We’re getting out our crayons and our magnifying glasses to explore the great big world today! Join us as we use art to discover the environment that’s all around us, along with songs, games, and other kinds of nature play.
Meeting Location: Inside Austin Gardens Environmental Education Center
We’re breaking out the low ropes course for some climbing and tricklining! Test your balancing skills only a short distance off the ground. Beginners welcome and encouraged!
Who made those tracks? A rabbit? A deer? Was it Bigfoot?!
Join us as we make paster footprint casts of animal tracks, learn about the animals that make them, and build tracking guides for our next hike in the woods.
What do giant squid, platypus, and okapi have in common? People thought they weren't real animals!
Join us as we rediscover the animals that we previously thought were just myths, tell their stories, and learn how they were finally found.
Explore summer in the Discovery Garden! Enjoy hands-on activities led by our garden docents outside. Learn about native Illinois ecosystems and have fun playing in the garden!
Jun: Pollinators
Jul: Water Play
Aug: In the Dirt
