QUEEN BEE KIDS SING ALONGS IN THE RAILYARD PARK Get those kids singing, moving, and shaking! Join weekly Kids Sing Alongs with Queen Bee Music Association and the Railyard Park Conservancy. Teacher B leads the class through a variety of engaging music games and sing-alongs, from classics like 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little
DEMONSTRATION AND EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM Play, learn, observe and explore in Santa Fe’s living room: The Railyard Park! Originally Published in Tumbleweeds Magazine, August 21, 2021 As the mornings turn crisp and the golden lantern trees swell once more with seed pods, we welcome autumn back to Santa Fe. Fall brings
NATURE JOURNALING FOR EVERYONE Nature Journaling For Everyone An excerpt from our Embracing the Spring Thaw article for Tumbleweeds: Here at the Railyard Park Conservancy, we’ve been inspired to try our hands at nature journaling. Motivated by RPC volunteers, the book The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris (see Lynn Grime’s
THE LOST WORDS PROJECT This project is inspired by a book called The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton in 2017. The poems and paintings in the book focus on nature words that were removed from the Oxford Children’s Dictionary due to
RAILYARD PARK SCAVENGER HUNT The RPC has put together two Railyard-themed Scavenger Hunts - one for the littles and one for the teens and ‘tweens. The Scavenger Hunt for the younger kids encourages explorers to identify something soft, something rough, something with legs, or something with wings. The older version asks
DESIGN YOUR OWN PARK ACTIVITY Stretch your imagination to design and create a 3-D model representing the park of your dreams! Each day introduces a new activity to get kids outside and thinking about their local green space. Design Your Own Park PDF English Design Your Own Park PDF
Gardening for Climate Victory and Composting 101 Through a collaboration with our friends at NM Healthy Soil, Santa Fe Children's Museum and Plants of the Southwest, we put together a fun and informative packet about Climate Victory Gardens and starting your own Compost pile at home! PDF in English
