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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Paper Bag Frog Craft
This week try creating a frog puppet out of a paper bag, some paint, and cardstock! Did you know that, although frogs have lungs, they mainly breathe through their skin? This is especially helpful when they hibernate in the winter months. Frogs also absorb water through their skin and rarely drink water through their mouths. Now frogs are busy eating and mating! Like birds, different frog species have different calls used to communicate specific messages. They use their calls to defend territories, find a mate, and communicate distress. Frogs lay their jelly-like eggs in water, where they then hatch out as tadpoles. |
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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!
June 1, 2020
Our Stewardship Coordinator, Garrett, captured this picture last week at the Preserve. Did you know that, although frogs have lungs, they mainly breathe through their skin? This is especially helpful when they hibernate in the winter months. Frogs also absorb water through their skin and rarely drink water through their mouths. Now frogs are busy eating and mating! Like birds, different frog species have different calls used to communicate specific messages. They use their calls to defend territories, find a mate, and communicate distress. Frogs lay their jelly-like eggs in water, where they then hatch out as tadpoles. A member recently shared a picture of tadpoles on Lincoln Pond. Have you seen any frog eggs or tadpoles in your backyard? How many different frog calls have you heard recently?
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Photo Credit: Lynsey Ackert
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