New activities for kids at local parks

As part of the United Way's Day of Action, volunteers built educational trails for kids at local parks, and updated murals.

Help kids get ready for kindergarten!

In this years annual day of action they built "born learning" trails at quinn park in utica and pinti field in rome.

Their intention, to get kids ready for kindergarten.

On each trail, there are about 10 posts with different activities and paintings to help boost language and literacy development.

Each year, the unted way comes up with a project to help the community.

Beckwith says: "21:12;46 "we know that kearning happens 0-4 years old and before they even reach school and it's really important that kids are actively learning and do different thing to keep them engaged and focuson their education, so these kids have signage that'll help parents and caregivers different thing that they can do with their children that are education and activity based.

21:13;06" two groups of volunteers worked on the "born learning" trails.

Two other groups worked on updating murals in local parks.