Depew’s Reinstein Woods Fall Festival Invites Kids to Experience Nature Hands On

When you offer to take your kids somewhere that they can learn, you are apt to be met with a series of groans and pleading.  The notion of going on a trip to learn simply doesn’t offer a great deal of appeal.  With that in mind, however, helping your children to learn more about nature and the world around them can be easy if you also make it fun.  This is where Depew, New York’s Reinstein Woods Fall Festival comes into play.

The fall festival is an annual event with a number of exhibits and participants.  People come from all over to explore the nature preserve, which offers many hands on exhibits and experiments for people of all ages to enjoy.  There are numerous biologists on site to help explain some of the unique things found on the preserve, and they are able to do so with a sense of fun and excitement that really helps younger guests to enjoy themselves.

Every year, there is one part of the festival that proves more exciting than any other for younger visitors.  There is a special exhibit that allows kids to explore a lily pond on the preserve.  Each child is given a net and allowed to catch any bugs, frogs, or other critters that they can find.  They are then able to take their net of findings to one of the biologists who will offer them unique facts about each creature.

Reinstein Woods is located in Cheektowaga, only a couple of minutes from the Village of Depew.  Here, visitors of all ages will find miles of nature trails as well as numerous exotic plants and animals spread among 292 acres of woods.  The park offers excitement and entertainment throughout the year, but there is no event quite as magical and appealing to kids as the Fall Festival.