May 10th, 2020

Family Day May 10: Love Your Park at Home Schedule

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Sunday, May 10th is Family Day during Love Your Park @ Home! Here are all of the fun activities you can learn, share, and do with the whole family.

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LEARN: How to be a Climate Hero (Video) 

Motivated by environmental education for kids, Climate Heroes engages children about our beloved natural world! Inspired by the family-friendly Cimate Heroes curriculum, we hope to teach our youth to value the importance of the health of our shared planet through fun learning – we are bringing this introduction to you and your children at home so they can make their way towards becoming nature's very own Climate Heroes! Watch the video below, then click here to learn even more!

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SHARE: Mother's Day activities for the whole family

Share the power of play this LYP season, with your family or on your own! With this wonderfully engaging Studio Ludo playpack, let's keep our awesome kids playing while social-distancing. In honor of Love Your Park @ Home, Studio Ludo developed these Mother's Day activity sheets for kids and families to enjoy and celebrate moms (the best play-mates of all time)! Share the love with others by donating a play pack to a Philly family in need. #SpreadTheJoyNotTheVirus

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DO: A mini-yoga class with Fairmount Park Conservancy

Fairmount Park Conservancy will welcome everyone to Love Your Park @ Home and offer a short hike to a special treehouse in the park for an inspiring, beginner friendly mini yoga class led by Lauren Daddis.

Watch live at 3pm

Don't miss these upcoming Love Your Park @ Home events

N Georges Hill & Wynnefield Ave. West Fairmount Park

Open Community Workday at West Fairmount Park

February 22nd at 10:00am
Wynnefield Ave & N Georges Hill Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19131

Join Fairmount Park Conservancy for an Open Volunteer Workday along Wynnefield Avenue & N Georges Hill Drive in West Fairmount Park. This volunteer event is open to all ages and abilities. All tools and materials for the workday will be provided, including gloves. Together, we will work on: Removing invasive species, trail maintenance, trash pick-up and cleaning/recovering the sidewalk path.

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Lemon Hill Fountain Garden Restoration Project

March 8th at 10:00am
2972 Sedgley Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Lemon Hill Neighbors has embarked on a restoration of the garden and landscape around the fountain entry way along Sedgley Drive to bring it to a natural pollinator garden. Tasks will include- tagging plants, removing plants, planting seeds and starters, distributing leaf litter, trash cleanup and composting.

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Lemon Hill Fountain Garden Restoration Project 2

March 15th at 10:00am
2972 Sedgley Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Lemon Hill Neighbors has embarked on a restoration of the garden and landscape around the fountain entry way along Sedgley Drive to bring it to a natural pollinator garden. Tasks will include- tagging plants, removing plants, planting seeds and starters, distributing leaf litter, trash cleanup and composting.

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