Activity List / Drop-In

“Fins, Feathers, and Family Fun”

Thursday Sept. 16 and Friday Sept. 17 (School Days)

This is a list of drop-in activities that require no sign-up. We encourage you to visit these activities throughout the day as your schedule allows. Many of the activities are located in the exhibit area.

Discovery Garden

Students from the Cascade Discovery Program (an alternative high school located on fish hatchery grounds) demonstrate horticultural practices in their beautiful garden.

Exhibits

Many agencies and organizations in our community share information through hands-on, interactive activities. The U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Audubon Society (just to name a few) will be joining us for this salmon celebration.

Fish Aquarium

Gaze through the waters and become eye to eye with our local freshwater fish. Learn more about why fish look the way they do and how to identify them.

Inspirations from Nature

This exhibit, featuring six artists, will focus on their connection with nature and their creative processes. This is an interactive exhibit that will offer visitors the chance to explore their own creativity with different media, and to meet and talk with artists. Children will have the opportunity to make their own art to take home.

Rolling Rivers

Students and parents alike learn-through-playing in a giant sandbox! This hands-on interactive watershed modeling activity is a unique learning experience, in which participants learn the fundamental elements of a healthy and properly functioning watershed and then use that knowledge to create ideal Salmon habitat. Presented by Barn Beach Reserve and Cascadia Conservation District.

Salmon Maze

In this 40 by 40 foot barrier-free maze, students will experience the many challenges of aquatic life and migration when they discover themselves as salmon, hatching and struggling to survive. They meet predators along the way as they go through the salmon’s amazing life cycle. An activity sheet is given to each student to complete.

Salmon Tagging Trailer

How do we keep track of salmon? How do we know who’s who? Experience the latest in automated fish tagging technology and learn how hatchery salmon are tagged before they are released into Icicle Creek. Visit this Columbia River Fisheries Program Office one-of-a-kind piece of equipment.

Song with Jim Valley

Jim Valley will join us in the grassy lunch area at 11:30 AM for singing, stories and fun. Be sure to join him as a sign-up activity for more singing, movement and stories. Visit the Rainbow Planet website for more information!