Cool Activities for Children and Youth at March 22 Green Living Expo

Be sure to bring your children to the March 22nd Green Living and Energy Expo at Riversprings Middle School.  New to this year’s event are fun, educational activities for children and youth.  Offered from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. are make-and-take activities, hands-on labs and workshops, and outdoor events.

Some activities such as the Green Living Scavenger Hunt at noon and Planting Trees on the school campus at 10 am are appropriate for children of almost any age.  So, too, are the enchanting EcoTales that will be told by renowned storyteller Saundra Kelly at noon.  Students in all grades will enjoy making cool puppets (pictured at left)  with local artist Paul J. Fortier using only discarded materials.  At 10 or 10:30 a.m., the entire family can join Della Parker-Hanson and son Jonah for a Family Yoga Session.

For middle school students, there are interesting indoor workshops such as Simple Living for Kids and How to Start a School Green Team.  Also offered are outdoor labs on Passive Solar Heating and Cooling and Trash and Recycling.

Water Wise is a workshop that late elementary and middle school students won’t want to miss.  Older elementary students and up will enjoy making a solar oven (that actually cooks!).  They may also learn how worms can eat their garbage – and leave with their own vermi-composting system.

At Expo Central (in the cafeteria), look for the EcoKids Activity Center on the stage.  The EcoKids Center features ongoing activities at multiple stations for younger children.  Here the YMCA will offer an activity called All We Need Is Trees. Members of the Iris Garden Club will help children make nature-themed placemats and craft wind chimes from seashells.  Children will learn and sing a Solar Song.  The 4-H Arts & Crafts Club will help children create charming birdhouses from empty ½ gallon cartons.  Each child will decorate a carton to create a house complete with entrance hole and perch for nesting birds.

High school students may choose between the adult workshops and activities for youth such as the workshops on simple living and starting a school green team and the tree planting, outdoor labs, and scavenger hunt.

See below for a complete schedule of the EcoActivities for children and youth, or look for the special section in next week’s edition of The Wakulla News, or visit www.greenlivingenergyexpo.com.

2008 Green Living and Energy Expo
EcoActivities for Children and Youth 

 
- Submitted by Lynn Artz 

This article originally published on March 17, 2008.

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Lynn Artz

 

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