GET OUT AND GROW! FREE Fall Festival for Families

Our 8th Annual Fall Festival: Get Out and Grow! celebrates the great outdoors and your family's place in it! The event will feature up-close encounters with animals and nature as well as interactive art, music and energy-boosting activities that promote positive growth in all areas of child development. The free outdoor festival -- held on our 2.5 acres of DNR-designated wetlands and School Forest -- is for participants of all ages and abilities and is open to the whole community. 

• Move and groove with Kidsdance
• Search for wildlife on horse-drawn wagon rides through the School Forest with Cedar River Horse Logging
• Experience up-close encounters with furry creatures and creepy-crawly lizards at the Minnesota Zoo Zoomobile (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
• Create clay slab fish sculptures with Kidcreate Studio™
• Learn to identify common freshwater fish and practice casting with Jasper Guide Services and Fish Camp
• Taste-test apples, observe plant parts, spin the prize wheel and meet Woodstock, the fuzzy chicken, (11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
• Putt Putt for Clean Water with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
• Scale the giant climbing wall with Three Rivers Park District
• Create nature crafts using natural outdoor materials with Minnetonka Center for the Arts
• Imitate your favorite nature-dweller with wild and woodsy face painting by Rainbow Party Arts
• And much more!

Walk, run, roll or stroll with friends and family during the Mosaic Wetland Trailway Treasure Hunt through our School Forest and Minnetonka Trail System from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.! Children and adults of all abilities can explore what nature has to offer while staying active.