Carpenter Nature Center is a great place to celebrate your child’s birthday! These two hour adventures include one hour of naturalist-led activities and a one-hour room rental where you can do your own family-led activities. All programs include fun activities, a hike with the naturalist, and a live animal presentation. Adventures are for ages 5 years and up.

Party themes can include one of the following:

“Hoppy” Birthday!– Where do rabbits live? What do wild rabbits eat? What do they do during the winter? Find out by taking an outdoor hike and meeting a live rabbit.

Sky Hunters– Have you ever wondered what a bird of prey eats or how it flies? Learn this and many exciting features about raptors…and you’ll get to meet a Great Horned Owl or a Red Tailed Hawk!

Wildlife Adventures– What animals live at Carpenter Nature Center? Search for animal clues while on a hike, and then get a close up look at some live animals.
Slither, Crawl and Hop- Snakes, frogs, and salamanders, oh my! Investigate places where some of these critters live and meet some live reptiles and amphibians!

Insect Safari– Explore the world of insects up close! We’ll hike to a grassland to go on an insect hunt with sweep nets and bug jars, then release the critters back to their homes.

Apple Cidering Party– Visit the apple orchard and help make apple cider the “old fashioned” way. You’ll even get a taste of cider at the end!  For this program, participants will pick and take home 2 apples and there will not be a live animal presentation.

Tracks!– Winter is the perfect time to see evidence of animals!  We’ll hike to find tracks in the snow and try to figure out which animal left it and what it was doing.