What's Up May 7, 2013

Make a Mother’s Day card in Montpelier May 8

Montpelier residents can  each make a free card for their mothers, grandmothers or anyone special in their lives from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Neff Insurance office. An experienced card maker will be on hand to help participants. The event is open to the public, no age limit. For more information call 765-728-2462.

Movie Day May 11 at Sheets Museum

Sheets Wildlife Museum and Learning Center will be having a movie day at 2 p.m. Saturday. It will last about one hour. The movie will be free. Tours of the museum will be $2 per person. The movie shown will be Wild Alaska. It is a visual portrait of wildlife on The Last Frontier. 

The film was shot in some of the most remote regions of Alaska to show  areas rarely visited. There will be an easy quiz given. The top three youth will receive a gift certificate that can be used in the museum gift shop. 

Seating is limited. Reservations are suggested by calling 260-356-9453.    

Make a Mother’s Day garden gift in Huntington May 11

The Huntington City-Twp. Public Library and Huntington Area Master Gardeners will sponsor a Mother’s Day make and take gardening craft workshop Saturday at the Main Library at 255 W. Park Drive. Kids ages 4 years to grade five are invited to decorate flowerpots and listen to a gardening story. They will then fill their decorated pots with gardening soil and a plant to give away for Mother’s Day. 

This workshop is free of charge, but space is limited and registration is required to attend.  Adults and caregivers are encouraged to attend to assist younger children with their craft project. Call the library’s Children’s Department at 356-2900 to register.

Snake-apalooza May 11 at Limberlost

Learn all about snakes at Limberlost State Historic Site on Saturday, May 11, starting at 11 a.m.

Curt Burnette, Limberlost naturalist, will present a one hour Snake-Apalooza. He will share his knowledge of this often under appreciated member of the animal kingdom. 

Admission is $2 per person. It will take place in the classroom of the new Limberlost Visitor Center.  

The program will feature live snakes, a snake skin, rattlesnake fang, and rattle. Those attending can discover which snakes live in the Limberlost and the state of Indiana, including venomous snakes such as the endangered Massasauga rattlesnake. They will also find out what is the biggest snake in Indiana, in the US, and in the world.  

For more information  call 260-368-7428.