Join us in South Park for the 53rd Earth Day celebration!  We’ll have a wide range of fun crafts, activities, and info available about our planet’s amazing natural resources and how we can protect them.  Bring one recyclable aluminum can for our Cans For the Community drive as your price of admission!    TYKES

Groups and activities will include:  

Music by Lasting Memories Entertainment 

Watkins Museum: Clay seed pods 

Environs KU: Large collaborative prairie drawing and plants matching game 

KU Natural History Museum: Bird beak adaptations activity 

Outside For a Better Inside: Mrs. Kansas Earth talking to visitors about her work 

Kansas Land Trust: Plant presses, seed packet handouts, and yoga for kids. 

Douglas County Conservation District: The popular Steam Trailer showing how water moves in nature Master Gardeners: Plants giveaway 

Friends of Hidden Valley: Info table and signup for Hidden Valley cleanup 

Lawrence Public Library: Book bike and seeds giveaway 

Sierra Club: Petition signing and climate change games 

Sustainability Action Network: Sustainability game and solar oven-baked s’mores! 

Jayhawk Audubon Society: Info on World Migratory Bird Day and the importance of water for birds 

Oak Hill Cemetery Potter’s Field 

Community Remembrance Project: Info table