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Join us for fun, interactive activities all day that explore the world around us through arts, crafts, movement and exploration.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Saturday and Sunday
Discovery Creek's Rolling Rainforest
All Day / Suitable for All Ages
Become an explorer of nature inside Discovery Creek’s Rolling Rainforest. Discover the beauty, biodiversity, and value of the rainforest ecosystem as you are magically transported to a neotropical rainforest with species from Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Central America.
Fair Trade Chocolate Postcard Coloring
All Day / Suitable for All Ages
Visit the Global Exchange chocolate postcard-coloring table to
color and sign postcards asking chocolate makers to go Fair Trade.
Saturday Only
Hooked On Nature
11AM/1PM/3PM
Learn how to share nature with your children in a song and story hour with lots of activities to get kids outside. Enjoy the awe and wonder that the natural world has to offer!
Geography Through Chocolate
12PM/2PM/4PM/5PM/For Kids K-6
What could make chocolate even sweeter? Making it Fair Trade! Volunteers will present Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Chocolate curriculum. Through hands-on activities, games and an interactive lesson, children will learn where and how cacao beans are grown and harvested.
Sunday Only
Wet and Wild
11AM/1PM/2PM
Learn about wildlife conservation through hands-on activities based on Project WILD and Project WET. Curricula presented by the District Department of the Environment.
Peace Dove and All Species Puppet Parade
12PM
Members of the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots program will “fly” giant peace doves. Each year, people around the world fly these doves to mark the Roots & Shoots Day of Peace, which Dr. Goodall established in support of United Nations’ peace endeavors. The parade will start in the Green Kids’ Zone and end on the Dining Area Stage.
Playing With Food
3PM-6PM For Ages 5 and Up
Join the FoodPrints gang for fun hands-on activities, games and exploration. You’ll learn how our food makes its way from farm to plate. FoodPrints is a collaborative of FRESHFARM Markets, American Institute of Wine & Food, Washington Youth Garden, UDC Ag in the Classroom and Warner Hanson Television. Also, join us to taste local foods and herbs, meet a local farmer, plant seeds, observe culinary demos and more.
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