Wave Hill Programs

This public garden in the Bronx offers many ways for the youngest visitors to commune with nature, including art, storytelling and, this week, a bird walk. This Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Wave Hill House, the weekend family art project, “T’s of Summer,” will involve sketching a favorite garden scene and then using fabric markers to put the image on a T-shirt. On Sunday only, at 8 a.m., children over 10 are invited to join adults in the garden’s Early Morning Bird Walk, in which the naturalist Gabriel Willow will introduce visitors to some winged early risers. On Thursday at 2 p.m., the summer’s last event in the Stories in the Garden series welcomes children ages 3 to 6 to hear tales in the verdant shade (or inside Wave Hill House if it rains). The program, “Animal Family Matters,” will be devoted to reading books about creatures and their relatives, including the P.D. Eastman classic “Are You My Mother?”