Share the Vision. . .

We are looking for individuals to help in the following ways:
  • Playground committee – Funding, planning, design, materials, physical labor to install play elements throughout and an enclosed Natural Playscape area.
  • Fundraising Committee – Grant writing, solicitations, Founding memberships, and other activities to build and develop all phases of the plan.
  • Gardening Committee – Installation, care, and promotion of on-site gardening, including a “Kids Community Garden.”
  • Building and Landscape committee – Hands on help with installation, renovations, and beautification of property.
  • Public Relations Committee – Marketing, communication, and “brand” development.
  • Education Committee – input on program curriculum development, home school programs, and coordination of resources.
  • Community Outreach – coordinate community resources, find community partners, and locate ways to serve the community.
Woodland Discovery is a non-profit and contributions are tax deductible.

How can you help?
  • Woodland Discovery is a new program and fills a missing need in children’s education. Help spread the word to your friends and neighbors!
  • Woodland Discovery is a non-profit 501(3)c Corporation, and all donations, cash or goods, are tax deductible. We appreciate your donation of toys, supplies, gardening goods, and other materials
  • Watch for grants and help apply for them
  • Support fundraising activities
  • Encourage partnerships & sponsorships from community and business partners
  • Participate in work days and beautification efforts
  • Chair or participate on a committee
  • Share your ideas!
  • Share your photos and testimonials
  • Pick a Family Improvement Project
A Sampling of project  ideas that YOU could help with:

YOUR TIME:                                     
  • Write Grants
  • Head up committees; particularly a capital campaign
  • Help with Marketing 
  • Set bricks and spread mulch into a labrynth
  • Kill weeds around pond 
  • Transport, dump and spread mulch
  • Fill pond erosion areas with gravel 
  • Clear and line new trails 
  • Spray poison ivy during growing season
  • Set up and maintain bird houses  
  • Plant gardens
  • Teach workshops 
  • Create outdoor sensory tables 
  • Adopt a letter of the alphabet to set up an outdoor activity station  
  • Prep fishing equipment  (untangle or restring) or come help kids fish                

YOUR SKILL & EQUIPMENT: 
  • Bring a bobcat to spread sand into a “beach” 
  • Install playground slides into a hillside 
  • Install Rope Bridge/High-low ropes/ and Zipline 
  • Construct a “stage” for performances               
  • Create and install musical garden                  
  • Design and make permanent markers for Orienteering Course
  • Install tire swings                            
  • Create a “climbing tree”                       
  • Cut felled trees into stumps, benches and cookies (chainsaw)                                
  • Cut smaller tree “cookies” from smaller limbs (tablesaw)                                        
  • Sand and seal deck                                        
  • Build a floating dock or Boardwalk onto lily pond                
  • Plumber to install outdoor faucet                   
  • Build Kiosks for outdoor play stations 
  • Create a "mud kitchen"
  • Build a "free lending library" box
  • Build a pen to secure ducks at night
  • Build outdoor sensory tables out of PVC

YOUR CONNECTIONS:                 
  • People and companies who can make contributions; grants or donations. 
  • In particular, we would like several Tree Service Companies to donate and deliver logs, stumps or branches 

YOUR DONATIONS:                       
  • Native Plants; seeds, bulbs, plant divisions            
  • A Permanent Wooden Sign                         
  • Outdoor Musical Equipment                 
  • Archery Targets                                   
  • Tree Fabric                                                
  • Outdoor benches                                 
  • Donations for annual yard sale                  
  • Outdoor picnic tables                                       
  • D Batteries for CD player/flashlights               
  • Climbing Structures
  • Bells to hang in trees
  • Tree "faces" 
  • Funds to give scholarships to deserving children
  • Pet snake and supplies
  • Small wheelbarrows
  • Fine Concrete mix
  • Live shoots of Willow and/or Bamboo

BOOKS FOR STORYWALK
StoryWalk® is an innovative and delightful way for children — and adults! — to enjoy reading and the outdoors at the same time. Laminated pages from a children's book are installed along an outdoor path. As you stroll down the trail, you're directed to the next page in the story.
StoryWalk® was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and has developed with the help of Rachel Senechal, Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
To create a story for the Storywalk - we need three copies of a Children's book - preferably with colorful pictures and not a lot of text.  

Ideas:  
Any Eric Carle or Lois Ehlert book - particularly about nature topics
Leaves by David Stein
Gossie by Olivia Dunrea
South by Patrick McDonnell
Over in the Meadow illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
One Duck Stuck by Jane Chapman
Where there once was a wood (and others) by Denise Fleming
Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
Around the Pond, In the Woods by Lindsay George