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Mercer Slough
Environmental Education Center

Join our Lake Washington Watershed interns and Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center staff for an hour-long workshop on the second Saturday every month. →Learn More

Does your child like to explore the outdoors? Enjoy scientific field investigations of the natural world? What about canoeing in search of wildlife? If so, join us for our After School Nature Club at the Mercer Slough. We pick up students, after school, from local Bellevue elementary schools, Enatai and Puesta Del Sol, but anyone can join us by getting dropped off directly at the Center. Pacific Science Center will fill up your child's afternoon with snack, hands-on activities, outdoor explorations and lab experiments. We run Nature Clubs on Tuesday and Thursdays, after school at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center. Our Nature Clubs run throughout the school year and are in 8-week session increments. The full 8-week session is $140. Please call (425) 450-0207 for more information about session dates, times.

Toddler Time Tuesdays
Toddler Time is now a monthly program at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue! You and your toddler can join us for a weekly Tuesday program (on four consecutive Tuesdays) that will engage you and your little one in the wonders of nature through art, puppets, stories and hands-on science. More

Age: 5 years and up - Length: 2-1/2 hours

Celebrate your birthday in the wild. Explore the wetlands, play ecology games, search for wetlands creatures and organize your party festivities in our classroom. Choose from a Bug Safari or Animal Mania theme.

Investigate aquatic creatures in our lab (Bug theme) or explore animal skulls and owl pellets (Animal theme), if inclement weather clouds your b'day.

Party Package includes: 1.5 hour guided hike, a bug box or plaster animal track (depends on theme), invitations, room usage for 1 hour PLUS thematic room decorations, table cloths, plates, cups, forks and napkins. Just bring the food and drinks!

Call (206)443-2925 to register.

Age	Group Size	Time	Fee*
6+	Up to 15 Children	Sat, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.	$185
6+	Up to 15 Children	Sat, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.	$185
6+	Up to 15 Children	Sun, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.	$185
6+	Up to 15 Children	Sun, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.	$185
(Children turning 5 yrs. old can have up to 10 children in their party group.) *Pacific Science Center members receive $10 off program fee.

Age	Group Size	Time	Fee*
6+	Up to 25 Children	Sat, 11:00am-1:30pm	$260
6+	Up to 25 Children	Sat, 2:30pm-5:00pm	$260
6+	Up to 25 Children	Sun, 11:00am-1:30pm	$260
6+	Up to 25 Children	Sun, 2:30pm-5:00pm	$260
(Children turning 5 yrs. old can have up to 20 children in their party group.) *Pacific Science Center members receive $10 off program fee.

Ages: 5 - 12 years old - Length: 2 hours

Explore forest, bog and lake habitats while working towards a nature-related scouting badge. Badges are NOT supplied for this program. Join in scavenger hunts, games, experiments and more. $90 per scout group. Week day and weekend times available. Call (206)443-2925 to register.

Boy Scouts of America Badge programs Bear Cubs - Share Their World with Wildlife Wolf Cubs - Birds, Outdoor Adventure (Arrow Point Trail Elective) Tigers - Discover Nature & energy Webelos - Forester, Geologist	Girl Scouts of America Badge programs Daisies - World of the Outdoors Brownies Try-Its - Animals, Earth & Sky, Eco-Explorer, Plants, Watching Wildlife, Water Everywhere Junior Badges - Ecology, Wildlife

Geared to Ages 5 - 8
Celebrate Halloween with our popular spooky night time hikes through our hiking trails. Bring the family (and your costumes) to explore how the nocturnal side lives. We run hourly night hikes the weekend before and after Halloween. Pre-registration is required. Dates are Friday, Oct. 29 - Sunday, Oct. 31. For more information call (206) 443-2925.

Grades: 1-4 (with adults)
Group Size: 12 - 36 participants (1 adult per 5 students)
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00am (Fri-Sat)
Fee: $42/participant.
Join us for an overnight adventure at Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center. Explore our new center and its surrounding wetland with a slew of exciting activities! Our program this year focuses on the amazing adaptations creatures have. Experience the ways creatures survive in the dark as you play games, venture out on a night hike and conduct a series of experiments in our lab. Sleep over in one of our brand new classrooms and then explore the Slough by day during a search for birds and animals. Wrap up your Mercer Slough experience by using nets and our video microscope to discover the creatures that live underwater. Call (206)443-2925 to register your group!

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Programming at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center is provided by
the Russell Family Foundation, Anonymous and JiJi Foundation.