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Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join us for a walk at Raven Glen as we enjoy and the sights and sounds of winter.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Learn about the adaptations of our resident owl species and then head out on the trail to listen and look for "who's" awake in the woods at night.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Build a bridge to nature with your young ones. Experience how multisensory nature connections help young children develop healthy and happy brains and bodies. Time spent in nature is critical to children's social-emotional, and physical development. Child-centered, exploratory, imaginative play fosters creativity, emotional well-being, independent learning, and problem-solving.

Aprenda sobre las adaptaciones de nuestras diferente especies de búhos en el condado de Lake. En nuestra caminata vamos a llamar a los búhos que está despiertos en el bosque por la noche. Este programa es completamente en español. **This program is completely in Spanish**

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Únase a un educador ambiental y explore la reserva forestal Half Day. Caminata es en Español y Ingles.
Join an environmental educator and explore Half Day Forest Preserve. Walk is in Spanish & English.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Take a Bob Ross® style painting class with a designated Certified Ross® Instructor. Classes are specially suited for beginners; you need no previous experience to attend. You'll paint a beautiful Bob Ross® Wet-on-Wet Technique scene and at the end of your class you'll go home with a frame-ready painting that you never dreamed possible.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Hear infamous true crime stories of Lake County ranging from Rondout Train Robbery to the Fox Lake Massacre. This presentation will examine the historical evidence to focus on the who's, what's, and where's of fascinating historic crimes

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Learn about the natural history and special adaptations of coyotes and other canines in Lake County through a presentation and natural artifacts.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join a naturalist and take a nice leisurely stroll through this beautiful preserve. Learn about the history of this site and take a close look at some of the interesting plants and animals that we come upon.

Families will learn about local birds that visit during the winter through a craft and hands-on activities, including our Project Feeder Watch station.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Experience this unique opportunity to join a guided exploration of your preserves at night. If we're lucky, it will be a clear night and the full moon will light the way.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join a history educator on a guided tour of the temporary exhibition, Art for Everyone: Bob Ross® and take a closer look at famous Bob Ross® paintings and his signature technique.

Move your kids outdoors for unstructured seasonal play, proven healthful and beneficial. Celebrate seasonal fun outdoors. Build mini habitats for toy animals and use natural materials and your imagination for creation. Try snow painting or other seasonal activities. Nature provides infinite possibilities to express creativity. See how nature ignites a spark in everyone.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

The Dunn Museum collections include works from some of Lake County’s notable visual artists. This program will give you a glimpse into the Dunn Museum’s collections to reveal one of the rich layers composing Lake County history. Join us to learn about a few of the Lake County artists who were active in the first half of the 20th century. Whether an artist called Lake County home for a season or for almost their entire lives, both they and their art become an integral part of Lake County.

We will read a story and then venture outside to explore Ryerson woods under the night sky.

Greet the solstice with a winter bird walk as the sun rises along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Following a short presentation on the negative impact European buckthorn has in our preserves, we will learn how to use the proper tools and herbicide application to effectively remove this non-native invasive species from your property.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Celebrate the coming of the light this winter solstice. We will take night hikes, drink cocoa by the fire in the heated pavilion, and learn how animals adapt to winter.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join an Environmental Educator and take a leisurely stroll through one of our preserves. This is a great opportunity to get some exercise and learn about nature. Join us and take a closer look at plants, birds and other wildlife.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

The Dunn Museum will be open to those who need a calm and quiet visit before it is open to the public. A quiet room for stimulation breaks will be accessible. Creative crafts and manipulatives will be provided in our café space.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Drop in to the Dunn Museum’s North Shore Gas Classroom to discover the winter survival strategies of local animals through hands-on discovery and a craft.

Back by popular demand! Join us to bind your own book and to learn about the practice of bookbinding over time. Participants will have the opportunity to explore unique bound diaries and journals in the museum’s collection. At the end of the program, you will have made your own bound book to take home. Materials included.