Nature Play Festival - free!

Have fun, explore, and learn outdoors and inside at Discovery Museum’s free Nature Play Festival! We will gather with our community and local businesses to offer immersive nature-based activities throughout our campus including Invasive Plant Papermaking, Mud Kitchen, Bug Hunts, Log and Rock Flipping, and so much more. 

Explore our inclusive, accessible, and giant Treehouse and Discovery Woods nature playscape, and take a guided Nature Walk on the conservation land that abuts our campus. The fun will continue indoors with our STEM-based galleries and hands-on activities.  

We are very happy to welcome the following partners and community organizations to the festival that will be onsite with activities and information for families:

• 350 Mass MetroWest Node​

• Acton Memorial Library​

• All Energy Solar​

• Danny's Place Youth Services​

• Energize Acton​

• Farrington Nature LINC​

• First Connections​

• Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust​

• Mass Audubon​

• Massachusetts Clean Energy Center​

• Mill City Grows​

• The Nature Connection​

• TimberNook​

• Town of Acton Sustainability Office

Sensory accommodations will include a Take-a-Break tent, an ASL interpreter onsite 11:30am to 3:00pm, and ASL yoga in the early afternoon. As always, we will have noise-reducing headphones available to borrow in the lobby.

We will run a continuous, free shuttle bus from Congregation Beth Elohim, 133 Prospect Street, <1 mi away, from 10:15am to 8:15pm. 

There will be food, music, and fun as we connect with nature and appreciate the wonderful planet we all call home.  Free admission for all.  Rain or shine. No reservations.

Please note that we cannot accept camp groups on this day, and any arriving will be turned away.