Want to create a nature journal with your child? Grab some paper and a pencil, step out the front door and use this prompt.

Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Director of Education & Events Amy shows a new way to look at flowers – by dissecting them! Learn more all about the parts of flowers with us in this video.

We’re giving you some fun coloring activities! In honor of National Pollinators Week, we’ll be sharing a coloring page featuring a different pollinator every day. Beetles are one of the largest groups of pollinators. They’ve been pollinating flowers and plants longer than you may think.

Want to create a nature journal with your child? Grab some paper and a pencil, step out the front door and use this prompt.

You may have heard Great Parks team members talking about National Pollinators Week. You may have also heard heard how important it is to help pollinators. But why are pollinators so important and how do they affect the food we eat?

We’re giving you some fun coloring activities! In honor of National Pollinators Week, we’ll be sharing a coloring page featuring a different pollinator every day. Today’s coloring page features one of our nighttime pollinators, the moth. Moths help flower just as much as their butterfly relatives do.

Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. We’re exploring the prairie at Kroger Hills with Nature Interpreter Sarah today! Tune in as Sarah searches for the bugs, birds and plants that call this nature preserve home.

Want to create a nature journal with your child? Grab some paper and a pencil, step out the front door and use this prompt.