Spring and Summer
Programs For Children
Nature On The Move has literally hundreds of programs for all ages, interests and abilities. Of special interest is a whole slate for the preschool and toddler audience. Its never too early to start having fun learning about nature! Want to offer programs for kids but donít have the staff, time or expertise? Let Nature On The Move help your organization, association, town recreation program or library. 


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 		 Babes in the Woods
For toddlers and their caregivers, is adapted from the Missouri Conservation Departmentís program of the same name. "Babes" introduces toddler to the natural world though a guided sensory walk while rekindling in the caregivera sense of wonder and familiarity with the nature around them.
PricingxxxxxOne program, usually 45 minutes in length is $75. 

Budding Naturalist
For 3-5 year olds, usually includes a story, walk and activity in a 1.5-hour time period. 

 
A mountain that loved a bird
Animal Babies
Every Autumn Comes A Bear
Beavers
Crow's Journey
Feathers for Lunch
Planting A Rainbow
Chipmunks
Dirt Made My Lunch
Marsh Music
Mountains to Sand
Hello Spring
How to Hide
I can make that
North Country Night
Nuts to You
Oddhopper Opera
Salamander Room
Squish
Trees
Worms
Windsday
PricingxxxxxA two hour program costs $150 + $1.00/child materials for activity. 

Junior Naturalists
For elementary to middle school age children, usually includes a field experience and/or a conservation type activity and lots of fun! Kids should be prepared to get messy.

Don't Take it For Granite
A fun introduction to Adirondack geology. Whatís the difference between rocks and minerals? What kind of rocks do we have in the Adirondacks? How do these rocks and minerals shape the landscape we see today? Children will start their own rock and mineral collection.

Which Way Does The Wind Blow
Adirondack weather can be anything but predictable, nonetheless you can use your homemade barometer, wind gauge, crickets and others to give you an idea of whatís ahead.

Salamander Search
Look for the secretive denizens of Adirondack woods and waters. Are they lizards? Do they all live in water? Why are salamanders in the news these days? Children will find answers to these questions as we search for salamanders and newts. 

Barking Up The Right Tree
Are you up to the challenge Sherlock? Learn how to identify common trees by using bark, buds and branches. Children make their own field book and key.

What Lies Beneath
Discover the awesome, prehistoric looking critters on the bottoms of lakes and streams. Uncover the amazing life cycle of many aquatic insects and their adaptations for life in and near the water. Children survey critters stream or pondside, viewing with microscopes. 

Butterflies
Get up close and personal with butterflies in all stages of their life cycles. View eggs, the size of pinheads, caterpillars that eat you out of house and home as well as camouflage chrysalides. Children make a bughouse or a butterfly watering fountain or plant a window box to attract these important pollinators.

Toads
Did you know we only have one kind of toad in the Adirondacks? Learn about this secretive and much maligned amphibian while exploring its habitat and creating a toad abode to entice this bug and slug-eating machine into your garden

Hummingbirds
Always fascinating and fun to study. Discover the whole story behind our ruby-throated hummingbird while making a feeder of your own.

Wade into wetlands
Wetlands are fascinating, wonderful places full of neat plants and amazing critters. This program can be divided into the components listed below for five different programs. Weíll visit a wetland and explore:

Plants:get up close with "meat" eating plants, be amazed at the water holding ability of natureís sponge and prepare a wetland cookbook.

Animals:whoíd want to live in these damp places? Well, plenty of animals call wetlands their homes. Children will search for evidence of animals and learn why wetlands are such great places to make a home. 

Birds:wetlands are avian nurseries for literally hundreds of birds. Weíll search for the feathered inhabitants of wetlands and discover their special adaptations for life in the marsh.

Soils and water:wetland soils are endowed with super hero powers. Children as "jr. scientists" will experiment and discover the special properties and characteristics of water and soil in wetlands. 

PricingxxxxxA two hour program costs $150 + costs for materials (if any)