Environmental Fun Fair

Join Dane County for an Environmental Fun Fair located on the grounds of our Lussier Family Heritage Center facility. This FREE event 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! 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).

In Front of the Center

ℹ️ Event information + All-terrain Wheelchair Info/checkout

 

Solar Shelter

🌳 Go up in a Bucket Truck - Dane County Parks Forestry + Arbor Systems

 Wind Turbine Design Challenge - Wisconsin Energy Institute

🚲 Bike Repair & Fix a Flat Demos - Bikes for Kids Wisconsin

💡 Discovering Basic Electricity - Wisconsin Science Museum

 Recycle Better Game - Sustain Dane

  Will it Recycle and Recycling is Real games - Waste Management

⚡ Energy Efficient Dollhouse + Induction Cooktop Demo - Dane County Office of Energy & Climate Change

🚲 Make your own frozen treat - REAP Food Group

 

Under the Big Oak Tree

  Mobil Trash Lab - Dane County Waste & Renewables

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

🐘 Animal Art Matching Game - Henry Vilas Zoo

🌿 Nature Play - Eco Madison

 

By Red Barn

  Learn How to Disc Golf - Dane County Parks

 

Inside - Upper Level - Native Garden Learning Hub

🌸Native Gardening Learning Hub (Purchase a plant kit to pick up!) - Wild Ones Madison + Dane County Land & Water

  Rainfall Simulator - Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership

💡 Lights Out Wisconsin

🦋 Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative 

 

Inside - Lower Level

🎨 Face Painting - Antsy Pants Paints

🍁 Nature Craft - Madison School & Community Recreation

  See our Animal Ambassadors

🍃 Nature Curiosity & Conversation - Social and Moral Learning Lab (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

📖 Create a Bookmark Craft - Monona Public Library

 

Back Patio

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

🔬 Ecosystem Exploration on the Cellular level (microscopes) - City of Madison Parks Jr. Ranger Program 

⛵ Aquatic Invasive Species - Boat Search - Dane County Land & Water

🏞️ Enviroscape - Dane County Land & Water

⛅️ Environmental Systems Thinking Activity - Green & Healthy Schools

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Would you like to help make this event a success? Check out all available event support volunteer shifts and sign up here: https://bttr.im/j26ns (you will need to create an account in our volunteer portal in order to sign up).