Seedlings and Sprouts Spring Schedule 2018

Decorate & Learn Hoops Join local hoopers and staff and Help decorate the shared Kids Tent hoops then stick around for a hands-on movement play-shop consisting of basic techniques and movement, no experience necessary. Kids Tent Friday 10:30am ​

Macramé & Pirate Knots Join Whitney & Grey for these retro projects! Learn and Use ship knot tying to secure camping needs as well as create jewelry or hanging plant holders. Kids Tent Friday ​ 2pm, Sunday 12pm

Sweet Potato Arts Carve potatoes, print with potatoes, participate in potatoes relay races, potato toss, roll potatoes with your nose, play hot potato, and maybe more all thing potato. Kids ​ Tent Friday 4:30pm, Saturday 2pm

Camp Circle Tales & More Join Kids Tent staff for this amazing time of stories and games, camp style. Kids Tent ​ Friday 5:30pm

Poi Make ‘n’ Learn are tethered weights swung through a variety of rhythmical and geometric patterns. Join us as you learn to make your own Poi. Then stick around and learn some basic moves with them to music. Poi refers to both a performance art and the tools used for it. Kids Tent Saturday 10:30am, Sunday 11:30am ​

Wings & Crowns Create the Magical Fun Natural Crowns and Tambourines to celebrate Spring and join the parade later. Always fun and festive. Join our fabulous kids tent crew for this annual event. Kids Tent Saturday 11:30am ​

Parade Prep Come gather and get ready and inspired for the parade. Kids Tent Saturday 12:30 ​

Parade Gather outside the Kids Tent Saturday 2pm as we join Paperhand Puppets and Bull City Strutters for a parade around the festival.

Shakori Bingo Shakori bingo “words” are uniquely chosen from the Shakori Grassroots Festival experience, the winning is fun and the prizes are too. Kids Tent Saturday 5:30pm ​

Mandalas, Prayer Flags, Dream Catchers Come choose to learn and make one of these contemplative crafts. A mandala (pronounced mon-dah-lah), meaning "circle," is a cosmic diagram: a concentric structure of balanced geometrical shapes representing unity and harmony. Join Alisa to create transient art using sand and natural objects. Prayer flags- pictures or words on cloth pieces for hanging outside. Dream catchers- vine rings with yarn or string woven as a web in the ring. Kids Tent, Sunday 10:30am ​

Tye Dye Retro Craft Join Julie & crew to create a giant tie-dye group art. We'll also have smaller-scale related projects. You can Bring your own cotton shirts or bandanas to tye-dye as well.. Kids Tent, Sunday 1pm

Three Sisters Garden Story A Native teaching about sisters corn, squash and bean, their unique story and garden tale, as well as planting and garden visit. Kids Tent Sunday 2:30pm ​

Retro Crafts: Macrame Join Whitney & friends for this Mother's Day project! Use ship knot tying to create jewelry or hanging plant holders. Kids Tent, Fri & Sun 1:30pm ​

Daily at the Kids Tent

Early Morning Creative Centers A window of time for you to come create with Kids Tent staff and special guests. Planned as well as self directed activities to create, share, learn a new skill, read, participate and just come enjoy the morning with us. Kids Tent, Fri, Sat & Sun 9-11am

Presence ‘n’ Play A gabby gathering: a supportive circle for kids; to encourage grounded awareness and community, during the Shakori Grassroots Festival experience. Meet at kids tent will move to Peace garden. Fri, Sat & Sun 9am

Seeds & Sprouts Parents (SSP) Morning Share Parent led discussion and conversation around the Shakori experience. Including sharing of tips, suggestions and lessons learned while camping at Shakori. Bring your coffee or juice and join us in Kids tent for SSP Morning Share. Fri, Sat & Sun 9:15am

Seedlings Play-Time Join Shelley and friends for interactive hands-on centers, activities, special guests & Storytime for the 5 and under crowd. Fri, Sat & Sun 11am-2pm

Face-Painting Our fabulous face painters will make art on you! It’s free, but donations gladly accepted. Kids Tent, Fri, Sat & Sun 1-6pm

Great-Big-Bubbles Join the Bubble Goddess, Brenda & friends, learn the art and patience of creating giant bubbles. Near Kids Tent, Fri, Sat & Sun 4-6pm

Collaborative Workshops

PLARN and Living Landfill will feature a collaboration with our famous Shakori ​ ​ ​ Composting Crew, teaching through building and making how landfills work and some hand on ideas for “reuse” your grocery bags at home.(can Bring bags) Kids Tent PLARN Fri 11am, Landfill Fri 12 noon

Wonderful Worms & TREEmendous Family Hike Join Grand Trees of Chatham for two offerings. Learn about a trees best friend; worms and go on a family hike around the beautiful Shakori land and get to know some of the “Treemendous” trees. Grand Trees of Chatham is a County Manager appointed volunteer organization. http://www.chathamnc.org/government/appointed-boards-and-committees/grand-trees -of-chatham Kids Tent, Worms Fri 1pm Hike Sun 1:30pm

Kids art project with Pittsboro Small Museum of Folk ​ Art https://www.smallmuseumfolkart.org joins us again. Our paintings have decorated ​ outside the museum, our fish/rockets were so cool, our robots rocked, what great project awaits this year. Watch our website and check out the museum. Kids Tent, Fri 3pm

Kids Clowning & Fundamentals Join Liz Bliss of Imagine Circus http://www.imaginecircus.com for clowning around & circus fundamentals! Learn hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, creative expression, partner balancing poses and audience engagement—with balls and red noses, of course! Children must be accompanied by an adult. Kids Tent, Sun 2:30pm

Spread Your Musical Wings The Angel Band Foundation https://www.angelbandfoundation.org shares music ​ ​ education with our youth at Shakori Hills! They bring together musicians of all ages, experience and instruments to create a magical, musical atmosphere! Kids Tent, Sunday 3:30pm

Our outdoor time for YardPlay, Relays or Obstacles in addition to our regular a axing ​ ​ outdoor fun is Hoping to include a visit from the “The Wandering Swordsman” ​ ​ https://thewanderingswordsmen.com/ who’s booth is at Shakori all weekend. Friday 4pm, Sat & Sun 3pm.

Outside out of the Tent

Borrow & Play Hula Hoop Station sign out a hula hoop from inside the tent to use, play and return.

Express Yourself! Areas Add your own to these collaborative boards/displays using various materials!

Fossil Dig & Dino Bones A pit of fossil dirt awaits, Find NC coastal shells, teeth and bones and more! Fri, Sat, Sun 4pm Kids Tent provides guides on a “fossil dig” Or help “reconstruct” a baby dinosaur!