills. Real adventure. Real friends.
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Questions? Call (510) 575-9444 or email hello@trackersearth.com.