Ways You Can Teach Your Children To Appreciate Nature
- Encourage children to play, dig and plant their own garden areas.
- Plant trees! Trees are a valuable resource for our natural setting.
- Walk in your backyard with your children. Picnic in your yard and at the beaches.
- Study the surroundings and observe the wildlife.
- Take a hike! Walk in the woods; tour the community garden and wetlands.
- Rake the leaves and use a push mower. Without power mowers and blowers the air is cleaner. Your children can safely participate in gardening and learn to care for the earth.
- Participate in Earth Day and Wild Life Appreciation days.
- Build birdhouses and bat boxes with your children.
- Install a sundial.
- Learn about beneficial insects.
- Teach recycling! Create a compost pile.
- Learn to recognize sounds of birds and other creatures.
- Be an observer of nature.