Goal for the weekend: FUN, interactive learning experiences.

From recycled paper projects to building biomes, from a magician to a storyteller, The Kids Zone programs create a space where children can learn about their environment and begin to understand how the choices they make can help change their world and their community.

Location: The Hort Building (Building C on the Fair map) at the Walworth County Fairgrounds

Schedule:

Friday, July 8

1 p.m. - 4 p.m. -- Bill Bosworth of The Science Alliance and his "World Works!" environmental program where children learn about recycling, composting, the water cycle and acid rain with the use of visual demonstrations and active participation.

After the show, kids will create their own take-home mini ecosystem in a "double-dome biome," building a completely livable habitat for a minnow, an insect and plants.

Saturday, July 9

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. -- Seno Woodland Educational Center provides a variety of one-hour based activities centering around recycled paper, pond peeking, Wildlife in Learning Design (Project WILD), and Learning Tree Activities. All the activities are appropriate for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. There will be environmental board games and crayons available as well.

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. -- Chris Brookes, veteran storyteller and performer will do a reader's theatre workshop for older children.

Sunday, July 10

10 a.m. - 4 p.m. -- Walworth County's Public Education Program presents 'Trash Time, the Magic of Going Green,' with Time Glander, a local certified education and professional magician. With a little magic and lots of fun, children will be introduced to the new '3 R's'; reduce, reuse, and recycle.

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. -- Chris Brookes, veteran storyteller and performer will do a reader's theatre workshop for older children.

Additional fun throughout the three days of the Fair

Wisconsin’s K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) will provide numerous materials for kids to use to better understand energy including a hand-crank generator that will help kids discover how much energy it takes to light up an incandescent light bulb and a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and what that means for energy conservation.