Outdoor Explore! Is the Jacksonville Zoo’s free family nature club. Each month we meet in a different location to explore the green spaces around our city and interact with the natural world! Outdoor Explore! is intended for children in 2nd-5th grade and their siblings of all ages!
Giving your child the opportunity to play outside is a precious gift with many positive benefits. Nature play helps kids to:
- Build resilience
- Be observant and focus attention
- Boost academic performance
- Enhance creativity, critical thinking, problem solving
- Develop the use of senses
- Develop self-control
- Develop respect for all living things
- Discover and understand feelings
- Develop social skills
- Practice risk taking and risk assessment
For more program information, click here.
Questions? Email our Nature Play Leader, The Green Spectacle at GreenSpectacle@jacksonvillezoo.org
Play Schedule:
Outdoor Explore! meets once a month at different locations around Jacksonville to participate in imaginative play and nature exploration as a family. Outings last from 10am-12pm. Below are the club days for the coming year.
Our April outing will be at the Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park - CLICK HERE for free registration!
Our activity this month will be a nature hike to an obersvation tower. We'll bring the binoculars!
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2020
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| March |
7th |
| April |
11th |
| May |
2nd |
| June |
6th |
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July
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11th
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August
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8th
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September
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5th
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October
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3rd
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November
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14th
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December
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5th
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Questions?