 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2026 Week of October 26, with a look ahead through mid November. Fifteen things this week, each with a link you can tap. Three of them close registration before the event and the nearest one is an email you can send tonight. One correction to last week and one date to circle. The correction: Maricopa County Parks has posted its November programs after all. Its calendar page only ever shows the month you are standing in, which is why November looked empty, and all three deadline items below are November dates. The date: Tuesday Nov 17 is National Take a Hike Day and the county is waiving park entry at its regional parks for it. | | | ✓ | No link, no mention. Every price, date and address was checked against the venue's own page on Friday, October 23. If it could not be verified, it is not here. |
| | |  | | | REGISTER BY NOV 5 MESA Introduction to Archery at Usery Mountain Rangers Nikki and Olivia are both certified Basic Archery Instructors, and they teach International Style Target Archery from nothing: safety, stance, shooting form, aiming. About an hour of instruction and practice on the range, a short break, then about an hour of target games and skills tests. All equipment is provided, so nobody needs to own a bow. The printed age floor is 10 and up, which makes this one of the very few county programs that names an age and names one that actually fits upper elementary. Registration closes Thursday Nov 5. The class is Saturday Nov 7, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. No program fee. The page says the class is included with your park entry, and entry is $10 per vehicle, or $120 for an annual pass good at every county park. Limit 10 participants. Registration is by email only: Ranger Nikki at nikki.bunnell@maricopa.gov, with your phone number and the names of everyone coming. Questions to 602-506-2930 ext 4. Meet at the Archery Range. Closed-toe shoes, sun-protective clothing, snacks and plenty of water. Arrive 15 minutes early, because the page warns that late arrivals may not be able to participate. Mesa. | | | REGISTER BY NOV 10 FOUNTAIN HILLS Edible Plants Hike at McDowell Mountain Ranger Jacque walks the Wagner Trail and stops at the native plants people out here actually ate and used as medicine, explaining which parts were used and how. The route is printed, which is rarer than it should be: 2.2 miles, rated easy, gravelly terrain, 124 feet of elevation change. That is a real walk an upper elementary kid finishes without complaint, and the payoff is being able to name plants you have driven past your whole life. Registration closes Tuesday Nov 10. The hike is Thursday Nov 12, 9 to 11 a.m. No program fee is printed. Park entry is $10 per vehicle. Limit 20 participants. Call the Nature Center at 602-506-2930 ext. 3 with your name, phone number and how many are coming. Meet at the Wagner Trailhead. There are no restrooms at the trailhead, so use the campground restroom on the way in. Closed-toe shoes, plenty of water, sunscreen and a hat. Arrive 15 minutes early to check in at the contact station. Fountain Hills. | | | REGISTER BY NOV 12 QUEEN CREEK Stars and Saguaros Hike at San Tan Mountain Ranger Derik takes a three mile night hike up a sandy wash under cliff walls, naming desert animals and plants as the light goes, then stops to stargaze once the sun is down. Be honest with yourself about the distance first. Three miles in deep sand after dark is the most physical thing in this issue and the park prints no difficulty rating at all. If your kid fades by eight o'clock, skip it. If they do not, the walls and the dark do most of the work for you. Registration closes Thursday Nov 12. The hike is Friday Nov 13, 5 to 8 p.m. The page says to come with 10 dollars or a current Maricopa County Park pass for the pay station, which is the standard day use gate fee the county prints as $10 per vehicle. Limit 25 participants. Call the Nature Center at 602-506-2930 ext. 7 with your name, phone number and how many are coming. Meet at the Rock Peak Wash Trailhead. Water, a flashlight and proper shoes, and the page says hiking poles help in the deeper sand. Queen Creek. | | |  | | Dated items only. Three of these five cost nothing, and the first one is the only thing on the county's whole fall calendar written for homeschool families specifically. | | | THU NOV 5 · WADDELL $10 A CARLOAD Discovery Arizona Homeschool Day at White Tank This is the rare item built for you rather than adapted to you. Three ranger led workshops run at the same time, 35 minutes each, with start times every 40 minutes from 9 a.m., and you pick your slots off a sign-up sheet when you walk in. Arizona Rocks has them act out the rock cycle as a game, handle quartz and mica, then trace those minerals into objects around the house. Ancient Ones puts replica indigenous tools in their hands and ends with them making pictograph art from ancient symbols. Magnificent Mammals covers how desert mammals survive the heat, then runs a game where each kid works out from adaptation clues which mammal they are. WHEN Thursday Nov 5
9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Workshop start times are 9:00, 9:40, 10:20, 11:00 and 11:40 a.m.
