Where Leisure Meets Learning
Why do we band birds? What does it tell us about their lives and the environment? How do we catch birds for banding? Come and find out!
Saturday and Sunday, March 12th & 13th, from 8 AM to noon, the Banding Coalition of the Americas will be setting up mist nets at the Kreher Preserve & Nature Center to offer visitors a demonstration on bird banding. Look for the nets at the main pavilion and at the bird viewing area on the powerline.
Join us Friday night, March 4th, between 6 and 8 PM at Kiesel Park to gaze through some very powerful telescopes and learn about some of the wonders of the universe.
We welcome the Auburn Astronomical Society who will be brining their experience, knowledge, and a variety of telescopes for you to gaze through. The event will also feature a short astronomy program, educational space movie, and some out-of-this-world snacks.
Remember to bring a flashlight and dress warmly. Please be aware, this program is not recommended for children under 6. Admission is $5 ($4 for members) – pay when you arrive.
Join the KPNC and the Auburn Public Library as we partner to celebrate “National Read Across America Day” with the National Education Center. National Read Across America Day coincides with Theodor Seuss Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) birthday and across the country, we celebrate by bringing together kids, teens, and books! At the KPNC, enjoy stories every 20 minutes at many locations around the Nature Center including the Nature Playground’s tree house, the campfire, the waterfall deck, Azalea Place, and among the trees on our trails. Visitors will also get to hunt for each page of our “story walk,” a book whose pages are along a short walk in the woods.
Read Across the Preserve is free – donations are welcomed. Cancelled in the event of rain – please watch our Facebook page for updates.
Campfire Cooking 2 continues where the first class left off. We’ll explore kabobs and Dutch oven cooking with some great demonstration and excellent food!
Enrollment is now open for the 2022/23 school year of Woodland Wonders Nature Preschool. Woodland Wonders is now offering a full-day option!
Woodland Wonders is Auburn’s first Nature Preschool – where we learn about nature, in nature, and for nature, embracing the great outdoors as our classroom.
Astronomy Night has been rescheduled to Friday, March 4th due to the extreme cold temperatures scheduled for this weekend.
Summer Ecology Camp: Sessions throughout the month of June. Available for rising 1st-7th graders.
Summer Adventure Camp: July 18-20. Available for rising 5th-8th graders.
Young Explorers Camp: Sessions throughout June and July. Available for 3yr olds to rising Kindergarteners.
Thank you to Mountain High Outfitters for supporting the KPNC as our 2022 camp sponsor!
Get out. Get active. Be inspired. Live your passon.
The winter session of our award-winning Forest Friends and Tree Tots series begins this week. Come and explore nature with us and spend some quality time with your little ones as you learn about the world around us!
Forest Friends is for children 3 to 5 years old and Tree Tots is for children 1 (walking) to 3.
Registration opens for Spring Break Camps on Monday!
The theme for 2022 Spring Break Camp is KPNC: March Madness. We’ll explore various animals in the natural world and how they would match up against each other based on survival characteristics.
Spring Break Camps are offered during both Auburn and Opelika city school spring break holidays.
The last Forest Friends & Tree Tots pop-up classes are this week! Don’t miss your chance to spend the morning with your kids, outside, with some great nature education!!
The Kreher Preserve & Nature Center’s Forest Friends Series offers early-childhood, nature-based education for children and their parents. Each program is designed for specific developmental stages and works to integrate nature into the life of you and your child(ren) from the very beginning.
Forest Friends is for children aged 2 to 5 and Tree Tots is for children aged 1 (walking) to 3. Each class is $12 per student.
