The above location at Gifford Pinchot State Park is the site of one of the 30 creativity stations that can be found across York County as part of the "Get Outdoors and Be Creative!" summer program.
Our family spent some time this week doing some letterboxing in York County, as the "Get Outdoors and Be Creative!" summer program from the Healthy York County Coalition officially kicked off on June 6. It's a sequel to last year's popular "Catch the Activity Bug" program, which had kids and their parents rustling through bushes and shrubberies to find those elusive ant and spider stamps.
Information about this year's program can be found at www.goyork.org, and the necessary book and materials for the program can be picked up at any branch of the York County Library System. Once again, there are 30 locations (called "creativity stations") to be discovered within York County's parks and kids have three months to find as many as possible and become eligible for a grand prize in October.
This morning, we were at two different locations at Gifford Pinchot State Park. Nine-year-old Sarah plowed ahead of us on the trails, clip-clopping in a fashion that would make King Arthur and Patsy proud. We read about Pinchot Park's history, the reverting of the farm fields that were once located there and how to recognize different types of trees in the ecosystem, such as the eastern red cedar, white oaks and, of course, the larch.
And -- success -- we found both creativity stations, meaning we're already 10 percent finished (3 of 30 stations).
There's much fun ahead again this summer, with this excellent program for kids and families.
haha...
The....Larch.