New to the Activity Cart

If you are a regular visitor to Hershey Children’s Garden you are familiar with the wooden activity cart by the children’s garden gate. The activity cart regularly features what is blooming on a particular day. The activity cart also serves as the starting point for a number of self-guided activities like our stroller strolls, prairie activity book and garden mystery trails.

Coming soon to the activity cart are a number of new self-guided activities aimed at literacy, learning botany, colors and basic mathematical concepts. I am very excited to add them to the many options parents have when visiting. I believe kids not only learn best from areas of interest but in a great environment.

Recent neurological research suggests that a child’s brain is largely developed by the age of three and the biggest contributing factor to brain hard wiring correctly is you, the parent. To this end, these additional activities are meant to give parents and children time together learning about rhyming and opposite words or how many different leaf shapes they can find in the garden.

Come on down and check it out.

Tags: Children's Gardening, cleveland, Hershey Children's Garden, Youth Gardening

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