Family Activities

Join us for a relaxing crafting session using natural/repurposed materials to make ornaments, garlands, etc. to decorate your home or yard this winter!Materials provided, but feel welcome to bring items …

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

Explore the stories that snow can help tell us. From showing clues from critters to crystal formation to melting, snow can tell us a lot about our environment.

We will have crafting materials to make valentines, love notes/letters to nature. Some light refreshments and warm beverages will be provided. You'll be welcome to keep them private, or we can share them on our social media on Valentines Day! All ages welcome.

Join in on a decades long global citizen science project. All it takes is 15 minutes a day from February 13th through February 16th. Using the apps/websites Merlin and eBird, you'll record the types and number of birds you see during your observation windows on those days. You can observe in your own backyard, go …

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

*rescheduled to Feb. 15th While many plants lay dormant for the winter, there’s still a lot of green to be found in forest. We’ll leave at 2:00pm to go on a slow-paced, child led walk in the lower forest to learn about lichen and moss. We can collect some to bring back and examine under …

We will take a walk to our pond to explore and learn about the amphibians in the forest! Meet at the Center to leave at 2:00pm. All ages welcome.

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 the photos developed and share them in our next newsletter or you can stop in the Center to see them in person! Meet in the …

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 …