The Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha Children’s Water Festival (HMKCWF) has, for 13 years, been an annual outdoor Fall event that informs and inspires elementary students of this region to become water stewards in their homes, classrooms and communities. Children have fun while visiting a variety of hands-on activity stations where they learn about all things water, while making ecological connections to the natural world around them.
Since 2012, we have provided information, guidance and resources for Teachers to use in integrating engaging water stewardship lessons into their classes throughout the year. In 2021 we developed Water Week: an updated set of such resources, all available under the Teachers tab.
We are adapting our programs through the pandemic and climate change; in 2022 we revived our in-person Fall event with updated safety protocols and have started to develop and launched a series of water festival outdoor activities for families, such as storyboard walks at public parks and community events. We continue to combine experiential activities with messages relevant to youth's daily lives, through which they can 'soak up' knowledge on the properties, uses, connections and importance of water through these and our Waterheroes on-line programs.
Our programming has been offered free of charge since 2005, thanks to the generosity of volunteers, partner programs and sponsors. Please contact us for more information or to get involved!
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve set 2023 dates for our main event, the in-person Fall Festival held at Kinark Outdoor Centre ~ Thursday October 5th and Friday October 6th. We look forward to returning to a 2-day festival and involving more students as we do should the resources required…
Whether it’s on the day of our main event or throughout the year, HMK CWF volunteers have fun while supporting water stewardship education. ‘Water-we-offering’ in ways to help this year ? Learn more , connect with our community making a difference ! Volunteer Roles through the year (beyond @ Fall…
The Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha Children’s Water Festival acknowledge that our events are hosted and our education about watersheds based within the traditional territories of Anishinabek peoples, the Ojibway and Wendat / Huron Nations and now include communities of the Mohawk, the Pottawatomi and the Métis Nations ~ those within the Williams and…
They say when one door closes another opens.. Well in this case, one door closed and two opened! It is with appreciative hearts that the HMK Children’s Water Festival says goodbye and many thanks to former Coordinator Irene Heaven, who was the river, the ocean and the driving rain powering…
