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  • 10:30am-12:00pm Junior Nature Play Thursday Series

    Ages 5–8 or Grades K–3

    Junior Nature Play is back in Winter 2021! Children in kindergarten and first grade may sign up for this immersive, lightly-structured program that lets kids be “free-range” while being safely […]

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  • 3:30-5:30pm Girls into the Wild Series

    Ages 5–8/Grades K–3 or Ages 9–11/Grades 4–6

    Girls into the Wild is back in Winter 2021 for more romping wildly through the field and forests of the Hitchcock Center. As always we’ll visit our favorite places to […]

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  • 3:30-5:30pm Girls into the Wild Series

    Ages 5–8/Grades K–3 or Ages 9–11/Grades 4–6

    Girls into the Wild is back in Winter 2021 for more romping wildly through the field and forests of the Hitchcock Center. As always we’ll visit our favorite places to […]

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  • 10:00-11:30am Nature Discovery Preschool Adventure: Wild About Wind

    Ages 3–5 or Grade Pre-K

    Come explore the wonders of winter! This award-winning adult and child preschool program offers weekly outdoor exploration together combined with multi-modal learning experiences to foster wonder and curiosity about the natural world. Each program includes movement, song, nature exploration, snacktime, and a story. Sign up for one or more days and choose from one of […]

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  • 1:00-2:30pm Nature Discovery Preschool Adventure: Wild About Wind

    Ages 3–5 or Grade Pre-K

    Come explore the wonders of winter! This award-winning adult and child preschool program offers weekly outdoor exploration together combined with multi-modal learning experiences to foster wonder and curiosity about the natural world. Each program includes movement, song, nature exploration, snacktime, and a story. Sign up for one or more days and choose from one of […]

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  • 10:00-10:45am Second Saturday Science Walk: Camouflage

    Ages 5–8/Grades K–3 or Ages 9–11/Grades 4–6

    For our Winter sessions of Second Saturday Science we are changing things up a little. In order to still provide a safe outdoor space to learn about nature, while keeping warm, our programs will be set up as forest walks that will focus on different seasonal topics. Designed for children with their parents, registration is […]

    $5 – $12

  • 9am-12pm: Nature All Year: Winter Tracking with Kathy Dean in Ashfield

    Adult Programs

    Join us for an in-depth natural history course to develop your naturalists skills. Each month, in our series of nature explorations with different local naturalists, we explore a focused, seasonal, natural history topic. We’ll look at nature in new ways, from broad habitat perspectives to close details of individual species. Over the course of the […]

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  • 10:30am-12:00pm Junior Nature Play Monday Series

    Ages 5–8 or Grades K–3

    Junior Nature Play is back in Winter 2021! Children in kindergarten and first grade may sign up for this immersive, lightly-structured program that lets kids be “free-range” while being safely […]

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  • 3:30-5:30pm Games in Nature Afterschool Series 

    Ages 9–11 or Grades 4–6

    Games in Nature is back in winter 2021! Our Winter game days will begin with our favorite structured group games, which focus on confidence building, leadership, communication, and laughing.  Each day also includes winter nature exploration: We’ll be hiking through snow covered wooded trails and fields, building forts, sledding, and playing freely in the woods. […]

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  • 3:30-5:30pm Nature Play Afterschool Monday Series

    Ages 5–8 or Grades K–3

    Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During Winter Nature Play we will explore wooded trails and fields, play in the snow, build forts, sled, make snow creations, […]

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