Youtube Channel (All Ventura Wild offerings are on Ventura Land Trust channel)
Virtual Group Program Series (Click here to sign up!)
- Backyard Adventure Videos to help kids connect to the nature of their own backyards
- How-to DIY videos for wilderness skills of all kinds
- Storytime with Ventura Wild Staff!
- Show & Tell videos for when you can’t go outside or to a specific location in person yet
- Parent Videos
- Thematic series and full classes by age, length of time, topic, location and staff…stay tuned!
- Backyard Adventures
- Sensory Awareness – with Trudy
- Discover your backyard with Heather
- How to make Nature Soap from Ceonothus with Heather
- Make a nature journal
- Make your own nature museum
- Gardening
- Powerful Weeds
- Explore the creek with Heather
- Foraging
- Sensory Awareness 101 with littles
- Sensory Awareness 101 for adults
STORYTIME!
– Trudy reads “Finding Wild”
How-to DIY:
- How to make hand sanitizer using an aloe plant with Katie
- Designing a Fairy House – Indoors with Jenny
- Fairy House Construction – Outdoors with Jenny
- How to Make a Flower Press with Sara
- Pine needle baskets
- Plant scavenger hunt
- Muddy print identification
- Bird watching
- Plant ID and uses
- Watershed models
- Jacaranda seed pod earrings
- Nature journaling
- Bug searching and observations
- Egg carton collections/sorting of nature treasures
- Toilet paper roll binocular making and backyard animal watching – (younger kids)
- outdoor kitchen
- fairy houses
- plant painting
- Leaf identification
- Intro to knot tying
- Backyard Maps
- WORMS
- Backyard Composting
- Sow seeds in egg carton
- 3 ways to reuse T.P. rolls
- Seed Paper
- Animal Yoga (5 poses to try with your child)
- Beach Day
- Trash clean-up & Exploration
- Trash Art
- Tide Pool Exploration
- Rock/ Seashell hunting
- Song writing
- TP roller shakers and other DIY instruments
Show & Tell videos for when you can’t go outside
- Heather’s Backyard!
Parent Videos
SOON: Thematic series and full classes…stay tuned!
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