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Thanks for purchasing a postcard pack! You can find instructions and resources for each of the postcard invites below.

How to use the postcard pack:

  1. Fill out, address, and mail each postcard to a friend

  2. Coordinate to set the time and date

  3. Bring and fill out the postcards as required for a lasting memento

 

Visit a free festival to discover a unique culture that makes up our city.

While you’re there, take the following field notes:

Food we tried:
Dance we watched:
Word we learned:
Festive outfit we saw:

Festivals you can check-out:

  1. Expo Latino: Aug 16th

  2. Philippine Summer Festival: Aug 9-10th

  3. Carifest: Aug 15-17th

  4. indiYEAH! Fest: Aug 16th

  5. Calgary Chinatown Street Festival: Aug 16th

  6. Kiitaamoko Passkaan Powwow: Sept 13th

Interested in doing more?

Interested in building cross-cultural connections? Check-out Action Dignity to support their work: actiondignity.org

Your task is to identify 5 species of birds.

You can download the following apps to help you identify birds on your walk:

iNaturalist
eBird
Merlin Bird ID

For your walk, local bird experts recommend visiting Nose Hill, the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, the Bow River, Carburn Park, or the Weaslehead.


Interested in doing more?

Are you excited to explore more local natural wonders? Join one of Nature Calgary’s field trips! naturecalgary.com/field-trips/

 

Visit a local park for a pollinator inspired picnic.

Like the bees, enjoy the flowers, sip on a homemade honey cocktail (recipe below), and marvel at the hard work of creatures big and small to create beautiful gardens.

For great flowers, you can check-out:

Riley Park Gardens

Beaulieu Gardens at Lougheed House

Botanical Gardens of Silver Springs

Reader Rock Gardens


Your Recipe: Honey Rhubarb Lemon Spritz

Start out by making a simple flavoured honey syrup with rhubarb. You can also use raspberries, cherries, or any other summer fruit to make this refreshing spritz.

Rhubarb Honey Syrup (makes about 1 cup)

5 ounces rhubarb, diced (about 1 stalk)
4-5 tablespoons honey
8 ounces water, (1 cup)

  1. Place rhubarb, honey, and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat and then reduce to a simmer. Simmer very gently for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove from heat and let cool just slightly before straining it through a colander to remove the rhubarb “pulp”. Try to get as much liquid from the rhubarb when straining.

  3. Then let cool completely.

    Rhubarb Lemonade Spritzer (1 serving)

3 ounces rhubarb honey syrup, 1/3 cup
2 ounces fresh lemon juice, 1/4 cup
2 ounces sparkling water

  1. Combine the syrup and lemon juice in a mason jar. Bring the jar, a thermos of ice, and a can of sparkling water to the park with you. Combine and enjoy!


Interested in doing more?

Learn about urban beekeeping: calgarybeekeepers.com

Find the following celestial bodies and explore Indigenous stories

To identify these constellations and explore the stories, use the Rothney Observatory Indigenous Skies site as a guide:

Look for the following in the summer night sky:

  1. Atima Atchakosuk - the dog stars in Cree tradition

  2. Makoyoohsokoyi - the path that wolves came down to the earth in Blackfoot tradition

  3. Ponoka - A star cluster and Cree story of a hunter called Ponoka

  4. Matootisan - In Cree tradition, a star cluster that represent sweat lodge fire and rocks

  5. The Morning Star - The woman who married morning star is a story in Siksika tradition


Interested in doing more?

Be an amateur scientist! Make brightness observations of the night sky over your home, and submit them to the University of Calgary: science.ucalgary.ca/rothney-observatory/citizen-science-form

 

Grab your bicycle (and your friend) and hit the paths! We’ll have a beautiful day and complete these five tasks.

Your Bicycle Scavenger Hunt tasks are:

  1. We’ll identify a new species: a plant, bug or bird

  2. I’ll (the inviter) take you (the invitee) to my favourite mural or public art piece

  3. We’ll listen to your favourite song on my favourite bench

  4. I’ll buy you an ice cream cone of my favourite flavour

  5. We’ll find a dog to pet that isn’t ours

Interested in doing more?

Looking for more outside fun? Join an Adult Recess class to get in touch with your sense of play: recesscalgary.ca