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Nature Fridays: Food Scraps Day

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Join us to celebrate International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste! This week you can learn about various actions to reduce food loss and waste. Kids will get creative and transform food scraps into sustainable crafts! Hang onto your citrus peels and make beautiful, aromatic, compostable garlands! Become a food waste warrior and play our food waste-themed bingo game.

Theme: International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Here's what we've going on this week:

ALL DAY

Explore: Open to the public to explore

Craft: Food waste colouring pages

10 AM

Craft: Food scraps craft  | orange peel garland  

1 PM

Video: Become a Food Waste Warrior | What is Food Waste Presentation 

2:30 PM

Activity: No Food Waste Bingo & Food is Not Trash Sorting Game

Please note: parents must stay with their children while they are in the education centre.

Hours: the Environmental Education Centre is open Monday to Friday to the public from 8 AM to 4 PM. Fridays a staff member will be on hand running activities, and will be available to chat with the public and answer questions.

    Stop in to learn about:

    Wondering what other kinds of handy things you might learn? While our programming is geared toward younger nature nuts, our Conservation Educator also has plenty of information that can be useful to adults!

    Find out what's happening every week!

    Visit the Green Living Events page to see our weekly schedule of planned activities for Nature Fridays at the Environmental Education Centre!

    Event type
    Community, Sustainablility, Town of Okotoks
    Contact
    Okotoks Conservation Educator
    Last Updated: September 27, 2023