Best ways to keep kids in touch with nature while living in the city?

Central Park has lots of fun places, like the Boathouse or Beldevere Castle or the zoo, there's an awesome zoo in the Bronx somewhere, you can always take the train ';upstate'; (anywhere you can reach on the NYC-based railroads is really downstate, though) or out to Long Island for a day trip, etc.Best ways to keep kids in touch with nature while living in the city?
Lots of visits to the park, you can also try growing some plants and little veggie gardens in the house. This will also teach ids 'responsibility' of looking after something. I also have lots of indoor pamls throughout the house, you get buy massive ones from bunnings for $60, but average size for about $20 :)Best ways to keep kids in touch with nature while living in the city?
Take them to parks, or watershed.


Look at leaves changing colors,


Explain how flowers grow,


Plant flowers,


Go on a leaf hunt.


Press Flowers.
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I live in the outskirts of the city, and I ran into the same problem with my daughter when she was little. I would pack my car up and go to a park in the country and take nature hikes with her. I would also go on walks around our neighborhood, pick up leaves and flowers and tell her what they were. I also took her to the local farm show exhibit. She still loves it and she learned so much about farm animals that way. At the library we have a local parent magazine that give you lots of ideas of free or cheap stuff to do with your kids and lots of it would be outdoors.
the best thing you can do is take them out.


anywhere out of the four walls of a house and away from technology is getting them in touch with nature.





anything simple from a family walk and just stopping and looking at everything around them to a planned picnic to the park.





go on, take them away from all civilized communication and go all natural