2nd Annual Wild World Celebration
Venue: Price House Nature Center, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements, Charity
Cost: Free

Description:
The Price House Nature Centers hosts their second annual Wild World Celebration on Saturday, April 27th. Celebrating Earth Day, Arbor Day and Frogs Day.

Events include:
- Several exciting exhibits featuring featuring live animals, frog facts and other wonders of the natural world
- Games – see the world as if you were a drop of water, migrate like a monarch butterfly and more!
- Hands-on activities, including finding out what happens when an underground storage tank leaks into your water supply – yuck!
- Arts and crafts using recycled and natural objects.
- Fun ways to learn about composting and how critters eat your food scraps and turn it into fabulous soil.
- A tree planting in honor of Arbor Day
- And we’ll have a silent auction fundraiser featuring passes to local and regional attractions, Fair Trade products and nature-related items

Come make new friends who love nature just as much as you do!

Organizations on hand include:
Alwood Society - Entomology Department at VT with live insects
Alpha Epsilon Honor Society
Biological Sciences at VT
Chi Delta Alpha Service Sorority
Composting exhibit
Geosciences Outreach at VT – The water cycle and our drinking water
Scales, Tails and Claws – Live animal displays
Sigma Alpha Agricultural Sorority
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center
Tonya Lee, Wildlife Rehabilitator
Virginia Master Naturalists
VT Wildlife Society
Virginia Master Naturalists
VT Natural Resources Recreation Association
and others...

Limited parking is available in the Nature Center Driveway, on Wharton Street, and within two short blocks on Clay Street at spout spring parking strip and along Church Street in the public parking lot.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

For more information, visit: http://www.facebook.com/blacksburgnaturecenter or http://www.seedskids.org/ or call: 540-552-3914.

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