The sixth annual Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday Feb. 15 in the cafeteria at Ocean City High School (501 Atlantic Avenue).
The event is free and provides a great chance to get the kids out to do something educational, interactive and have loads of fun on President’s Day Weekend. This year’s program will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused, hands-on experiences for both children and adults. Last year’s event drew more than 850 parents and kids.
Some of the activities include:
- Small zoo animal interaction
- Marine life interaction
- Recycling arts and crafts
- Nature and environmental take-aways
- Food drive: Please bring non-perishable and staple foods and personal products to donate
- The importance of pollinating insects – show-and-tell
- Planting you own pollinator garden – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
- Bringing back the original jersey tomato – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
- Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing demonstration
- Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay demonstration
- Trash decomposition and the environment
- The ins and outs of recycling
- How to compost
- Native plants exhibit
- Solid waste and wastewater management
- Electric vehicle charging location maps
