Oxley Nature Center

A few weeks ago our Play and Learn Group went to the Oxley Nature Center to learn about trees and leaves.  Here are a few highlights:

 Michelle made a delicious cinnamon bread and she was so nice to make it will ingredients that we safe for Elliott and Oliver!!

 After we ate our snack we headed outside to find leaves!  Here's Jacob finding a stick to add to his collections.

 His Elliott showing off one of his leaves.

 Lilly found a good one!

 Michelle was so good about knowing which leaves belonged to which trees.  She knew all of the names of the trees, too (I was pretty clueless)!  It was great learning for me, too!

 Here's Linnea and Oliver collecting items for the bags.

 Lilly and Ben were on the hunt for leaves!

 Such cute kids!!  From left to right: Lilly, Jacob, Ben, Elliott, Linnea and Oliver.

 Oliver enjoyed the nature walk!

 The Nature Center has a fun little area for the kids to play.

 Here's Lilly climbing through the pretend log inside the Nature Center.

 Michelle planned some activities for us.  We made bird feeders with pine cones, sunflower seed butter and bird seed.

 Here's Lilly finishing hers.

The kiddos also made leaf t-shirts.  Michelle helped them paint each leaf and then press it onto the t-shirt.  They turned about really neat!