Ages 6 months – 18 months

Nature Baby is a fun community of infants and their caregivers! Our club is sure to be full of songs, sensory activities, and connecting nature-loving families together! Children and caregivers have the chance to explore and learn together, as well as meet other families who love and value nature. Caregivers will also learn new ways to explore nature with their young ones. Hikes will be at an adults-carrying-babies pace - please bring a carrier for your child during the hike.

We will meet weekly to:

• Have a sharing circle
• Sing nature songs
• Do action rhymes
• Learn and practice naturalist skills (for adults)
• Share nature knowledge (for adults)

Caregiver-accompanied club

Ages 18 months – 36 months

Waddlers is a fun community of toddlers and their caregivers! Our club is sure to be full of songs, sensory play, and connecting nature-loving families together! Children and caregivers have the chance to explore and learn together, as well as meet other families who love and value nature. Experienced leaders encourage participants to experience nature with all of their senses, ask questions, nurture their sense of wonder, and help them care for nature in High Park. Caregivers will also learn new ways to explore nature with their young ones. Hikes will be at a toddler pace.

We will meet weekly/every other week to:

• Have a sharing circle
• Explore nature through all of our senses
• Sing fun nature songs and do silly action rhymes
• Explore plants and animals
• Learn and practice our naturalist skills
• Share nature knowledge

Caregiver-accompanied club

Ages 3 – 5

Knee-High Naturalists is a fun community of pre-schoolers and their caregivers! Our club is sure to be full of songs, sensory play, and connecting nature-loving families together! Children and caregivers have the chance to explore and learn together, as well as meet other families who love and value nature. Experienced leaders encourage participants to experience nature with all of their senses, ask questions, nurture their sense of wonder, and help them care for nature in High Park. Caregivers will also learn new ways to explore nature with their young ones. Hikes will be at a child pace.

We will meet weekly/every other week to:

• Have a sharing circle
• Explore nature through all of our senses
• Sing fun nature songs and do silly action rhymes
• Explore plants and animals
• Learn and practice our naturalist skills
• Share nature knowledge

Caregiver-accompanied club

Ages 18 months – 5 years

Fox & Kits is a fun community of mixed-age children in their early years and their caregivers! Our club is sure to be full of songs, sensory play, and connecting nature-loving families together! Children and caregivers have the chance to explore and learn together, as well as meet other families who love and value nature. Experienced leaders encourage participants to experience nature with all of their senses, ask questions, nurture their sense of wonder, and help them care for nature in High Park. Caregivers will also learn new ways to explore nature with their young ones. Hikes will be at a child pace.

We will meet weekly to:

• Have a sharing circle
• Explore nature through all of our senses
• Sing fun nature songs and do silly action rhymes
• Explore plants and animals
• Learn and practice our naturalist skills
• Share nature knowledge

Club spots fill very quickly! Be prepared for registration day by reading the tips below, and by making sure you already have an account.

Click here for tips for registration day.

Our Happy Camper Fund Bursary has been extended to include Nature Clubs! If you are in need of financial aid to attend our programs, please apply here.

Please note you will need to register for a club first before we look at your bursary application.

For all programs, children MUST be of the minimum age of the program on or before the start of the program.

Our Nature Clubs are for registered participants who are within that club’s age range only. For our caregiver-accompanied early years programs, we allow “babes-in-arms” (babies who will be carried) to be brought to the program with their caregiver.

*Please note that if Toronto is in the grey lockdown framework, we will not be able to accommodate babes-in-arms during our programs as babies would put us over the limit of 10 people who can gather outdoors.

If you need more information on our sibling policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at 416-392-1748 or info@highparknaturecentre.com.

Please note, High Park is closed to cars on the weekends. If your program is on a weekend, you will need to park outside the park and walk in, or take transit (we are just south of High Park subway).