Wings & Wild Things Festival
JOHNSON COUNTY EDUCATION PROGRAMS, Johnson County
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Celebrate Iowa’s natural world with this new hands-on festival showcasing the wild and wonderful flora and fauna of our region, as well as outdoor recreation activities in our area. Grab food from local food trucks and enjoy a day spent exploring Johnson County’s Kent Park.
The event will feature hands-on learning activities, guided
exploration, and animal meet & greets. Meet a live owl, study Iowa’s threatened
box turtles, get your hands dirty making milkweed seed balls, pick up native
plants for your yard, and more. Visitors can also enjoy guided bird walks,
mushroom forays, and fishing activities.
Local food vendors will be on site throughout the day!
Activities will include:
- Live
raptor meet & greets
- Native
plant sale
- Guided
bird walks
- Mushroom
forays and specimen study
- Plein
Air Painting
- Fishing
- Dip
Netting for aquatic critters
- Hawk
watch
- Atlatl throwing
- Reptile
demonstrations & habitat walks
- Pollinator
education
- Nature
Trivia
- Hands-on
milkweed seed ball making
- Featured
education speakers
- DIY
bird decal-making station
- Animal
Biofacts education stations
- Bird
nest education & native seed ball giveaway
- Mysteries
of migration activity stations
- Prairie display activities
- &
more
Event Partners:
The Wings
& Wild Things Festival is made possible through partnership with numerous local conservation-minded organizations. Partner groups include Iowa City Bird Club,
Raptology, Prairie States Mushroom Club, Indian Creek Nature Center, Johnson
County Master Gardeners of Iowa, Troutleaf Native Plants, Arts Iowa City’s
ArtiFactory, Pollinator Partnership, Iowa Master Naturalists, Extant Relatives,
Backyard Abundance, Taproot Nature Experience, Trees Forever, UI Wild, The Xerces Society, Bur Oak Land Trust, and others.
Food:
Be sure to bring
an appetite! Local food vendors Griddle Me This and Luna's Tacos of Iowa City
will be on site cooking up delicious food to enjoy throughout this event.
