Let’s put the final summer harvest to creative use. Join our Early Childhood Art Educator Caroline Erb in exploring your creativity using paints made from seasonal plants. Learn about plant parts and the purpose of pigment in the natural world while making your own paint. Be sure to wear clothes you don’t mind getting a little messy.
What makes a brook burble? Explore the physical, biological, and chemical characteristics of Bailey Brook to understand the stream as a vital freshwater ecosystem.
Learn skills essential for historical Lenape children with Early Childhood Art Educator Caroline Erb. Try your hand at weaving phragmites mats, create a corn husk doll, and make rope from plant fibers. We will also play traditional games. M $10/family; NM $15/family Limited to five families No more than five family members/family This program will...
We often say, “take a hike, leave only footprints,” but during this program, we invite you to gather natural materials as we walk to fashion into art inspired by your journey.
Enter the Enchanted Forest for a guided adventure featuring a cast of whimsical characters and familiar forest friends.
Costumes are optional, but encouraged!
As Teatown’s trees show their true colors, we will look to this fabulous fall foliage for natural art materials. Where will your inspiration take you? Come craft with Early Childhood Art Educator Caroline Erb to find out.
When we think of endangered species, exotic animals like African elephants, blue whales, and polar bears often come to mind. But did you know that local species are also under threat?
Winter is right around the corner! Get ready for the changing of the seasons by making festive decorations with Caroline Erb, Environmental Art Educator. Create something bright for the darkest days of winter using natural and recycled materials.
How do animals get ready for winter? Play a game and meet an ambassador animal with Environmental Educator Elissa Schilmeister to learn about strategies from packing on the pounds to packing up and leaving. Winter is coming – be prepared!
The shortest day of the year is nearly here! Make gifts for wildlife to help them through the longest nights of the year. Put together pinecone birdfeeders and more to feed our feathered friends. M $10/family; NM $15/family Limited to five families No more than five family members/family Register
Where do birds go in the winter? Why do trees lose their leaves? If you have a curious child that asks questions like these, Holidaze Mini-Camp is the place for your budding naturalist!
Join Early Childhood Art Educator Caroline Erb for an avian art session and bird walk. Birds of winter, even without their breeding plumage, are beautiful. How will their fine feathers inspire you?
Celebrate Lunar New Year at Teatown as we welcome the Year of of the Rabbit.
Can you tell a beech from a birch in the dead of winter? Join Environmental Art Educator Caroline Erb to sharpen your eye and put your new winter tree ID skills to the test.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day by making valentines for wildlife. Environmental Art Educator Caroline Erb will introduce some of Teatown’s favorite heartthrobs and lead card making.
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! Celebrate the father of biodiversity with Environmental Educator Elissa Schilmeister. Learn why biodiversity is so important and meet the diverse members of Teatown’s live collection.
Follow your nose to Warren’s Sugar House and experience the sights and smells of sap bubbling into golden syrup! Along the way, learn how to identify and tap a maple tree.
Follow your nose to Warren’s Sugar House and experience the sights and smells of sap bubbling into golden syrup! Along the way, learn how to identify and tap a maple tree.
Follow your nose to Warren’s Sugar House and experience the sights and smells of sap bubbling into golden syrup! Along the way, learn how to identify and tap a maple tree.
Follow your nose to Warren’s Sugar House and experience the sights and smells of sap bubbling into golden syrup! Along the way, learn how to identify and tap a maple tree.
