2025 Special Programming and Educational Activities
Special Programming
Climate Action
Education Tent
In the Big Field near the
Energy & Green Building
Neighborhood
Have you ever wondered what’s really driving the Climate Crisis? Do you feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start? The Climate Action Education Tent will have all of this information and more with docents to guide you. Engage with our theme of Climate Hope: The Change We Want by exploring the Climate Hope Walk and interactive art. Take a Climate Pledge, engage with experts, earn your badge, and take a photo at our selfie station!
Perennial's Repair Demo
in the middle of the
Sustainable Marketplace
Join the creative crew at Perennial’s Repair Circle for hands-on repair demonstrations and activities all weekend long! Try your hand at simple fixes from mending clothing and DIY reupholstery to drywall and wooden furniture repairs. Throughout the weekend, the Perennial team will be sharing easy ways to bring items back to life, and to avoid tossing repairable items in the landfill. Find Perennial’s Repair Demo in the center of the Sustainable Marketplace + come give it a try!
***Please leave your DIY projects at home. Perennial does not have capacity onsite to repair your items.
Silent Auction
online April 22-29
Support earthday365’s year-round work by bidding on an item from our silent auction! We have over 50 items from Festival vendors and St. Louis-based organizations such as a $500 Better Life Home Cleaning gift card, Home Wine Sampling Evening for 8 from PRP Wine International, St. Louis City SC basket, three months of home food scraps pick up from New Earth Farm, and so much more!
100% of profits support earthday365’s programs that address environmental injustice, champion plastic waste reduction, tackle food waste diversion, encourage sustainable dining practices, and promote climate action in the St. Louis region and help to keep the Festival free.
Use the QR code to view the auction. Bid early and often!
Climate Hope Walk
Big Field near the
Climate Education Tent
Explore the Climate Hope Walk for an interactive way to listen, observe, 
relax, and learn about climate solutions. Look for the signs that are posted around the Climate Action Education Tent. Use your phone to scan the QR codes on each sign.
Balance Bike Course
Booth T-1
Stop by St. Louis BWorks’ balance-bike course for young children, where they can take turns gaining confidence on two wheels even before they worry about those pesky pedals.
Free Rock Climbing
near the Transportation Neighborhood
Try your climbing skills at the Upper Limits 24′ rock climbing wall. Beginners and pros alike are welcome to take the challenge to reach the top.
Free Yoga
Community Stage
Join The Collective STL for complimentary yoga at the Community Stage each day at 1:30. Classes are appropriate for all levels including beginners.
Car Show
T-5
Check out the latest fuel-efficient vehicles. There will be several different electric vehicles on display including manufactured and conversion vehicles. Owners, who have driven thousands of miles, will be present to talk about their driving experience and to answer questions.
Aerial Performances
Central Circle across from Muny Box Office (marked on the map)
Sun Woman Cirque Art & Specialty Entertainment will be demonstrating their skills each day from 1-5 pm. Performance and education in circus arts promotes a humble and goal getting lifestyle. Come practice your hula hoop, poi, and juggling skills.
Peace Garden
north side of Theatre Dr.
marked on map
The Peace Garden is a peaceful place to come to for quiet peaceful activities to incorporate into our daily lives or to just relax and breathe. Newly located off of Theater Dr. across from the food cafe and food trucks.
Saturday, April 26th
11:00 – Paneurhythmy: Movements and Music–Healing Hope for Nature
12:00 – Earth Body Somatics: Body Care for Earth Connection & Climate Hope
1:00 – Urban Forest Therapy: Forest Bathing for Connection & Climate Hope (Sign the Waiver to Register in Advance. Limited Space)
2:00 – Wellness Beyond the Chair: Sound Waves of Serenity
3:00 – Urban Forest Therapy: Forest Bathing for Grounding & Renewal
(Sign the Waiver to Register in Advance. Limited Space.)
Sunday, April 27th
11:00 – Jabula: Grounding Intentions for Healing and Peace
12:00 – Self-Care With Eileen: Climate Hope Guided Meditation & Sound Bath
1:00 – Somatics + Solidarity: EcoDharma: Hope As Active Compassion
2:00 – Steph Plant Song Circle: Healing is Possible
Educational Activities
Environmental education and hands-on learning are key components of the Festival.
Many of the hands-on environmental education activity booths are clustered in the Youth Corner, but can also be found throughout the Festival. In the program booth listing, look for the yellow smiley face stamp to easily find kid-friendly activities.
| Organization | Activity Title | Activity Description | Booth # |
| Alpacas of Troy | Alpacas! | Learn about the life of alpacas and our farming practices while you pet their amazingly soft fur. | D-2 |
| Archway Achievers 4-H Club | Beekeeping for Beginners | Hands on practice opportunities working with honey bee hives, equipment, and suits. Visitors can practice basic beekeeping activities of inspecting a hive (without bees). | Y-3 Sunday only |
| Big Muddy Adventures | Paddling with Big Muddy Adventures | We’ll have one of our signature 30′ voyager canoes on site for participants of all ages to sit in and paddle. Although we won’t “actually” be on the water, we will demonstrate proper paddling technique and describe what it is like to paddle this canoe on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. RIVERTIME is the best time! | N-3 |
| Citizens’ Climate Lobby | Contact your Member of Congress | Guiding children to write a postcard to their Member of Congress. Conversations about what they love to do outside and what they care about. Learn about Congress and what role the Members play in preserving the things they love. | E-4 |
| Endangered Wolf Center | Field Biologist | All animals are a part of a healthy ecosystem. But how do wildlife biologists track them? Try your hand at searching out the clues for what animals are nearby! | N-27 |
| Japanese Institute of St.Louis | Japanese Recycled Art | Construct your own functional kaleidoscope! Decorate a paper fan that highlights the beauty and functionality of traditional Japanese fans instead of using A/C. Connecting to “mottainai (make best use of it)” spirit.
