Monday, April 27, 2026
photos provided by the Dunham Children's Learning Center
To celebrate Earth Day 2026, the Dunham Children’s Learning Center had a special guest visitor and activity planner. Ben Myers, a Penn College horticulturalist and dad of Izabelle, of the Bunnies classroom, had a scavenger hunt for the toddlers. Children loved finding the “Earth” Myers hid, along with ladybugs, pine cones and other objects.
Myers also involved children from all the classrooms in planting a tree in the center’s courtyard.
Ben J. Myers, Penn College horticulturalist, shows toddlers the cool nature objects they can look for in an Earth Day Scavenger hunt in their courtyard.
Children successfully find a "hidden" Earth in their courtyard.
Myers supervises a capable helper in planting a new tree in the courtyard.
Children gather to get a close-up of an earthworm in Myers' hand.
Myers gets a special greeting from his daughter.
Another Earth Day treat: Flowers to take home.
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