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'Bee Maze,' Fun For Kids At 2025 Water Festival In RSM: What To Know
The Santa Margarita Water District's annual Water Festival is underway. What to know.
Enjoy a fun day learning about H2O and getting to know your water provider. Enjoy food and children’s activities, experience a living tide pool, explore the WaterWorks Garden, and speak with garden pros and water district experts. Be sure to plan on viewing the movie The Journey of Water and signing up for an Infrastructure Tour.
Family Activities
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- Infrastructure Tours: Sign-ups will be available on the day of the event
- Live caterpillars/butterflies, ladybugs, or praying mantis
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- Water testing experiment
- Build a worm-composting box
- Inflatable zipline and bee maze
- Live reptiles
- Water education
- Aquarium experience: Birds of prey: owls and hawks by OC Bird of Prey Center
- Observe pollinators: Bats and moths; take a quiz, and ask questions
- Puppet show
- Read books with the RSM Library
- Touch Rosie the snake with Rancho Mission Viejo Reserve
- Stroll through the WaterWorks Garden and converse with garden experts amidst beautiful California-friendly plants.
The 2025 Water Festival takes place Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Santa Margarita Water District Headquarters, 26111 Antonio Parkway.
For more information, visit SMWD.com/Festival.
This press release was produced by the City of Rancho Santa Margarita. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
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