United Way’s Day of Caring brought a team of volunteers to Haddam-Killingworth to install a permanent “Born Learning Trail” in the courtyard of RSD17’s Central Office building on Little City Road in Higganum Wednesday morning.

The trail is one of several throughout Middlesex county that are being installed as an early learning tool. The trail features a series of signs on posts with fun, physical activities for parents and caregivers to do with their children.

Volunteers spent the morning digging holes, cementing the posts into the ground, attaching learning signs from the United Way to the posts and painting stencils with letters, numbers and shapes on the ground to create the learning trail.

One of Middlesex United Way’s goals is to “increase children’s readiness to learn by school entry. Day of Caring is one way in which United Way can help achieve this goal and provide an early learning tool for communities in Middlesex County.”

Other trails will be installed in Cromwell, Westbrook, East Hampton, Clinton and Old Saybrook. The trails are installed in a public setting for everyone in the community to enjoy.