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TOT WALKS Location: Echo Hill Ages: 2 to 3 (children must be accompanied by an adult) Cost: Each walk $3 per child; accompanying adult attends for free. Pre-registration required. Instructor: Senior Park Naturalist Laura Bush Join us on these early adventures to discover nature at your local park! Leave the strollers behind as we take a walk outside to see plants and animals around us. We will use our senses to focus on each theme. Each one-hour program will include a walk and an indoor time of a story and craft. We are offering three walks of the same theme in a row; please select Session A, B, or C. WORMS Session A: Thursday, April 2, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Session B: Friday, April 3, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Session C: Friday, April 3, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM TURTLES Session A: Thursday, May 7, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Session B: Friday, May 8, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Session C: Friday, May 8, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM NATURAL EGG DYEING Date: Wednesday, April 8 Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Location: Echo Hill Lodge Ages: 10 through adult (children must be accompanied by an adult) Cost: $5 per person. Pre-registration required. Instructor: Senior Park Naturalist Laura Bush In time for Easter, we will experiment with natural dyes using wild plants and fruits and vegetables from the grocery store. Please bring a dozen or more hardboiled white eggs. Dress for a short walk outside to look for dye plants. BLUEBELLS HIKE Date: Saturday, April 25 Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Location: Bernadette Morales/Uplands Ages: 8 through adult (children must be accompanied by an adult) Cost: $5 per person. Pre-registration required. Instructor: Senior Park Naturalist Laura Bush Virginia Bluebells are one of America’s favorite wildflowers. Native to our area, they bloom for a few weeks in early spring, and “hide” later in the summer. They are also deer- and critter-resistant! Explore Bernadette Morales and Uplands Reserve to enjoy the bluebells, stroll along a bubbling brook, and see the ruins of the estate of Judge Large (a prosecutor in the Charles Lindberg case). This is a moderately hilly hike, about three miles in total. Meet at the parking lot of Bernadette Morales Nature Preserve, 103 Capner Street, Flemington. NATIVE BULBS Date: Saturday, April 25 Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Location: Arboretum Ages: adults Cost: $17 per person. Pre-registration required. Guest instructor: Judy Glattstein Bulbs are those lumpy underground food reserves that plants use to get through hard times such as winter cold. You are probably familiar with all the spring blooming “foreigners” such as daffodils and crocus. There are native plants that also grow from bulbs, such as trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, and even native lilies. This class will begin with a well-illustrated lecture, after which we will go out on the Arboretum grounds to look for native bulbs. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. Judy Glattenstein has been a popular instructor at The New York Botanical Garden and Rutgers Gardens in college-level classes, as well as a lecturer across the United States and abroad at many garden clubs. She has guided a variety of garden tours around the United States and Europe and is an author of nine books on gardening. Explore her website at www.bellewood-gardens.com. All programs require pre-registration. To download a registration form, please visit http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/depts/parks/parks.htm. For more information on Hunterdon County Division of Parks & Recreation, please call us at (908) 782-1158 or email us at parks@co.hunterdon.nj.us.