Spring Fling Festival

The Nature Discovery Center’s Spring Fling Festival includes nature and environmental activities, crafts, and exhibits for children, family nature hikes, live animals, and more. (Photo courtesy of Nature Discovery Center)

The Nature Discovery Center’s 2022 Spring Fling Festival takes place Sun., April 24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. A fun and informative, free, family-friendly event, there will be nature and environmental activities crafts and exhibits for children, family nature hikes, live animals, and more. Center staff and volunteers will set up stations focused on live animals and biofacts, native wildflowers and their pollinators in the Pocket Prairie, pond wildlife in Cypress Pond, and edible plants and gardens out back by the pavilions. Plus, there will be a kid-friendly nature art project, scheduled hourly nature walks for the whole family (from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.), and a chance to make wildflower seed balls.