River Bend Nature Center: Hands-On Nature Learning for Kids

You don’t have to drive far for an amazing nature experience for kids. River Bend Nature Center in Wichita Falls is your family’s new favorite educational experience. The Learning Center is a place your kids will want to dawdle. 🐍Touch live animals with staff guidance. 🪨Examine hundreds of rocks. 🔬Look closely with digital microscopes. 🧩Play with tables of STEM toys. 🪳Watch the many insects and tarantulas. Head into the Butterly and Nature Conservatory for more native animals and plants. 🐣See the free-roaming quail and their babies. 🐹Watch the prairie dogs’ antics. 🦋Look for hatching chrysalis in the butterfly garden. 🐢Go find the giant toad, rabbits, and turtles. Make sure you leave time to hike the nature trail outside or dig for fossils in the Children’s Garden or watch a nature video or buy a special treasure in the Gift Shop. 👉Check the online schedule so you don’t miss any of their special events. River Bend Nature Center means small town attention and lots of learning. Local families, what are you waiting for? (We would totally have a membership if we lived here!) . . 🎁Don’t forget to share this with grandma so she can get you a membership for Christmas!😉 . . . . This is the first of my series highlighting my hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas - check out the others! @discoverwftx . . And make follow me @reclaimingwonders as we learn our way around the US! . #riverbendnaturecenter #rbnc #nature-center #naturestudy #texaswildlife #texasteacher #discoverycenter #handsonlearning #handsoneducation @riverbendnaturecenter @discoverwftx #wichitafalls #wichitafallstx #texasroadtrip #exploretexas #onlyintexas #texastodo @txvacation