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

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FDR Community Workday

March 25th at 9:00am
1500 Pattison Avenue &, S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19145

Join the Fairmount Park Conservancy team for a volunteer workday around the Pattison Lagoon on Wednesday, March 25th, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Since fall 2023, the Conservancy has been working to clear invasives and plant new native trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses along the edges of Pattison Lagoon with the help of volunteer groups, including the Phillies. Join us in caring for and establishing these plantings to support local wildlife and make a lasting impact on the lagoon's ecosystem. Let's continue this important work together! This public volunteer event is open to all ages and people of all abilities. Anyone interested is welcome to participate. Please use the Anna C . Verna Playground parking lot. Volunteers will be able to select their project, including: * Tree care, weeding & mulching * Trash cleanup as needed

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Lemon Hill

Mayor’s Spring Cleanup with Fairmount Park Conservancy

April 11th at 9:00am
1 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Join Fairmount Park Conservancy for a volunteer workday in East Fairmount Park on Saturday, April 11th, from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. This event is open to volunteers of all abilities. All tools and materials — including gloves — will be provided. Volunteer projects include: Removing invasive species (primary project) Trash pick-up 📍 MEET-UP LOCATION Let's meet across the street from the Lloyd Hall Recreation Center Look out for our green tent once you arrive at the location.

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Second Saturday at Fairmount Park

April 11th at 10:00am
West Fairmount Park

Help preserve the forests of Fairmount Park! Join us to help plant native trees and shrubs to restore Belmont woods! We will also cut invasive vine and pick up litter (if time allows)

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