Highlights
Celebrate with us!
The St. David's Center Fall Festival: Celebrating 50 Years will take place on Saturday, September 25, 2010. This family event will include some of the same attractions you've grown to love like horse-drawn hayrides, live animals and woodsy crafts - plus much more!
Where Everybody Belongs
At St. David's Center, inclusion is not a practice or an educational strategy, it is a value. Learn how preschool children, like Jonathan, benefit when they have opportunities to play and learn side-by-side with children of all abilities. Watch video.
Play for All
This fall, St. David's Center will launch the first toddler playground in Minnesota combining inclusive and natural play elements. Learn more.
Hall of Fame of Schools
As a parent of two children who attended St. David's Center, 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee John Randle served as honorary co-chair of our 2010 Gala with his wife Candace and refered to St. David's Center as the "hall of fame of schools" in a Vikings Weekly interview.
2010 Fall Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Saturday, September 25, 2010
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
St. David's Center Grounds
How does St. David's Center kick-off 50 years of enriching the lives of children and families? With a FREE outdoor art and nature adventure for the whole community!
Thank you to our Premier Sponsor:
Wild Activities:
(10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
- Live animals with the Minnesota Zoo
- Hayrides with Cedar River Horse Logging
- Hands-on nature crafts with Minnetonka Center for the Arts
- Giant climbing wall
- Photo op with Smokey Bear
- Spin Art with Your Art's Desire
- Face painting
- Journal making with I Get Around
- and much more!
Main Stage Performances:
(10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
- 10:30 - Minnesota Zoo Animal Show
- 11:15 -Tricia and the Toonies' Enviro-Show (for preschoolers)
- 12:00 - Wildlife Science Center Raptors Show
- 12:45 - Tricia and the Toonies' Enviro-Show (for school-aged)
- 1:30 - Story Time with Kathy-jo Wargin, author of Moose on the Loose
- 1:45 - 50th Anniversary special announcement, music and cupcakes
- 2:00 - Music and performances by Group Home and Adventure participants
Fall Festival Market:
- Nature books from the Bookcase of Wayzata
- Bag to Nature
- 50th Anniversary Souvenirs (t-shirts, cookbooks and more)
- Food and Beverages; Dunn Bros Coffee
Celebration Central:
- 50th Anniversary give-aways and alumni activities
- Grand Opening of our new toddler playground, the first in Minnesota to integrate both inclusive and natural play elements
Print Sponsor
Event Partners
The Bookcase of Wayzata, Chipotle, City of Minnetonka, Cedar River Horse Logging, Craig Nordeen Design, Dairy Queen, Dunn Bros Coffee, Great Harvest Bread Co., Hennepin County Master Gardeners, Kidcreate Studio, Lakewinds Natural Foods, Mad Science, MInnehaha Creek Watershed District, Minnesota DNR, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Minnesota Zoo, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Remarkable Reptiles, Three Rivers Park District, Tricia and the Toonies, Weber's Westdale, Wildlife Science Center, Your Art's Desire
More Information:
For sponsorship and volunteer information, please contact Layne, Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator, at 952-548-8627 or events@stdavidscenter.org.
St. David's Center for Child & Family Development | 3395 Plymouth Road Minnetonka, MN 55305 | (952) 939-0396
Serving Minneapolis and the Greater Twin Cities Metro