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The Poconos
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Poconos Nature Programs for Kids
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area has free self-guided tours for kids in their Junior Naturalist program. It's lots of fun, tempting for adults. Here's how it works: Kids get a Discover Pack, which contains items necessary for completed a given task. Kids can select their task from a group of six suggestions. When your child completes the objective, he or she earns a Junior Naturalist patch. The patch means that now your child can do the Self-guided Junior Ranger Program, which guides the child through several activities at his or her own pace, over several visits to the park.Monroe County Environmental Education Center also has program for children. There are programs about animal tracks, insects, worms...you get the picture. These are more scientific-based, so there is some serious...but still fun...learning going on here.
The Nature Conservancy in Northeastern Pennsylvania has 14,000 acres and has named The Poconos one of hte world's "Last Great Places". The Conservancy employs teenagers to maintain the trails and perform cleanup duties in the park area. The have the Kids' Conservation Corps for ages seven through twelve, each summer. They also have programs that involve adults, too!
Poconos Learning Activities for Kids
There are some attractions where you can take your kids and they learn about Poconos history or culture, and have a great time doing it. For example, there is the Driebe Freight Station in Stroudburg. They have all sorts of programs and activities for kids, all based on history...historical crafts for example. Contact them for the latest schedule.Another fun learning place for kids is the Mauch Chunk Museum and Culture Center. They have an annual art show in their gallery, featuring the work of kids.
Then there are historical building-museums for your kids to explore, such as historical classrooms, where they can roam amongst the antique desks and imagine what it was like to go to school in a one-room schoolhouse. One such place is The Bell School in Stormsville, in the Jim Thorpe area of the Poconos. There's also The Old Jail Museum, The Pocono Indian Museum, tehe Schocopee Schoolhouse, and the Mary Stolz Doll & Toy Museum. All of these places have special activities for kids, or else are just plain made for kids.
Water Activities for Kids in the Poconos
Just as the Poconos region is full of all sorts of various bodies of water from creeks to large lakes to the mighty Delaware, this region is also chock full of man-made water activities as well. These parks aimed at providing your kids with hours and hours of fun playing in the water. Picture water slides, nature pools brimming with wildlife for your kids to gawk at and learn about, complete with workshops and self-guided tours just for kids. Imagine bumper boats, wave pools, multiple enormous water slides, water balloon battles, and endless fun, and that's a full day.Play Parks
Play Parks usually have a combination of activiites for kids, and sometimes play parks include water activities described above. That is, sometimes for one admission price you and your kids get to ride bumper boats and then perhaps ride some go-karts, play miniature golf, ride in antique cars, play archery, you name it, all in the same park. There are several of these places throughout the Poconos. Each one has its own flavor of fun, but here's a sampling of things to do:
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