All three workshops run at every start time COST No program fee is printed. Park entry is $10 per vehicle, so the entire morning is one gate fee for the car. An annual pass good at every county park is $120. WHERE White Tank Mountain Regional Park, 20304 W. White Tank Mountain Road, Waddell. Everything meets at the Nature Center. AGES No age range is printed. It is billed to homeschool families and all three workshops sit in the hands-on middle of that: a rock cycle game, replica tools and an adaptations game all work for upper elementary. Nothing here is a craft table for little ones. SIGNING UP Nothing in advance. Add your name to the sign-up sheet at the Nature Center when you arrive and pick a start time. There is a limit of 20 people per time slot, first come first served. Park phone 602-506-2930 ext. 5. WHAT TO BRING Closed-toe shoes, sun-protective clothing, a hat and plenty of water. Restrooms and water are at the Nature Center. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Walking is minimal and on compacted gravel right by the Nature Center, so this is not a hiking morning and the shoes advice is about the gravel. Because the slots are first come and capped at 20, arriving for the 9:00 block is what gets you all three workshops before it ends at 12:15. The park says to give yourself two hours to do all three. | | | SAT NOV 7 · SUPERIOR $10 A CHILD, ADULTS FREE Nature journaling workshop at Boyce Thompson An hour that teaches a skill instead of filling a morning. They learn what a nature journal is and how to build one, then start their own on a hike through the arboretum, recording what is actually in front of them rather than copying a worksheet. This is the most transferable thing in the issue: the journal goes home and keeps working all winter, which is more than most paid field trips manage. WHEN Saturday Nov 7
10 to 11 a.m. COST $10 per non-member child, $8 per member child, and up to two adults free with a child. The page does not say whether general arboretum admission is included, so ask when you register. For scale, the arboretum prints general admission at $24.95 for adults and for youth 13 to 17, and $10 for children 5 to 12. WHERE Boyce Thompson Arboretum, 37615 E. Arboretum Way, Superior. No meeting point inside the grounds is printed, so allow time to find it. AGES The child rate is printed for ages 5 to 17, so the room will span a wide range. Journaling is one of the few activities where that barely matters, because an upper elementary kid simply writes and draws more than a six year old does. SIGNING UP Required, through the arboretum's registration page. Adults have to register too, even though up to two are free, and the page says no more than two participating adults per family. No cap and no deadline are printed. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Superior is the longest drive in this section, roughly an hour out from the East Valley, and early November is when the arboretum's fall color earns the trip on its own. Arboretum hours October through March are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with last admission an hour before close. The same series runs Fall Color Fun on Nov 14 at the same hour and the same price, so a miss this week is not a miss for the month. | | | FRI NOV 13 · WADDELL FREE STEAM Studio: Magnet Maze at White Tank Library An hour on magnetism that ends with a paper plate magnet maze they take home and keep playing with. That is the whole appeal: a real physics idea, magnetic force acting through a barrier, turned into an object instead of a worksheet. Sixteen seats a session and registration opens Oct 30, so this week this is a calendar reminder more than a plan. WHEN Friday Nov 13
2 to 3 p.m.
A second session runs Saturday Nov 14 at 2 p.m. Register for one, not both. COST Free. The page prints no cost, and Maricopa County Library District programs carry no fee. WHERE White Tank Library, 20304 W White Tank Mountain Rd, Waddell. The program is in the Library Event Room. AGES Ages 7 to 12, printed twice, including the line that the event is exclusively for that range. A 5th and a 6th grader both sit inside it near the top, so expect a room that skews younger than they are. SIGNING UP Required, with no drop-ins. Registration opens Oct 30 at 8 a.m. through the library's event page. Each session takes a maximum of 16 children, set by the table and chair seating. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Same road as White Tank Mountain Regional Park, so if you are already going out there for the homeschool day on Nov 5 you will know the drive. Put Oct 30 at 8 a.m. in your phone, because 32 seats across both sessions for the whole West Valley will not last the morning. | | | SAT NOV 14 · PHOENIX FREE Nature Fest PHX at the Rio Salado Four free hours on a restored stretch of the Salt River with live wildlife encounters, guided walks, an art zone and food. Last year drew more than 1,000 people and 45 local environmental nonprofits, and that second number is the actual reason to go. A kid who will talk to adults can have real conversations with wildlife rehabbers and watershed people in one morning, and you walk out holding flyers for the next two months of winter programming. Come at 8 a.m. and there is a river cleanup first. WHEN Saturday Nov 14
