Take a Walk with Your Kids

Video Transcript

"Well now we're going to actually do a little bit of a nature walk. We're going to leave the yard where everything is pretty much, it doesn't have a lot of trees, no tall grasses and we're going to go into an area where we have a little bit more diversity of plants and trees and grasses and that kind of thing. The benefit for that, you know again, talking about connecting kids with nature, I think it's very important, is you can help them, you can talk to the kids about how everything looks different in the winter, you can talk with the kids about animals that hibernate, you can continue to look at the different types of animal tracks. Just lots of different things that you can do. And you know again, it's getting them exercised, getting them fresh air, helping them to appreciate nature. Well what we're doing now is we're finding some of the different tracks and the kids are following them a little bit of a ways, we're trying to figure out what some of the different trees are and we're just basically just talking about what we see and having conversations about that. Look over here guys, see the tree? What happen, what do you thin happen to this tree over here? What do you think did that? A lion. A lion, do you think there's lions out here? No. No, I don't think so. I don't know. Where do you think some of the animals that are hibernating are staying at? Do you think they're in the ground? Are they in maybe a log? Yeah. Just having conversations about where the animals are because things are very different in the winter and why do they think some animals don't hibernate and other ones do. "