Nature Song Sing-a-long at the Groton Nature Center
Learn about cicadas, spiders, snakes, beavers, and groups of animals in this nature song sing-along.
Learn about cicadas, spiders, snakes, beavers, and groups of animals in this nature song sing-along.
Work alongside Kat, the Center's Interpreter, to complete activities in the Junior Ranger Booklet. Maybe you can even earn your patch!
One of nature’s most amazing transformations happens right in our neighborhood. Learn about this metamorphosis and make a butterfly hanging.
Have you seen a porcupine in our park? You can learn about them and make one out of clay.
A pair of Bald Eagles is nesting in Lake St. Catherine. We can't promise you'll see them, but you can make an eagle hat and learn about our national bird
Come to the Nature Center to learn about the bears in Vermont and pet a bear skin
In its original range, the invasive shrub buckthorn has been used in ink-making for thousands of years. Come paint with buckthorn ink and learn how to make your own! Twenty minutes, qualifies as a Junior Ranger service project. Meets in Day Use.
Learn how mile-tall glaciers made the clay “button” rocks that gave the park its name—and make model “buttons” of your own! One half-hour, models will take an additional half-hour to harden. Ages 4 and up, meets at the Nature Center.
Travel 460 million years back in time to Ordovician Vermont on this guided walk along the Champlain Trail to our gastropod--snail--fossil beds. Forty minutes, departs from Day Use and concludes at the Nature Center.
Walk meets at the Manager's Office