Event List

Clean and cut vegetables as toppings to your personal pizza pocket. Add cheese, sauce, and meat as you please! We'll be making ranch from scratch and a fresh salad to round out our meal.

Join us for a special crafternoon in collaboration with the Charlevoix Evening Garden Club! Kids ages 6 and up can join us to decorate plant pots and create personalized cards.

What do you see and do in your daily life? How will you express what's important to you? Paint symbols and images like people have on cave walls all over the world for millennia. 

Join us to make deliciously fruity smoothies!

Every half day of school at CMHS, the teen lounge will offer a snack and activity to keep you entertained! We have crafts, a Switch, and computer games. Stop in and see what we're offering.

Every half day of school at CMHS, the teen lounge will offer a snack and activity to keep you entertained! We have crafts, a Switch, and computer games. Stop in and see what we're offering.

Every half day of school at CMHS, the teen lounge will offer a snack and activity to keep you entertained! We have crafts, a Switch, and computer games. Stop in and see what we're offering.

Join us in the Youth Activity Center for Lego-building fun! Recommended for ages 6 and up. 

Stop by the library to kick off Summer Reading Club! The theme this year is Unearth a Story! We invite you to dig into a good book, uncover hidden histories, and/or explore the past.

Stop by the Youth Activity Center between 2pm and 4pm to create a unique Tape Resist Bookmark. Recommended for kids ages 6 and up. 

Join us in the Children’s Garden to meet and greet local birds of prey at this fun and interactive program presented by North Sky Raptor Sanctuary.

A lot of depictions of dinosaurs are wrong anyway, so why not make it your own? Customize your own mini dinosaur figure with paint and glitter. Will you make him a clown? A princess? Or something more realistic?

Children and their parents and caregivers are invited to take part in an interactive sensory MESStival in the Children’s Garden!

Join us in the Youth Activity Center for Lego-building fun! Recommended for ages 6 and up. 

Stop by the Youth Activity Center between 2pm and 4pm to create a unique Tissue Paper Dinosaur. Recommended for kids ages 6 and up. 

Decorate a bookmark made in Egypt from real papyrus, a plant Egyptians have been using for thousands of years to make paper.

Come learn about the science of cotton candy! Chemists of all ages will enjoy this interactive show about one of our favorite sweet treats. This program will take place in Community Rooms A&B. 

Join us in the Youth Activity Center for Lego-building fun! Recommended for ages 6 and up. 

Dive into this fun program where we’ll make a splash with a mermaid meet and greet at Michigan Beach Park in Charlevoix. Kids will get to visit and take photos with Mermaid Phantom – a real, live mermaid!

Stop by the Youth Activity Center between 2pm and 4pm to decorate your very own picture frame. Recommended for ages 6 and up.

All are welcome to enjoy Little Traverse Conservancy's newest preserve - Enji-minozhiiyaamigak: Place of Peacefulness Preserve.

Wildlife veterinarian, photographer, and author Dr. Carl Palazzolo joins us to celebrate the comeback of the bald eagle in Michigan. He will discuss bald eagle behavior and rehabilitation.

Cultures all over the world have been sculpting figures since prehistoric times. Will you make the Venus of Willendorf, Egyptian Shabti, or a terracotta army?

Dive into the enchanting world of music with 'Little Waves,' a children's program presented by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra (GLCO).

Dive into the enchanting world of music with 'Little Waves,' a children's program presented by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra (GLCO).