Science Saturday

Join Willow Bend for our monthly Science Saturday program, on Saturday, February 3rd from 9am-1pm for a hands-on and interactive event celebrating winter! Special guest Catherine Esquivel will be sharing traditional Diné winter stories during two sessions, 10:00-10:30AM and 12:00-12:30PM. Make snow art, learn about animal winter adaptations, hands-on experiments and more.  FREE event! No need to RSVP. Science Saturday is […]

Join Willow Bend, Prometheus Solar, Arizona Wind for Schools and Flagstaff Skylights by JKC Inc for a Science Saturday that is all about renewable energy! Design and build your own wind turbine, play with solar powered devices, create "sun" art, generate your own energy with our "power" bike, explore a Solatube, enjoy delicious solar oven […]

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.

The science of color! Explore color science with natural color dyeing examples, science experiments, and more!

What can we make out of plants? Why are they so important to the environment? Find out at this Science Saturday with hands-on activities and games all about plants!

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. Design your own super bug, view insets  under a microscope, play the pollinator game, make insect hotels, learn about native plants that support pollinators, […]

Join us for a Science Saturday that really rocks! Learn about the region's unique rock formations, have fun making your own fossils, and try to balance stones with our special guest artist and stone balancer extraordinaire Pieter Schaafsma. Fun hands on activities from 9am-1pm. No need to RSVP, the event is free and open to […]

Come celebrate fish and watersheds and get your hands wet! LIVE fish, interactive watershed models, games, and fun activities! This celebration is held in conjunction with Colorado River Days Flagstaff and is a collaborative effort between Willow Bend Environmental Education Center, Friends of the Rio de Flag, The Sierra Club, Arizona Trail Association, The United States Geological […]

Come celebrate the end of the growing season with the Friends of the Willow Bend Garden volunteer group. Fun and delicious hands on activities, cooking demos, seed art, a guided walk through the heirloom and the medicinal plant garden 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 […]