This month the MRCN AmeriCorps crew has been hard at work with rain gardens, rain gardens and more rain gardens! Every now and then, however, we do like to take a break and get messy with something other than mud. On October 17th, that something was paint! The Sustainable Living Fair was held at Columbia College from 10am-6pm, and MRCN was the designated provider of children’s activities.
We set up two fun (and secretly educational) activities at our outdoor booth. One- which actually attracted more adults than kids- is lovingly referred to as Macro Match. By overturning the rocks in our “streams,” kiddos can find “macros” and determine which stream is healthy and which stream is polluted. We didn’t have too much interest, mostly because of our second activity…
Kids and grown-ups alike could not resist helping us decorate our beautiful, demonstration rain barrel! We invited fair-goers to stick their hands in paint and place their handprint on our barrel. The end result was a colorful example of how individuals can personalize this great water-holding device.
As the weather gets chillier, we are starting to put away our fair and festival demonstrations for a winter break. But don’t be surprised if you see Macro Match and a colorful barrel when we start to festival hop again in the spring!
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