Florence Food, Fun, and Fitness

08/28/2025

Thank you, participants and families, for the MER-TASTIC summer! Please enjoy the slideshow and complete our program evaluation if you haven't.

07/18/2025

The final week of Food, Fun, and Fitness (FFF) wrapped up the four-week program with joy and creativity. Campers explored backyard nature with Shawna and Garret from Florence County Land Conservation. They identified local plants, insects, and wildlife, turning the ordinary into an adventure. A sunny slip ‘n slide afternoon brought classic summer fun. Kids got creative with crafts, fruit kabobs, and LEGO builds, followed by the much-loved Strawberry Social. Families joined for strawberry shortcake, ice cream, and jam made from berries picked in week 3! With full bellies and happy hearts, campers closed out another unforgettable summer at FFF.

07/16/2025

If any of these were left behind by your student, please stop at the Extension office to pick them up!

5628 Forestry Drive
Natural Resource Center
Lower Level

07/13/2025

We hope the FFF participants had a wonderful week off and enjoyed all the fun we had when they came back! We went to Pellegrini's Strawberry Farm and city park for a field trip and back at school we had loads of fun with building boats and seeing how many rocks they could hold, the participants road a smoothie bike, played environment bingo, and made sea creatures out of different shapes! They also had some water fun and there will be even more fun next week!

07/08/2025

Strawberry picking has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 9. If your child doesn't like pb&j please send a lunch. Also, send them in clothes that can get dirty or stained. The kids are excited to do some sampling and picking, watch for pictures at the end of the week!

07/06/2025

Dear FFF Parents & Participants, Our field trip to Pelligrinis for strawberry picking has been cancelled for tomorrow. We are hoping to reschedule for Wednesday, July 9. We will keep you posted! This means the lunch menu will not be pb&j tomorrow it will be chicken teriyaki. Thank you for your understanding!

06/28/2025

Week 2 is over, and our staff and participants are now on break! Participants had a blast running through sprinklers, planting flowers, building mini aquariums, and creating tasty treats like trail mix and chocolate hummus. They also got crafty with paper plate pufferfish (try saying that five times fast!), built sandcastles out of pool noodles, battled it out with water balloons, and made colorful slime.
The Food, Fun, and Fitness (FFF) program would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to Craig Soderberg and Kay Pestor of Freedom Greenhouse and Fireworks in Florence for their generous donation of flowers. Thanks to their support, all 150 participants had the joy of getting their hands dirty and planting something beautiful.
Happy Fourth everyone!

06/28/2025

Attention Parents and Participants! If weather allows, we will be going strawberry picking the day we come back from our break! Wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty!

06/28/2025

Attention all FFF participants and parents, here's a reminder that we will not be having Food Fun & Fitness this week due to the Fourth of July! Enjoy your break!

06/27/2025

FFF participants here is the July breakfast and lunch menus. HUGE THANK YOU to our cook Michelle VandenHeuvel for all the yummy breakfasts and lunches!!!!!

Reminder there is no FFF next week, June 30-July 3. Have a Happy 4th of July!

06/23/2025

Our FFF leaders were super excited to WHALE-come this year's participates to our "under the sea" themed camp this year! Our amazing staff planned tons of fun activities for the children including oceans in a bottle, painting reusable bags, water balloons, growing micronutrients, making their own shrink-E-dinks, watching a wonderful skit put on by the Youth Leaders, and making bird feeders! Ask your child about all the other fun things we did, I'm sure they have lots of stories! We are excited to see them again for week 2 with more and more fun!!!

05/05/2025

Please Share: Registration for Food, Fun, & Fitness 2025 is now open!
For more information, or to download the registration brochure, please visit: https://florence.extension.wisc.edu/.../food-fun-and.../
Contact Jane Lindow at 715.528.4480 ext 1 with any questions.

Food, Fun and Fitness (FFF) is a summer day camp for children entering 1st– 5th grade in its 24th year. It is still running smoothly due to the strong partnership it has with the community alongside cheerful staff and well-behaved kids with fantastic attitudes. Our program has five different int...