April Vacation Adventure Days April 19, 2011

For children in grades K through 5. Sign up for the entire week or individual days. - Fee for the week (Tuesday through Friday): $145 member, $174 nonmember - Fee per day: $45 member, $54 nonmember - - Spring is an exciting time for outdoor discovery. We have put together four days of hands-on awesome activities to explore the natural world in spring. Sharpen your observation skills as we locate and learn about bugs, search for salamanders, watch birds gather nesting materials, and much more. Participants will be divided into smaller groups by age. - - Who Let the Bugs Out?: Tuesday, April 19 - Warm spring mornings send ladybugs, grasshoppers, spiders, and butterflies dancing around our fields. We'll bring along nets, bug boxes, and identification books to aid us in our bug safari. - - Vernal Pool Visit: Wednesday, April 20 - Today we'll hike to a real vernal pool and look for frogs, toads, and salamanders. Quietly, we'll tiptoe around the pool and look for breeding wood frogs and their egg masses. Participants will get to witness the amphibian life cycle before their own eyes. - - Splash, Splosh: Thursday, April 21 - Spring is the perfect time to visit a pond and search for underwater creatures. We'll pass nets through the water and place the plants and animals we catch into a basin for a closer peek. Dragonfly nymphs, water scorpions, giant water bugs, and snails are just a few of the amazing animals we will encounter. - - Eco-Excitement: Friday, April 22 - Today we'll honor Earth Day by creating a few fun, easy projects that benefit the earth. We'll learn how to harness the power of the sun to cook food and create mini-gardens out of recycled materials. Test your environmental skills in our recycling obstacle course! We'll also explore the sanctuary, and celebrate the plants and animals that live here with us. Registration is required. Call 978-887-9264 for details. See http://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=834-IP11SP5 for more information.