MONARCH EDUCATION
Tag and Release Monarchs with the University of Minnesota Monarch Lab.  ( $1 donation suggested for personal tag.)   Receive word if your Monarch is ever captured or found along the migration route. Hourly releases are planned, but times may depend on the outside temperature.

NATIVE PLANT INFORMATION & SALES
Nokomis Naturescape Garden tours by volunteers and gardeners from the Wild Ones. Learn how to entice Monarchs to your yard with plants and gardens. Information kiosks and demonstrations

The popular Native Plant sales and demonstrations by Outback Nursery and Landscape Alternatives will return for 2010.

MAKE MILKWEED MUDBALLS
Create mudballs containing local milkweed seed for planting in your home garden. Did you know that members of the milkweed family are the only food source in Minnesota for monarch larvae?

ART and FUN ACTIVITIES
- Help create a large butterfly collage with ArtsySmartsy
- Create monarch-inspired art and watch it printed with a   steamroller (really!).
- Draw your own piece with Art in the Park (a program of   the Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
- Create butterfly kites that will be displayed on poles    around Festival.
- Create Monarch Mandalas with local artist Richard    Bonk.
- Play Monarch Bingo, the Amazing Migration    Passport game, and Monarch Jeopardy.

3/4K Kids Butterfly Fun Run and
5K Run for the Monarchs
(These are untimed "fun runs" and walks)

Prizes awarded to runners in the Kid's Fun Run for the best monarch wings, antennae, or caterpillar look.   Prizes awarded in the 5K Run for the Monarchs (Adult run) for the first three runners over the Finish line.

Proceeds from the Run for the Monarchs benefit Monarch butterfly habitat in the Minneapolis Parks and the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve located in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.

Other Activities
Canoe tours on Lake Nokomis with a guide.