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.