Come celebrate what makes the watershed special with Bayou City Waterkeeper! Hike Armand Bayou Nature Center’s forested paths, wetlands, and prairie and be a part of urban conservation as you walk to support your backyard bayous.

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Interactive Nature 5k (Registration required)

12 – 2 p.m. Free Public Event with live music, wildlife exhibitions, and non-profit booths

All proceeds benefit Bayou City Waterkeeper’s conservation, advocacy, and education programs. This event is part of the Waterkeeper Alliance SPLASH Series, presented nationally by Toyota USA.

To register or for more information, visit bayoucitywaterkeeper.salsalabs.org.

Butterfly Bonanza is a free, fun, family-friendly, interactive event to learn more about butterflies, bees, and other pollinators, and how we can all help to create habitats to help them. Join the Gulf Coast Monarch Project for crafts, games, demonstrations, seedballs, tours, and more. Wear a butterfly costume to enter a drawing for a prize.

Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies, experiments, projects. It the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth – a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. Glimpse the future and get inspired! For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit houston.makerfaire.com.

Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies, experiments, projects. It the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth – a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. Glimpse the future and get inspired! For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit houston.makerfaire.com.

Grab your costumes and get the kids together for the Arboretum’s biggest family event of the year. ArBOOretum features fun Fall activities for all ages including live animals, pumpkin decorating, and Houston’s only Trick-or-Treat Nature Trail. Enjoy these fall classics and much more. This event is rain or shine. No pets, please.

Free admission for members and discounted tickets for online pre-orders until Oct. 18.

To become a sponsor, or for more event details, visit houstonarboretum.org.

On October 20, 2018, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., take your family or students to Houston’s largest annual free, public family festival at Sam Houston Park. Hosted by the Consumer Energy Education Foundation, Energy Day showcases science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) with nearly 70 interactive demonstrations and exhibits.

The Energy Day Festival was founded in Houston, Texas in 2011 to provide outreach and educational support materials, events, activities, resources, and information about career opportunities in STEM and the various energy fields – stressing the importance of energy, conservation, and efficiency to schools, students, and their families.

For more information, visit energydayfestival.org.

The Nature Discovery Center’s Pumpkin Patch fall festival returns to Russ Pitman Park this fall. Come to enjoy their refreshed, updated park, where your family can pick out the perfect pumpkins for your porch; take a horse-drawn wagon ride; browse vendor stalls; bounce, spin, and climb big attractions; and play plenty of festival games. Don’t forget to also stop by the food trucks for some scrumptious eats.

Admission to Pumpkin Patch is FREE. Cost of games, activities, food, drinks, and more will vary.

Interested in sponsoring this event? You may find the sponsorship package at naturediscoverycenter.org.

The Nature Discovery Center’s Pumpkin Patch fall festival returns to Russ Pitman Park this fall. Come to enjoy their refreshed, updated park, where your family can pick out the perfect pumpkins for your porch; take a horse-drawn wagon ride; browse vendor stalls; bounce, spin, and climb big attractions; and play plenty of festival games. Don’t forget to also stop by the food trucks for some scrumptious eats.

Admission to Pumpkin Patch is FREE. Cost of games, activities, food, drinks, and more will vary.

Interested in sponsoring this event? You may find the sponsorship package at naturediscoverycenter.org.

Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to the 2018 Creation Care Fest – Environmental Extravaganza. This free event has fun and educational environmental activities for all ages such as pumpkin decorating and lectures by experts on major environmental issues. Exhibits by local environmental nonprofits will offer more opportunities to learn and engage.

Parking is available for $1 at the Rice University lot across the street from the church. Metro bus stops for lines 27 & 41 are nearby. Bike parking is available in the church lot.

For more information, visit eventbrite.com.

Join Greens Bayou for a memorial tree planting followed by a family-friendly festival. More details about the event to follow. Visit greensbayou.org for updates.