Discover wildlife and the great outdoors with your little one in our fun, safe, hands-on parent-and-me preschooler programs! Child must be accompanied by an adult free of charge.
Virtual Preschooler Series
In person preschool programs are on hold. Discover more activities to add fun to your social distancing.Continue discovering nature with your little one as we bring DelNature to you! Join us online for fun, safe, hands-on programs for preschoolers. Individual activities to vary by session but will include story time, virtual guided walks with a naturalist, meeting live animals, and crafts with materials lists provided in advance.
Tuesday 10am & Friday 10am | Ages 3-5 | Registration Required
Parent Participation Required (free of charge)
When you register, you register for a pair of 2 separate live programs exploring the week’s theme.
Lorax Leaders
July 28, 10am & July 31, 10am
Enjoy The Lorax. Make a Truffula Tree and a Humming-fish. Learn how to stop Smogulous smoke and Gluppity-glupp. Unless!
Wild About Water
August 4, 10am & August 7, 10am
Drip, drizzle, and splash your way through soggy stories, damp crafts, and sloppy experiments that teach you about the properties of water.
Earth and Sky Adventures
August 11, 10am & August 14, 10am
Listen to stories found in the night sky. Build a rocket to fly around a constellation you create. Learn how the sun and moon affect Earth.
Mad Scientists
August 18, 10am & August 21, 10am
Sticky, stinky, slimy, yucky. Those are the words we use to describe the weird things we’ll whip up in our dank, dungeon laboratory. No animals were harmed in performing these experiments because they thought of them first!
Nature’s Builders
August 23, 10am & August 28, 10am
Become one of nature’s builders. Construct a chimney the way a crayfish does and explore a crayfish habitat. Discover how wasps make paper then make some paper of your own. Build a bomb (a seed bomb) and drop it on a bare spot outdoors, then watch the flowers grow.
In Person Preschool Programs – On Hold
These programs take place September – May.
Green By Nature
Tuesdays & Fridays, 9:30 – 11 am
September – mid-June
Ages 2 – 5
Parent participation required, free of charge.
Locations alternate between Ashland Nature Center, Coverdale Farm Preserve, and DuPont Environmental Education Center.
Knee-High Naturalists
Wednesdays, 10 am – 11:30 am
September – May
Ages 2 – 5
Parent participation required, free of charge.
Abbott’s Mill Nature Center in Milford, DE.