Family Activities

Join Red Oaks Forest School for their monthly art club at the Pinnacles! Free and open to all.

We’ll go on a child-led walk in the lower forest with film cameras and picture frames to focus in on parts of the forest we might overlook! We will get …

Join us and the Madison County Public Library to celebrate spring, caterpillars, and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more. We'll have a pop up library where you can read and check out books, as well as lots of crafts to learn and celebrate caterpillars, moths, and butterflies--amazing and essential animals in our ecosystem. …

Every being on Earth has a place and a right to life. We are all connected. Join us and the Art in Action team for Rat Appreciation Day on March 29th, 2:00-4:00pm at the Hafer-Gibson building. This is a celebration for World Rat Day (April 4th) as well as to acknowledge and shift perspective on …

Join us for an unforgettable evening of theatre under the open sky with Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest at the Berea Pinnacles! On April 18, experience The Tempest by William Shakespeare brought to life against one of Kentucky’s …

Learn how to inoculate logs with mushrooms with Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest (ASPI). This will be a free event and great for all ages.  

Learn how to make “bug hotels”--places that bugs can go to get out of the weather, lay eggs, or overwinter! They can be as simple or as complex as you’d …

Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (May 9th) by learning about the birds that call Berea home for some or all of the year! We will read the book "Is This …

We'll have plenty of activities to try and lots of ideas for a whole summer of fun. Enjoy music and the Berea College Forrest. Pick up info about all the fun events like festivals and concerts happening this summer in Madison County. These are some of the highlights for this year’s event: MusicYard gamesDisc golfSlack …

Use your creativity to paint a pot then plant a seed to take home with you! Part of SummerFest!

We will have microscopes set up to explore what natural things like leaves, bugs, and soil look like close up! Cancelled in case of bad weather. Geared towards elementary ages …

Join us for a craft celebrating our local butterflies! As we head into summer, keep an eye out for all sorts of different colors and sizes of butterflies. Geared towards elementary aged kids.