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Saturday Brash, Brave and Brainy Book Beasts! Lively storytelling performances invite children to imagine and participate in the wild and wonderful world of animals. www.storylore.net Sunday 1pm & 3pm David HB Drake, Singer All Ages What a Wonderful World Enjoy songs that teach kids (and their adults) to live together with respect for themselves, each other and the world. Every day is Earth Day with earth-friendly songs. www.davidhbdrake.com All Weekend 
Organic Valley All AgesOrganic Valley Authors / Bean Bag Toss / Booth / Bus 
Build-a-Lawn All AgesNotebaert Nature Museum Turn boring turf lawn into a teeming prairie filled with native grasses and wildlife in this interactive game for children and families. Traveling Bug Brigade All Ages University of Illinois Extension Join Extension staff and master gardeners to learn about the wonderful world of insects. Touch and hold live bugs, including millipedes, Madagascar hissing cockroaches and a tarantula! Worm (vermi) composting All Ages University of Illinois Extension Visitors will learn the basics of worm composting and red-worms, one of nature’s best recyclers. Live demos teach how to costruct and maintain an indoor worm composting bin. Live Animal Encounter All Ages John G. Shedd Aquarium Meet a local aquatic animal and explore its watery habitat. Aquatic Dress-up Ages 3-7 John G. Shedd Aquarium What is it like to be a sea turtle, sea jelly or stingray? Dress up like one and find out! Monarch Flyway Ages 3-9 Chicago Wilderness Design and build simple butterfly wings, then don those wings and run along flapping through an obstacle course simulation of a monarch flyway—the 2,000 mile migration route to and from forests high in the mountains of Mexico. Black Ecology Suitcase Ages 9-13 DuSable Museum of African American History Storytelling, artifacts, books, seeds, herbs, and roots are used to explore how African people developed ingenious ways of using the earth. Explore simple recycling methods such as hand-me-down clothing and quilting to complex sustainable gardening and composting techniques that were used to survive and contribute to the larger community. Renewable Energy Vehicle Ages 12+ Field Museum of Natural History This van runs on waste vegetable oil. It also sports solar panels on the roof and a solar-powered amplifier with iPod docking station and microphone. Explore various types of fuels, pour WVO into the gas tank, and learn about photons and electrons. Check out a slide show and video segments on the solar powered LCD screen inside the van! |
Join us for fun, interactive activities all weekend that explore the world around us. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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