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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 1 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
 Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
1:00 pm
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
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Naturalist Explorers (ages 5-8): Defenders of Planet Earth
9:00 am
Naturalist Explorers (ages 5-8): Defenders of Planet Earth
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 2 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
 Naturalist Explorers introduces children ages 5 to 8 to environmental and natural history topics in a fun and enthusiastic atmosphere. Classes include a short introduction inside followed by handsâ€on, engaging activities outside. Parents are welcome to participate with their child, or drop them off. This spring, come and learn how to be a Planet Defender! Discover how to make wise...
Tadpole Troopers (ages 3-5): Animals of the Night
9:00 am
Tadpole Troopers (ages 3-5): Animals of the Night
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 2 @ 9:00 am – 10:15 am
 As the sun sets a whole new world comes to life. Explore the nighttime world as parents and children learn all about nocturnal animals. Journey down armadillo tunnels, learn how to echo-locate, and meet two of the most amazing Houston mammals as the group ventures into the night and see who’s awake out there. Tadpole Troopers is a nature class and outdoor...
Urban Harvest’s Designing Our Green Homes & Communities Through Permaculture series
9:30 am
Urban Harvest’s Designing Our Green Homes & Communities Through Permaculture series
@ University of Houston Central Campus, Charles F. McElhinney Hall
Feb 2 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
 A series of 7 classes First class: Feb. 2, 2019, 9:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Nurture Nature series: Wilderness Survival
10:00 am
Nurture Nature series: Wilderness Survival
@ Baytown Nature Center
Feb 2 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
 Ever wonder how to survive in the wilderness or curious about some cool tips for camping? Join Baytown Nature Center Naturalist, Crissy Butcher, demonstrate the five basic skills: fire, shelter, signaling, food/water and first aid. Hiking safety will also be covered for those interested in short day trips, as well as extended trekking. This two-hour program is for outdoor enthusiasts...
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Tyke Hike (18 months – 3 years)
9:30 am
Tyke Hike (18 months – 3 years)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 4 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
 Encourage your child’s curiosity about nature and spend time with them exploring outdoors! Children 18 months to 3 years, with their adult companions, can join a naturalist for a story reading, a simple nature activity or craft, and a stroller-friendly hike on the beautiful Arboretum trails. Enjoy an interesting new nature experience each week with themes such as turtles, armadillos, spiders,...
Arboretum’s Home School Program (ages 5-12)
1:00 pm
Arboretum’s Home School Program (ages 5-12)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A different three-week science unit is taught each month, with classes consisting of instructional time, hands-on activities, and outdoor activities. Extension ideas will be provided to parents so they can follow up with lessons and activities at home. Visit houstonarboretum.org for the class schedule.
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Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
 Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
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Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
10:00 am
Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Science Sprouts is an exciting series for curious kids that love nature and science. Classes will include a short lesson on the topic of the day followed by a nature walk on the trails of the Arboretum. Each class will have a fun mixture of games, live animals, biofacts, crafts, story time, or music. Parents are welcome to participate with...
Green Leadership Trust Networking Reception
6:00 pm
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Parks and Natural Areas Summit and Awards Ceremony
9:00 am
Parks and Natural Areas Summit and Awards Ceremony
@ Houston-Galveston Area Council, Conference Room B, Second Floor
Feb 8 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
 The Summit will include presentations about various H-GAC programs that can provide goods, services, technical assistance, and funding for parks and natural areas projects. These projects serve as models for planning and project implementation for parks and natural areas in the region. Projects will be honored in three categories. The event will also include the annual Parks and Natural Areas Awards recognition...
Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
1:00 pm
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 8 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
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Wildlife Rescue Basics
8:30 am
Wildlife Rescue Basics
@ Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, Cecilia Riley Avian Conservation Science Center
Feb 9 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
 Topics Include: Learn how you can volunteer and help the wildlife rehabilitation effort in the Brazoria/ Matagorda County areas. What to do if you find an injured or orphaned wild animal. (First aid, safety, handling techniques for birding and mammals) Overview of wildlife rehabilitation… including the role of rehabilitators and volunteers, how to become a wildlife rehabilitator, and state and...
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Blackwood Farm School
9:00 am
Blackwood Farm School
@ Blackwood Educational Land Institute
Feb 11 @ 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
 Blackwood Farm School is an excellent complement to all pedagogy. Their goal is to teach students a strong work ethic as they learn where food comes from, and connect classroom studies to real world situations. Students will leave empowered to utilize their new skills to continue modeling the indispensable role of restorative, resilient food systems in daily life. This once-monthly,...
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Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 12 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
Organic Gardening Hacks by Shawna Coronado
2:00 pm
Organic Gardening Hacks by Shawna Coronado
@ Buchanan's Native Plants
Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm
 Learn eco-friendly solutions to improve any garden and top tips, tricks, and solutions unearthed by Shawna Coronado. In this discussion, she will help you discover clever ways to upcycle everyday items in your garden in order to save your pennies and save the environment. Each hack is natural or organic and super-easy to accomplish in the garden and will give...
