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Nature Babies
Nature Babies will experience a hands-on exploration of nature! They get to see and touch live animals, go on a guided hike to explore the woods, and work on a nature- themed craft using their fine motor skills. Please dress your little one for the weather – wear clothes and shoes okay for playing and painting! Please pre-register for this program.
Read the Storybook Trail and Craft
Join us for a guided hike on our Storybook Trail! We will read a story to you as you walk along the trail and then come inside to make a fun craft. The stories and crafts will be related to the current season.
Facility Pilcher Park Nature Center (Classroom) Program Age Fee Day Date Time
20-4-8117C 2-6 $5 Mon Oct 5 10a-11a Mystery Night Hike
Wizarding World and Magical Creatures fans, be sorted into your houses at Pilcher Park’s School of Magic, and help us solve a mystery in our Magical Forest! Listen to musical clues from your favorite wizarding movies; bring your sharpest senses, and quench your thirst for observing natural phenomena. One night only! No flashlights, please, but costumes are encouraged. Cost is per participating child. Registration is required. Dress for the weather.
Facility Program
Pilcher Park Nature Center (Classroom)
Age Fee
Day Date
Wed Sep 2-Sep 23 Wed Oct 7-Oct 28 Wed Nov 4-Nov 25
Time
9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a
20-3-8112D 1-2 20-4-8112E 1-2 20-4-8112F 1-2
Tadpoles
$40R/$45N $40R/$45N $40R/$45N
Join Tadpoles class for a hands-on exploration through nature with your toddler! Together you will see and touch live animals, explore the woods on a guided hike, and put your child’s fine motor skills to work with a nature-themed craft. Please dress for the weather – wear clothes and shoes for playing and painting! Please pre-register for this program.
Facility Program
Pilcher Park Nature Center (Community Room)
Facility Program
20-3-8111G 20-3-8111H 20-4-8111I 20-4-8111J 20-4-8111K 20-2-8111L
Pilcher Park Nature Center (Classroom)
Age Fee
Day Date Time
5+ $7
The Many, Many Lives of Seeds
Youngsters often tell each other to “Take a hike”! We’ll do just that, on and off-trail through Pilcher’s underbrush and forest edges, in an attempt to pick up, learn about, and understand the young of our woodland neighborhood. We’ll examine the seeds we pick up on our clothing, as well as those which we find under trees, or clinging to dried stems and in pods. We’ll take them to the shelter of our nature center building, examine them closely, under microscopes and discover their fantastic outer garb and ponder the strange workings of their inner worlds! then we’ll “put them to work” in an ephemeral work of art...because youth, even for plants, can be fleeting!
20-4-8424
Sat Oct 17 6p-8p
Age Fee Day
2-3 $40R/$45N Tues 2-3 $40R/$45N Thurs 2-3 $40R/$45N Tues 2-3 $40R/$45N Thurs 2-3 $40R/$45N Tues 2-3 $30R/$33N Thurs
Date
Sep 1-Sep 22 Sep 3-Sep 24 Oct 6-Oct 27 Oct 8-Oct 29 Nov 3-Nov 24 Nov 5-Nov 19
Time
9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-10:30a
Fungus Among Us
Is it a plant? Is it an animal? Come along and discover the world of fungi, the most important living things you’ve never heard of! Join us at Pilcher Park for an exploration of the myriad of mushrooms and their kin that help our forest thrive, from giant puffballs to crowned corals. Learn firsthand how to identify the deadly and the delectable as we examine the variety of fungi that pop up throughout the year. Dress for dirt, as we’ll be keeping a close eye to the ground on a hike through the woods!
Pilcher Park Nature Center (Community Room)
Facility Program
8+ $6
Looking for Volunteer
Opportunities?
Pilcher Park has a stewardship program that focuses on removing invasive plant species like buckthorn and honeysuckle in Pilcher Park. Keep an eye out for dates that will begin in the fall.
Be sure to like us on Facebook (Pilcher Park Nature Center) for scheduled dates.
If you have questions,
call 815-741-7277 or email pilcherpark@jolietpark.org.
Age Fee
Day Date Time
Age Fee
8+ $6 8+ $6
Day Date
Sun Sep 13 Sun Oct 11
Time
9a-10:30a 9a-10:30a
20-4-8215
Sat Nov 7 10:30a-11:30a
Facility Program
20-3-8417E 20-4-8417F
Pilcher Park Nature Center
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