Children and Nature Awareness Month, Week 3

Children & Nature Awareness Month l  Week Three

Awareness Month + Earth Week = Kids Outside

Network members are celebrating Awareness Month and Earth Week, getting kids, families and communities outside.

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Calling all kids, parents, and teachers!

The Biomimicry Institute invites you to join The Great TV Rebellion of 2010 by pledging to turn OFF your television and turn ON nature. Download our event Workbook and Nature Journal to get great ideas for a successful TV Rebellion!
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Fernie Earth Day Celebration
Organizer: Fernie Community Centre
Location: Fernie, British Columbia
Date: April 22

Green Play – Nature Sense Interaction
Trashy but Flashy Fashion Show
Trash 2 Treasure display of schoolchildren’s art
Free Tree Giveaway
Sorry 2 Interupt Slide Show
Eco Garden Seed Swap and Sale
Freecycle – Stuff to Give Away for Free
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Farmhands
Organizer: Appleton Farms
Location: Ipswich, Massachusetts
Date: April 20-April 23, 9am-12noon

Time to join our team! Appleton Farms invites interested youth to join our crew. Farmhands will work along side our staff and gain first hand experience with our milking jersey herd, our calving season and our seeding and planting season. FREE.
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Biomimicry Interpretive Trail
Organizer: Clark Fork Natural Park
Location: Missoula, Montana
Date: April 21

Missoula Mayor, John Engen, will officially debut and celebrate the new Biomimicry Interpretive Trail in the Clark Fork Natural Park alongside the Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula. This innovative urban trail offers new opportunities for kids and families to get outside to learn and explore together.
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Earth Day
Organizer: The Cabin Path
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Date: April 22

Special Workshops for Earth Day!
Home School Thursday 9 AM – Noon
Singing to the Trees Noon – 1 PM
Cabin Picnic 1 PM – 2PM
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Campfire Sing-Along
Organizer: Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
Location: Oceanville, New Jersey
Date: April 23

Bring a picnic basket and enjoy a family dinner together in our picnic grove; then join our volunteers for a nature walk. Finally, sit around a campfire (conditions permitting) and join Barry for a wildlife sing-along. A perfect way to end the evening!
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Acadia National Park – National Junior Ranger Day
Organizer: Sieur de Mont Springs Nature Center
Location: Bar Harbor, Maine
Date: April 24, 2010 from 12:30pm – 4:00pm

Bring a lunch and have your own picnic on the lawn, play habitat games, visit a beaver pond, learn about archeology and native plants, bring home your own creature creation from our art program and enjoy a hike in the woods! Rain or shine, dress in layers.
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Appalachian Mountain Club Soapstone Mountain and Shenipsit Trail Family Hike
Organizer: Appalachian Mountian Club
Location: Somers, Connecticut
Date: April 24

Celebrate Awareness Month with us. Family hike, 10:00am-12:30pm, moderate 3.5-mile loop. Short but steep ascent/descent of Soapstone Mountain with great view from fire tower at the summit. Bring beverage and lunch.
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Stark Parks Spring Nature-Rama
Organizer: Sippo Lake Park
Location: Canton, Ohio
Date: April 24

Stark Parks will hosts its first ever Spring Nature-Rama on Sat., April 24. This free half-day environmental conference for adults and older children will include four hands-on workshops, three hikes, raffles and door prizes, a keynote address, and the chance to win a weekend test drive of an eco-friendly Toyota Prius.
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Children’s Garden Spring Fling    
Organizer: Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Date: April 25th

Kick off the gardening season at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Children’s Garden Family Spring Fling. This community celebration offers family-friendly music, entertainment, activities, and food. The event coincides with Earth Day, and will include activities that promote environmental stewardship.
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Celebrate

“The purpose of Children & Nature Awareness Month is to celebrate the benefits of experiences in the natural world to children, and to all of us, and to offer alternatives to nature-deficit disorder,” said Dr. Cheryl Charles, President and CEO of C&NN.