Environmental Fun Fair

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courtesy Dane County Land and Water Resources Department

A station at the 2022 Environmental Fun Fair.

A station at the 2022 Environmental Fun Fair.

media release: Join Dane County Parks for an Environmental Fun Fair located on the grounds of our Lussier Family Heritage Center facility. This FREE fun afternoon will be full of hands-on, sensory activities centered around nature, outdoor recreation, and science. This is an inclusive event appropriate for ALL ages and abilities! Activities under both solar shelter, the big oak tree and the lower level of the Center. Parking is available at the Heritage Center and across the road at the Capital City Trail/Lower Yahara River Trail Trailhead (3102 Lake Farm Road).

Activities will include:

Face Painting - Antsy Pants Paints

Mobil Trash Lab - Dane County Waste & Renewables

Hiking Stick Decoration + Leave No Trace information - Ice Age Trail Alliance

Camping Demo with Sierra Club Four Lakes Group

LED Bugs– Dane County 4H

Rainfall Simulator - Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership

Biofact Exploration and Animal Adaptation Matching - Henry Vilas Zoo

Recycling Game - Sustain Dane

Book Bike - Monona Public Library

Bird and Nature Activities - Madison Friends of Urban Nature (FUN)

Birds of Stewart Park - Friends of Stewart Park

Induction Cooktop Demonstration & Guess the Watts  - Dane County Office of Energy & Climate Change

Bird Banding and Tracking - International Crane Foundation

Tree Climb (all ages and abilities) - Dane County Parks Arborists

Roadshow - Madison Children's Museum

Diagnostic Laboratory with Microscope - Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

...more activities coming soon

Restrooms are available near the front entrance of the Heritage Center. Spanish interpreters will be on site and available to help where needed.