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Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Hike and Seek Evening for 5th - 6th Graders
Join the FRNC team as we play a large, group session of hide and seek in the RNC forest.
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Garden Prep
Spring into spring, roll up your sleeves and dive into the vibrant world of gardening. As nature awakens from its winter slumber, it's the perfect time to prepare our gardens for a season of abundant growth and beauty.
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Jurassic Park
Children will learn to identify common dinosaurs by name and search for clues that dinosaurs once ruled Rye!
Pollination Nation
Join us as we learn about our local pollinators including honeybees, butterflies, bats, hummingbirds, and moths.
Forces of Nature
Dive into the mesmerizing world of natural phenomena, from the delicate dance of seeds falling from trees to the majestic flow of rivers downhill.
Scales and Long Tails
We will learn about two fascinating group of animals - reptiles and amphibians. We will hike in search of local reptiles and amphibians including eastern box turtles and spring peepers.
Aquatic Detectives
Guided by a FRNC naturalist, children will visit the pond to search for clues of aquatic lifecycles.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Intro To Birding
Learn more about our local birds as they start to migrate back to the area.
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Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Family Campout
This is the perfect way to introduce your family to the joys of camping. Bring your own tent or borrow one of ours (supplies limited) the price includes dinner, breakfast, and a guided hike.
This event is for members only
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Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Pond Investigation
Come to the Nature Center and learn all about the animals that call our pond home!
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Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Wilderness Encounters - Spring Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
How Do You Play In The Mud?
Join us for a muddy adventure in nature! While the chefs are cooking, learn more about the Forest School’s approach to play-based and nature-based education from FRNC Educator(s).
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June Bugs - Morning Program: Week 1
Children ages 3.5 through 6 years old will connect with nature through outdoor activities, arts and crafts, games, and hands-on ecology lessons.
June Bugs - Afternoon Program: Week 1
Children ages 3.5 through 6 years old will connect with nature through outdoor activities, arts and crafts, games, and hands-on ecology lessons.
June Bugs - Morning Program: Week 2
Children ages 3.5 through 6 years old will connect with nature through outdoor activities, arts and crafts, games, and hands-on ecology lessons.
June Bugs - Afternoon Program: Week 2
Children ages 3.5 through 6 years old will connect with nature through outdoor activities, arts and crafts, games, and hands-on ecology lessons.
June Bugs - Morning Program: Week 3
Children ages 3.5 through 6 years old will connect with nature through outdoor activities, arts and crafts, games, and hands-on ecology lessons.
June Bugs - Afternoon Program: Week 3
Children ages 3.5 through 6 years old will connect with nature through outdoor activities, arts and crafts, games, and hands-on ecology lessons.
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 1
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Summer Camp - Week 1: Oceans and Aquatic Animals
Learn about creatures both big and small that live in the Blind Brook, the Long Island Sound, and beyond. Discover the amazing adaptations at work under the sea and in the pond!
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 2
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Summer Camp - Week 2: Sustainable Science
Grab your goggles and lab coats as we experiment and observe the chemical reactions that result in the greenest scientific and engineering achievements.
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 3
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Summer Camp - Week 3: My Architect is a Real Animal
Animal homes tell us an incredible amount about the life and behavior of a species. We will discover why location is key to the survival of termite mounds; observe how beaver dams impact their local environment; and uncover the effects of rising water temperatures on coral reefs.
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 4
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Summer Camp - Week 4: Ready, Set, Survive
Learn how to outsmart predators, adapt to the demands of nature, and survive in the wild woodlands of Rye Nature Center.
Summer Camp - Week 5: Geology Rocks! Can you dig it?
Become a geologist while discovering local rocks in the RNC quarry. Grasp how experts have used layers of rock in an effort to look at history, while seeing evidence of glacial activity and erosion on our very own property.
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 5
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 6
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Summer Camp - Week 6: Extreme Ecosystems
Discover the incredible ways animals use their instincts and specialized abilities to survive in places that seem impossible for life to thrive.
Summer Camp - Week 7: Grow It, Chop it, Eat it!
Get to the root of it in this fun, food-filled week as you pick, prepare, and feast on garden fresh vegetables.
Paddle Adventure Camp - Week 7
This all-levels program is designed to introduce campers to the joys of kayaking and hiking throughout the beautiful Hudson Valley region. Our goal is for participants to build paddling skills, hiking etiquette, confidence, and friendships in a safe, exciting, and fun atmosphere.
Forest Explorers - Spring Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Old-Fashioned Winter’s Afternoon/Member Day
Enjoy log-sawing, maple sugaring, crafts, winter-themed carnival games, and more at this 48-year-old Rye tradition!
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My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Wilderness Encounters - Winter Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
Forest Explorers - Winter Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Maple Sugaring
Learn how to tap a maple tree! Families will learn about the process of creating maple syrup and get a tour of our Sugar Shed.
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Winter Survival Guide
Children will join FRNC educators to design and build their very own structures out of natural and recycled materials.
The Power of Ice
We will learn about glaciers, ice cores, and even pot holes, as children investigate the properties of water when it freezes and how it impacts the living and nonliving things surrounding us!
Winter Birds
Do all birds fly south for the winter? Learn about the birds who live at Rye Nature Center during these snowy months.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Wilderness Encounters - Winter Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
Forest Explorers - Winter Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Maple Sugaring
Learn how to tap a maple tree! Families will learn about the process of creating maple syrup and get a tour of our Sugar Shed.
REGISTER >
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Wilderness Encounters - Winter Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
Forest Explorers - Winter Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
My Naturalist and Me
Stop by this fun-filled hour with your child(ren). Learn all about nature through fun activities like animal meet and greets, crafts, and short hikes.
Wilderness Encounters - Winter Session
Take the next step in your naturalist education! This immersive outside program challenges participants to use their imagination, energy, and teamwork to better understand our local woodlands.
Food Science
Groups will light a light bulb with a potato, see the reaction of baking soda and vinegar volcanoes, and get creative with messy Mentos geysers.
Forest Explorers - Winter Session
This program uses Swiss concepts and the principles of place-based education to encourage children's connection with the natural world and nurture their curiosities.
Winter Walk
Put on your snow boots, scarf, gloves and jacket as we explore local forest wildlife in the winter season. Hot chocolate will be served!
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Summer Camp Registration Opens
Registration opens soon for camp at Friends of Rye Nature Center! Our 47-acre preserve offers adventure, ecological exploration, and hands-on scientific inquiry in a fun and inclusive environment. Guided by a commitment to health and safety, our programs follow Westchester County Department of Health requirements and promote environmental stewardship.
Animal Meet and Greet
Join us for a meet and greet with the Nature Center animals! Children and families will get to learn about our resident mammals, reptiles, and birds.
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Candle Making
Join us for some festive fun! Children and families will make their own colorful candles to light up the holidays.
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Turkey Hike
Join our staff as we search for local turkeys in the forest and create a Thanksgiving craft.
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Pumpkin Smash and Composting
Not sure what to do with all those leftover pumpkins from Halloween? Bring them to the Nature Center and learn how smashing them up and composting them can be great for the earth!
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Veterans Birding Club and Coffee
Interested in birding? So are we! We welcome Veterans of all ages and abilities to join one of our Naturalists for birding and warm beverages.
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