Kids learn lessons of nature at Ford Nature Center today

YOUNGSTOWN

If you plant them, they will grow.

That’s the program name and the lesson about a dozen kids learned through a story, craft and walk through the woods at Mill Creek MetroParks’ Ford Nature Center today.

The kids, most of them age 3 or 4, listened attentively and eagerly chimed in as Hillary Lenton, MetroParks naturalist, taught them how plants grow.

Lenton started with a visual lesson depicting how plants need sunshine, water and some help from other living creatures, and read a story titled “From Seed to Plant.”

All of that information wasn’t enough for some of the more-curious kids.

“Yeah, but how do caterpillars turn into butterflies?” one child asked.

The program also included a hands-on lesson.

Read more about this program and others offered by the MetroParks in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.