While your children create, you can experience a traditional Japanese tea ceromony. |
M-2 |
| Metropolitan Congregations United | Environmental Justice: Sensory Activity | Learn about how some toxins are not things we can smell or even taste in our water. Learn how policies are made that can either help or harm the environment. | SJ-2 |
| Missoui Botanical Garden | Pollution Solutions | Discover how plastic never really goes away with this interactive activity. Learn simple solutions you can do in your daily life to reduce plastic pollution, reuse, and recycle! Uncover answers about plastic’s impact on the environment, differences between compostable and biodegradable, and just how reusable water bottles can reduce plastic pollution, and more! | Y-1 |
| Missouri Coalition for the Environment | Environmental Trivia | Challenge yourself to our trivia to win a prize! | M-6 |
| Missouri Gateway Green Building Council | Show-Me Green Schools! | Spin the Green Schools Prize Wheel and learn about green schools and actions that individuals or schools can take to be greener and healthier. | Y-2 |
| Missouri Pollinators Council | Paper making | make recycled paper and wildflower seed bombs.Take home a free piece of dry paper with wildflower seeds in it. and your seed bomb. | Y-6,7 |
| Missouri Prairie Foundation | Show Me Prairie Plants! Seeds, Roots, & Blooms | Check out hands-on activities that demonstrate the power of prairie roots using ropes, as well as examination stations for seed pods, plant cuttings, and blooms. | N-14,15 |
| New Earth Farm | Compost Sandbox | Let your young ones play in our compost sandbox while you learn about composting. | R-8 |
| Saint Louis Science Center | Can plants offset heat? | Come check out our hands-on activity exploring heat islands. Visitors to the booth will use a temperature gun to learn about different materials found in our world and how they can trap or offset heat. | Y-4 |
| Saint Louis Zoo | Coming Soon! | Y-5 | |
| Sign Bridge | Learn a Little ASL | Use stamps to write your name in ASL hand shapes. | SJ-9 |
| St. Louis Teachers’ Recycle Center | VanGO Book Giveaway & The Great Green ReRead Outside | Mobile unit filled with ReUsable and ReReadable children’s books. Come pick one out to keep! | SJ-10 |
| STL Neighborhood Foresters | Tackling Tree Care | Activities to teach you how to prune, mulch, water, and spot issues on trees to empower you to intervene/report when you see a tree in trouble, so that our tree canopy will be healthier over time. | N-28 |
| Stream Teams United | Life in Missouri Streams | See live macroinvertebrates from a local St. Louis stream. learn about how the quality of water within an aquatic habitat influences the number and type of organisms that live there. | N-6 |
| The Bridge Cats | Sew on a Button | Learn how to darn, sew on a button, or do basic hand stitching with extra large versions of these activities so you can really see and understand how the process works. | R-4 |
| The College School | Earth Day Pledge Tree | Come write or draw one way you can help take care of the planet on a leaf-shaped card. Then add your leaf to a growing tree mural, creating a beautiful display of our community’s collective commitment to the Earth. | Y-3 |
| The SEED Program by Kai | Seeds of Change | Listen to the story “We Are Water Protectors” and plant raingarden seeds. | SJ-5 |
| The Waldorf School of St. Louis | Jump Into Fun: Handcrafted Ropes in Motion! | Join us for a hands-on, interactive experience where participants can create their very own handmade jump rope using a traditional jump rope-making machine! | Y-9 Saturday only |
| The Waste Connections Sustainability Campus | What Goes in a Landfill / Importance of Pollinators | Play our game to learn proper waste sorting. Make a bee from pipe cleaners and use it to learn how pollen transfers from plant to plant. | R-1 |
| The Xerces Society | Insect Matching ID Game | Play our game to learn about the diversity of insects in their area and that they are important for pollination, and biodiversity, and play an important role in our lives. | N-24 |
| UpRise Conservation | Learn about Wildlife | Check out our wildlife discovery box! | N-20 |
| WashU EnviroCorps | Native Plants ID and Flower Art | Play our matching card game to learn all about different native plants and what species depend on them.
Make some flower art using pounding and presses) to take home. |
N-18 |
| WashU NOMAS | Teeny Tiny Town | We’re excited to introduce an interactive neighborhood model where community members can come together to design a more walkable, vibrant, and pedestrian-friendly space. Our table-sized model will feature essential landmarks like a school, hospital, community center, and library, all set atop a large paper map. | E-2 |
