NPS Photo by Ken Block

Strix the Wonder Owl and Friends at HawkWatch

Special Kids Educational Activities

Kids activities are planned throughout the year. Please check our calendar of events for details. Annual events such as HawkWatch and Children’s Archeology Day offer hands on activities for the entire family.

Junior Ranger Program

A Jr. Ranger Discovery Day Pack with activity booklet is available for loan (at no cost) during visits to the monument. Tools in the back pack include a ruler, magnifying glass, binoculars and identification guides.

A Junior Ranger Activity Booklet is available (for purchase) in our bookstore to help Jr. Rangers to explore Effigy Mounds National Monument, develop an understanding and appreciation of the prehistoric American Indian people that inhabited this area so long ago, experience the natural environment here and along the Upper Mississippi River Valley, and learn about the National Park Service’s mission to preserve and protect natural and cultural resources of the United States.

The activity book contains on-site activities; a certificate and patch is presented upon completion.

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