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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
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Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
10:00 am
Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Science Sprouts is an exciting series for curious kids that love nature and science. Classes will include a short lesson on the topic of the day followed by a nature walk on the trails of the Arboretum. Each class will have a fun mixture of games, live animals, biofacts, crafts, story time, or music. Parents are welcome to participate with...
Craft Asylum – Second Thursdays
6:00 pm
Craft Asylum – Second Thursdays
@ Texas Art Asylum
Feb 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
 Leave your troubles at the door, and join us for a chill craft event, second Thursdays from 6-8pm. Bring what you’re making, and hang out with us while we’re making what we’re making. Knit, crochet, embroider, slow stitch, paint, draw, collage, quill, whittle — whatever. BYOB — light snacks provided. Must be over 18.
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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
1:00 pm
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
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Tyke Hike (18 months – 3 years)
9:30 am
Tyke Hike (18 months – 3 years)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 18 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Encourage your child’s curiosity about nature and spend time with them exploring outdoors! Children 18 months to 3 years, with their adult companions, can join a naturalist for a story reading, a simple nature activity or craft, and a stroller-friendly hike on the beautiful Arboretum trails. Enjoy an interesting new nature experience each week with themes such as turtles, armadillos, spiders,...
Arboretum’s Home School Program (ages 5-12)
1:00 pm
Arboretum’s Home School Program (ages 5-12)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A different three-week science unit is taught each month, with classes consisting of instructional time, hands-on activities, and outdoor activities. Extension ideas will be provided to parents so they can follow up with lessons and activities at home. Visit houstonarboretum.org for the class schedule.
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Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
Houston GREEN Film Series – Divide in Concord
6:30 pm
Houston GREEN Film Series – Divide in Concord
@ Rice Media Center
Feb 20 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
 Jean Hill, a fiery octogenarian, is deeply concerned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the world’s largest landfill. Since 2010, she has spearheaded a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. She spends her golden years attending city council meetings and cold calling residents. So far, her attempts to pass...
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Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
10:00 am
Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Science Sprouts is an exciting series for curious kids that love nature and science. Classes will include a short lesson on the topic of the day followed by a nature walk on the trails of the Arboretum. Each class will have a fun mixture of games, live animals, biofacts, crafts, story time, or music. Parents are welcome to participate with...
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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
1:00 pm
Houston Audubon’s BIRD Buddies
@ Houston Audubon's Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center
Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Introducing BIRD Buddies — The most fun for your 3 to 5-year-old on a Friday. Your children will discover a new bird and the other animals that live in its habitat every week. Natural history education, crafts, games, song and dance and more await your children on this fun journey through the bird world. This program will run from September...
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Urban Harvest’s Basic Fruit Tree Care & Planting
9:30 am
Urban Harvest’s Basic Fruit Tree Care & Planting
@ Houston Museum of Natural Science, Moran Conference Room
Feb 23 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Saturdays in Nature program
1:00 pm
Saturdays in Nature program
@ Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary
Feb 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
On the fourth Saturday of each month (September-May), Houston Audubon Docents lead a hands-on science program for families to participate in together. From building bird feeders to identifying backyard bugs, naturalists of all ages enjoy quality time outdoors, creative art projects, guided nature walks, and hands-on fun.
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Tyke Hike (18 months – 3 years)
9:30 am
Tyke Hike (18 months – 3 years)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 25 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Encourage your child’s curiosity about nature and spend time with them exploring outdoors! Children 18 months to 3 years, with their adult companions, can join a naturalist for a story reading, a simple nature activity or craft, and a stroller-friendly hike on the beautiful Arboretum trails. Enjoy an interesting new nature experience each week with themes such as turtles, armadillos, spiders,...
Arboretum’s Home School Program (ages 5-12)
1:00 pm
Arboretum’s Home School Program (ages 5-12)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A different three-week science unit is taught each month, with classes consisting of instructional time, hands-on activities, and outdoor activities. Extension ideas will be provided to parents so they can follow up with lessons and activities at home. Visit houstonarboretum.org for the class schedule.
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Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 26 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
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Children’s Nature Classes
9:30 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
10:00 am
Houston Audubon’s Titmouse Club
@ Houston Audubon Society
Feb 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Through stories, hands-on activities, nature walks, and crafts, your children will be inspired with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the natural world around them. Each week’s Titmouse Club lesson features a different nature theme, focusing on Houston-area animals and habitats. Your children will enjoy nature stories and puppets, hands-on biofacts, nature crafts, up-close animal encounters, and a short walk in...
Urban Harvest’s In The Garden – Spring Vegetable Planting
6:00 pm
Urban Harvest’s In The Garden – Spring Vegetable Planting
@ McGovern Centennial Family Gardens
Feb 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
10:00 am
Science Sprouts (ages 4-5)
@ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Feb 28 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Science Sprouts is an exciting series for curious kids that love nature and science. Classes will include a short lesson on the topic of the day followed by a nature walk on the trails of the Arboretum. Each class will have a fun mixture of games, live animals, biofacts, crafts, story time, or music. Parents are welcome to participate with...
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