Sandhill cranes are among the largest birds in Wisconsin, but imagine just how enormous they must appear through the eyes of a young child. Cranes are intriguing to watch, and even though they don’t ...

Holding up a sponge, a doll’s bed and a piggy bank, Nan Buckardt demonstrated a point about local wetlands and sandhill cranes. “These three items are metaphors for what wetlands provide the cranes, ...

Mallory built a crane with booms that resembled human arms. Nya constructed a road with doghouses on either side. And Jackson, he built a wrecking ball, consisting of a stone within a string cradle.