Looking for something to do with your family on family day? There's lots to choose from in Edmonton this weekend:
- Horse rides, skating and kids carnival and the Legislature
- Drum and tambourine building sessions, face painting and airbrushed tattoos, a magician, and tours of the various gardens at the Muttart.
- Edmonton Valley Zoo is celebrating Polar Bears International Awareness Day with a lecture from U of A polar bear researcher Dr. Ian Stirling. There’s also an indoor petting zoo, face painting, a scavenger hunt, and polar bear crafts. At 2 p.m., zookeepers will walk two female Arctic wolves around the zoo.
- Metropolis winter festival at Churchill Square (last day), which will open at noon and wrap up at 9 p.m. Roving street performers, free skate rentals, hay rides, face painting, ice sculptors, and a chance to make your own fire-cooked bannock.
- Stanley A. Milner Library will screening Shrek at 2pm, and admission to the nearby Art Gallery of Alberta is free.
- Admission is also free at all other of Alberta’s museums and historic sites. At the Royal Alberta Museum, there will two performances of Project: Whooping Crane, a Green Fools Theatre production which combines puppetry, music and drama. Show times are 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
- At Lacombe Lake Park in St. Albert, there will horse-drawn wagon rides, skating, milk jug curling, and Special Olympics Canada Winter Games on-site from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. At the same time, Heritage Lakes Community Association will also host sleigh rides, human dog sleds, along with free hot chocolate.
- Londonderry Mall is hosting a paper airplane battle, with construction at noon and competition two hours later.
- Tuque tosses and skate races are scheduled for the Silver Skate Festival at Hawrelak Park, where there will also be demonstrations in orienteering, dog sledding, figure skating, and sledge hockey, as well as plenty of other family activities.
