Join Willow Bend and special guests, the Jones Benally Family, for a hands on interactive event celebrating winter! Traditional Diné winter stories and games, snow experiments and displays, winter art, and more! Hot chocolate and a warm fire place will be provided. Event Schedule: 9-11:30am: Wildlife winter adaptation display, hands on wildlife tracks in snow […]
Join Willow Bend, Prometheus Solar, and Arizona Wind for Schools for a Science Saturday that is all about renewable energy! Hands on activities, wind and solar experts, and an art exhibition. Design and build your own wind turbine, play with solar powered devices, create "sun" art, generate your own energy with our "power" bike, enjoy […]
Join Willow Bend, Coconino County Parks and Recreation and other partners for a celebration of spring! Hands on activities, planting demonstrations, worm composting, pollinator games, make your own corn tortillas, seed art, and information about upcoming spring and summer outdoor events from Coconino County Parks and Recreation. Plus outdoor Gardening 101 Workshop at 11am with Master […]
Join Willow Bend and Friends of the Rio de Flag for an event that’s all about the Rio! Event starts at 9am with a 2 mile guided tour of the Rio from Willow Bend to the Wetlands and back. Then, from 10am-1pm hands on activities at Willow Bend including creating your own watershed, water quality […]
Join Willow Bend, Northern Arizona Audubon Society, Rocky Mountain Research Station, AZ Watchable Wildlife Experience, Junior Duck Stamp, and other partners for a Science Saturday event that's all about birds! The event will begin earlier than usual with a a bird watching hike. We will meet at Willow Bend at 8am and hike to the […]
Join Willow Bend and NAU Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research for a creepy crawly Science Saturday. We will have hundreds of arthropod samples on display, including butterflies and native bees plus fun activities, build own super bug, view insects under a microscope, play the pollinator game, make insect hotels, and learn about native plants […]
Join Willow Bend for a Science Saturday that really rocks! Learn about the region's unique rock formations, have fun making your own fossils, paint rocks, dig through our rock collection, and try balance stones with our special guest artist and stone balancer extraordinaire Pieter Schaafsma. Fun hands on activities for all ages.
Held in conjunction with Colorado Rover Days, Water Shadows is an exhibition featuring Grand Canyon/Colorado River photographic images by Debbie Leavitt. Water flows, shapes, erodes, leaves its mark, finds a way through... Reception will be held during September Science Saturday event and will be up till September 12th. The event is FREE and open to […]
In conjunction with Colorado River Days this annual Science Saturday event is not to be missed! LIVE fish, hands on activities, selfies on a river boat, water shadows: photographic images by Debbie Leavitt, and more!
Come celebrate the amazing world of bats. October is Bat month and we have so many hands on activities and displays celebrating these unique winged mammals. Halloween bat decorations, bat games, AZ bat displays, bat research information, test your bat knowledge, hands on activities and free bat posters. Event held in partnership with AZ Game […]
