Making mud pies, testing balancing skills to move acorns from basket to basket, making nature art, identifying animal tracks, collecting bugs, and building onto a fort using nothing more than sticks and leaves. These are just a few of the activities that children are doing to learn about nature in the Zoological Society of Milwaukee's Nature Play program-a new initiative to provide nature-based free play for children and families in the city. Last autumn, two schools invited from the Milwaukee area-Hawley Environmental School and Allen-Field Elementary-made their way to Macaque Island at the Milwaukee County Zoo and walked up aRead the full article...The post Nature Play in the city appeared first on Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin.
