Forest Friends Early Childhood Nature Club: Fall 2025

Join Felix the Fox and our wonderful outdoor educators for a series of four adventures at Upham Woods! Preschoolers and their grownups will discover shapes, colors, letters, and numbers in nature. A parent or guardian must accompany all participants each week for outdoor and indoor fun.

Activities:

  • Explore the forest guided by our friendly fox puppet and caring outdoor educators.
  • Practice shapes, colors, numbers, and letters
  • Meet new friends: other kids & caregivers, animal puppets, and our live educational animals.
  • Create a project to take home each week.

Audience: Youth ages 3-4 (by the first day of the series), accompanied by a parent or guardian

When: 10 – 11 AM on the following Tuesdays:

  • October 28, 2025
  • November 4, 2025
  • November 11, 2025
  • November 18, 2025

Where: Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center, N194 County Rd N, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Cost: $40.00 per child for the 4-week series. An email confirming registration will provide a payment link—no extra charge for accompanying adult(s). One adult may accompany up to two registered children ages 3-4. A separate registration form is required for each child.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 14, 2025

What to bring from home: Layered clothes and water bottles! Both children & adults should come dressed for the weather that day. We will spend at least the first 30 minutes outdoors, with some indoor time reserved at the end of each adventure.

Accessibility notes: Activities involve walking up to 0.4 miles on uneven trails through the forest and next to the WI River, with multiple engaging rest stops along the way.

Note for returning families: This session of Forest Friends will repeat activities from the Spring 2025 session.

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