Kids' Nature Corner
Check this page often for new weekly activities to keep kids busy exploring nature from home!
Scavenger Hunts
What can you find in your backyard or neighborhood? Check back weekly for more treasures to find!
What can you find in your backyard or neighborhood? Check back weekly for more treasures to find!
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Scavenger Hunts Ages 8 and Under
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Scavenger Hunts Ages 9-12
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Nature Crafts
Create these cute, fun crafts with you family out of things from your yard and house. We'll share a little lesson with each to help you learn more. Additional crafts will be added regularly!
Create these cute, fun crafts with you family out of things from your yard and house. We'll share a little lesson with each to help you learn more. Additional crafts will be added regularly!
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Oak trees are a deciduous tree that reproduce with acorns. The hard exterior protects the seed from potential predators and harmful weather. However, animals like chipmunks and squirrels are able to pierce the tough exterior with their teeth! You may find many of the discarded acorn tops in your woods, and here is something you can do with them. Create a beautiful necklace with this simple craft using plentiful acorn tops!
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Share Your Spaces
Introducing our new Sharing Our Spaces series! Check back here and on our Facebook page each Monday to see what we are discovering at the Huyck Preserve and in our own backyards. We encourage families to see what you can discover in your backyards, and share it with us, too! Email pictures you might have to info@huyckpreserve.org, and we may post them in a future week. We hope you enjoy these short educational opportunities as you spend time at home!
May 4, 2020
Sharing Our Spaces!
For the next few Mondays, we are going to focus our Monday Kids Sharing Our Spaces posts on our staff’s favorite trees from their own backyards. Here is Executive Director Anne Rhoads’ favorite.
What is it? A sugar maple!
Why does she love it? “It’s the biggest tree in my yard and probably the oldest. I like to think about who else has lived in my house as it has grown and what the world was like throughout its life. It grows outside my kitchen window, and I love watching it change throughout the year. Today, it is just starting to get leaves and flowers. I also love to see how other animals use the tree. This morning, a robin was perched on a low branch, and last week a red squirrel was scampering through the branches. My favorite time with this tree is when it is in full flower later in May and the bees are visiting all of the blooms -- I stand under the tree, and it hums! Later in summer, I’ll appreciate all the shade that the tree casts on the yard.”
Check back next week to learn about another staff favorite.
What is your favorite tree?
