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Kat Kolburn

Kat Kolburn (Colburn) is Nature and Outdoor Recreation Supervisor who runs the Prairie Oak Nature Center for the City of Leawood, Kansas Parks, Recreation & Arts department.

Sep 28, 2026

18:11
Can you talk a little bit about what you offer here at the Nature Center?
18:15
Yeah so our nature programming is really varied depending on kind of the time of the year but my hope is that we are creating experiences with our nature programs that are easy and fun and memorable as they possibly can be for the kids and also easy and fun and clean easy pick up drop off for the parents.
18:36
I mentioned mud earlier one of my favorite things to do is come to the nature center we're going to do a mud program and you don't have to clean it up so you come Let your kid get all the great sensory experiences of playing in the mud, squishing it between their toes, and then you leave.
18:50
You don't have to clean it up at the end.
18:52
Just those really high quality nature experiences that people, you know, you like and you get to see them on Instagram, but creating them in real life can be really difficult.
19:01
But you can do it at the Nature Center without as much hassle and headache.
20:39
Looking ahead to winter, what happens at the Prairie Oak Nature Center in the winter?
20:43
Actually, we've got a new program that I'm really excited about because it's going to be my first time too.

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