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Forest Explorers Kits

Help young children get in touch with nature through our Forest Explorers Kits (formerly the Forest Exploration Toolkits for Early Childhood Education). These kits are expanded with all new hands-on resources for young learners. 

Let’s Go Outside includes materials to facilitate and enhance outdoor experiences, such as magnifying glasses, field guides, trowels, butterfly nets, etc.  Bring Nature Inside is perfect for times or places it isn’t practical to bring children outside, but teachers still want to give them experiences of the natural world.  It has more indoor materials such as picture books, stuffed animals, and samples of natural materials.

Let’s Go Outside

This kit includes:

  • PLT Trees and Me

  • PLT Family and Friends

  • LEAF Field Enhancements

  • Field Guides (assorted)

  • Folding Reference Guides

  • This is How I Know

  • The Listening Walk

  • Leaf Man

  • Animal Track Cards

  • Bug Magnifying Viewer

  • Magnifying Glasses

  • Nature Discovery Cards

  • Trowels

  • Butterfly Nets

  • Blindfolds

  • Marking Cones

  • Plush Owl

  • Plush Chipmunk

  • Plush Robin

  • Animal Finger Puppets

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Bring Nature Inside

This kit includes:

  • PLT Trees and Me

  • PLT Family and Friends

  • PLT Spanish Lessons

  • LEAF Field Enhancements

    • Lesson 1: “Tree Hardware”

  • Wisconsin State Parks Reading List

  • Folding Reference Field Guides for Wisconsin’s Wildflowers and Trees

  • Wee Recyclers Activity Booklet

  • Wee Crafts Activity Booklet

  • Billy B Sings About Trees CD

  • Leaf Man

  • We Planted a Tree

  • Hummingbird and the Little People

  • This is How I Know

  • Why Would Anyone Cut a Tree Down?

  • Good-Night, Owl!

  • Look What I Did with a Leaf

  • In Grandpa’s Woods

  • Forest Trees of Wisconsin Poster

  • Wisconsin’s Forest Ecosystem Poster

  • Wisconsin Forestry Celebrating 100 Years of Growing and Giving Poster

  • Wisconsin’s Watchable Wildlife: Rivers and Wetlands Poster

  • State Tree of Wisconsin: The Sugar Maple Poster

  • Watch Me Grow WDNR Poster

  • Wisconsin Wildcards

  • Smokey’s Friends Wildfire Prevention Activity Cards

  • Tree Memory Cards

  • Tree Cookies

  • Natural Wooden Blocks

  • Forest Products Wooden Block Set

  • Plush Bat

  • Plush Otter

  • Plush Groundhog

  • Plush Chickadee

  • Tree Puzzle

  • Cinnamon Sticks

  • Magnifying Glasses (7)

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Heather Phelps

WCEE Resource Specialist

Contact Heather with any kit-related questions.

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