The friends will be at the nature center making a couple different crafts, celebrating the Chinese New Year with a snake craft, a snow globe, and coffee cup suet feeders. “The Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac is a time for transformation, self-improvement, and embracing new possibilities.” Please register 24 hours in advance at 518-793-0511.

Join an educator on a start and stop hike for a couple miles to investigate the forested landscape. Learning from Tom Wessels’ books and videos on understanding the history, human activity, and natural events like storms and fires and how it formed the physical forest around us. This program is free and geared toward 13+.