Family Events

A hands-on forest-science morning at the Wilderness Station built for homeschool families, covering how a woodland actually recycles itself - leaf litter, fungi, rot and all the small creatures doing …

An hour at Cannonsburgh Village aimed squarely at the two-to-four crowd, letting them handle child-scale tools and build something. Toddler programming that is genuinely built for toddlers is rarer than it should be around here, and an hour is exactly the right length before attention runs out. $5 per child.

The second morning of the Wilderness Station's forest-science session for homeschool families, same format as the day before - decomposition, fungi and the forest floor, taught outdoors rather than from a worksheet. Two age bands, roughly 5 to 8 and 9 to 12. $5 per child, registration required.

A history-through-objects hour at Cannonsburgh Village: the kitchen tools households relied on before electricity, and what it actually took to get a meal on the table. Kids get to work …

A two-hour introduction to archery at the Wilderness Station with equipment provided, so there is nothing to buy before you find out whether it clicks. Instructors start from stance and …

Geology for children who have logged serious hours mining blocks on a screen - the Wilderness Station takes the ores and stones they already recognise from the game and puts the real versions in their hands. It is a smart hook, and it works on kids who would otherwise say rocks are boring. $5 per …