NATURE EXPLORER VIDEOS
Join Nature Center staff for our Nature Explorers video program! This season we will be focusing of the lifecycle of a butterfly. Keep an eye out as we release new videos throughout the season.
Wild About Butterflies
Join Nature Center staff for our first Nature Explorers video of the season! Our first video's focus will be all about butterflies! This program includes a fun craft at the end so be sure to watch to whole video.
Craft packets can be picked up during Nature Center open hours until Labor Day Weekend 2024.
Click the link below for craft directions.
Craft: Paper Circle Caterpillar
Presto-change-o
Join Nature Center staff for our second Nature Explorers video of the season! Our second video's focus will be all about eggs and caterpillars! This program includes a fun craft at the end so be sure to watch to whole video.
Craft packets can be picked up during Nature Center open hours until Labor Day Weekend 2024.
Click the link below for craft directions.
Grow and Go
Join Nature Center staff for our third Nature Explorers video of the season! Our third video's focus will be all about the chrysalis stage of the butterfly lifecycle! This program includes a fun craft at the end so be sure to watch to whole video.
Craft packets can be picked up during Nature Center open hours until Labor Day Weekend 2024.
Click the link below for craft directions.
A New Beginning
Join Nature Center staff for our fourth and final Nature Explorers video of the season! Our fourth video's focus will be all about butterflies after they emerge from their chrysalis! This program includes a fun craft at the end so be sure to watch to whole video. Make sure you comment a picture of you and your craft to be entered into a raffle!
Craft packets can be picked up during Nature Center open hours until Labor Day Weekend 2024.
Click the link below for craft directions.
Join the Nature Center on an early spring wildflower walk through the woods. In video one we focus on the first flowers that bloom in the spring woodlands in Northern Illinois. Download the nature colors scavenger hunt page to join in finding the colors of spring during the video. Places to visit and find these flowers in the local area include: Franklin Creek State Natural Area (Franklin Grove), Lowell Park (Dixon), and Amboy Marsh Nature Preserve (Amboy). Please enjoy these gems by leaving them for others to view. View the video here.
Listen to the sounds of nature. Nature creates some incredible sounds from birds singing, bees buzzing, the sway of the trees in the wind, and the thunder of a storm. Have you ever closed your eyes and listened closely all around you? Use your ears to identify some common Woodhaven sounds in our What’s that Woodhaven Sound video! Do you think you can recognize every sound? Which ones remind you of Woodhaven? What is your favorite sound? View the video here.
How do fish get from the fish hatchery to the lakes around Woodhaven? Watch this video to find out how fish stocking works!
Join Jerry Corcoran, Lakes and Bait Shop Manager at Woodhaven Lakes, to learn out to tie a fisherman’s knot. Also known as the improved clinch knot, this is the knot every person who likes to fish should know in order to attach a hook to the line. View the video here.