Cricket Challenges: Building Outdoor Skills and Connecting with Nature

Cricket Challenges: Building Outdoor Skills and Connecting with Nature

Bring a parent, guardian or adult buddy, and take a Cricket Challenge! Jo Watson Hackl the best-selling author of Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe (Random House Children’s Books), will provide a behind-the -scenes look at the real-life inspiration for her award-winning book and autograph copies. Then, together with experienced outdoor survival instructor Alex Garcia, she will lead participants through a variety of outdoor activities including:

  • Learning the Weasel Walk and the Fox Walk to help you melt into the woods to observe nature in its purest form;
  • Becoming the Keeper of the Flame
  • Going on a nature scavenger hunt
  • Creating a Discovery Center and a Nature Wonder Hour
  • Creating a nature Journal
  • Making fishing line out of honeysuckle vines


See schedule below!
1 PM – 2 PM: Session 1
3 PM – 4 PM: Session 2