Festival 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Community river cleanup 8 to 9 a.m., before the festival opens COST Free. The city calls it a free community festival. Food vendors are on site, so bring money if you plan to eat there rather than pack. WHERE Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area, Northeast 7th Avenue Trailhead, 2801 S. 7th Avenue, Phoenix AGES The city says family-friendly outdoor activities designed for all ages. With 45 organizations tabling, an upper elementary kid can steer their own morning, which is the age this kind of event starts to pay off rather than overwhelm. SIGNING UP Nothing required. The page does not say registration is needed and links an Eventbrite page only as a way to add it to your calendar. The volunteer sign-up is separate from attending. ALSO WORTH KNOWING The published zones are Nature Nook Shows, Event Activities, Art Zone and Food Vendors, and the city posts an event map. Shade is thin along the Rio Salado even in November, so water and hats. Central Phoenix, so it is the easiest drive in this section from anywhere in the Valley. | | | SUN NOV 15 · PHOENIX FREE Native American and Wildlife Celebration at Liberty Wildlife A free day that opens with a blessing of the eagles, with live eagles up close and hundreds of people cleansed with smoke from sacred sage, then moves into Native dancers, singers and drummers. The Interactive Room and the Education Trail stay open all day with ambassador animals out, live eagles, hawks, owls and falcons on exhibit, and a raptor free flight show that puts hawks over the crowd. Native artists sell jewelry, beadwork, carvings and baskets, and there is Native food. WHEN Sunday Nov 15
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Native American vendors are on site 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The day opens with the blessing of the eagles COST Free. Beverages and snacks are on sale all day, and the page says those are cash or Venmo, so bring cash if you want to buy anything from the vendors too. WHERE Liberty Wildlife, 2600 E Elwood St, Phoenix AGES No ages are printed. It is a walking, standing, outdoor day on an education trail rather than a sit-down program, which suits upper elementary considerably better than it suits a stroller. SIGNING UP The page does not say registration is required and prints no registration link and no cap. Questions to 480-998-5550 or info@libertywildlife.org. ALSO WORTH KNOWING The page says the blessing of the eagles has become a major event with hundreds of people coming, so arrive early if that is the part you want to see rather than hear about. Seven and a half hours is the window, not the visit. Pick the blessing in the morning, or the free flight show and the trail later, and do not try to do the whole day. | | |  | | Standing options with no date to hit. A staffed nature center, a Hohokam village you read yourself off the signs, and forty five minutes of art in a 1919 house. | | | BIGGEST MONEY SAVER MON TO SUN · CHANDLER FREE Chandler Nature Center at Veterans Oasis Park The best free weekday morning on this page, and the only one that is staffed. Live Arizona animals are on exhibit and the page names them: desert hairy scorpion, desert blonde tarantula, gopher snake, king snake, desert tortoises and Apache trout. Inside there is a mineral cave of specimens from mines beneath Arizona's mountains, which drops straight into a rocks and minerals unit. Outside, 113 acres and 4.5 miles of trails around a lake and recharge basins. Borrow an Outdoor Discovery Field Pack at the desk and self-guide the whole thing. WHEN Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Closed Veterans Day, which is Nov 11, and Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day COST Free. The Center's page prints no admission charge and lists its drop-in programs as free with no pre-registration. The only fees printed anywhere on it are for Break Time activities and room rentals, and you need neither in order to visit. WHERE Chandler Nature Center, 4050 E. Chandler Heights Road, Chandler, inside Veterans Oasis Park AGES The only printed age range on the page is Building Blocks, ages 3 to 5, and that is the single thing here aimed below this age. The live animals, the mineral cave and the trails all hold an upper elementary kid fine. SIGNING UP None. The drop-in programs require no pre-registration and the field packs are self-guided during open hours. WHAT TO BRING Water and a hat. The lake loop is open and there is little shade, so an 8 a.m. arrival is better than an 11 a.m. one even in November. ALSO WORTH KNOWING The free drop-ins run on a printed schedule: Meet the Snakes on the first Wednesday and the first Friday of the month at 3:30 p.m., Trout Time on the second Friday at 3:30 p.m., and the Plant Clinic on the first Thursday at 6 p.m. Two season notes. The Native Plant Oasis is open for viewing Fridays 9 a.m. to noon, October through May, so it is open right now. And the free Family Bird Walks start their season on the first Saturday in November at 8 a.m. and run monthly through April. | | | DAILY · NORTH OF CAREFREE FREE Sears-Kay Ruin, Tonto National Forest A hilltop Hohokam village with a self-guided one mile loop through the stone room outlines and compound walls, and interpretive signs that tell you what each cluster of rock used to be. The Forest Service labels it a fee free area with no passes required, which makes it the cheapest archaeology anywhere in this issue. At 3,400 feet the view out over the Sonoran Desert answers the why would anyone build here question before a kid has to ask it. Three ramadas with picnic tables and grills at the staging area turn it into a packed lunch day rather than a stop. WHEN Day use only, open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., year round. Late October through winter is the season for it: this is a rocky, exposed, shadeless climb that is no fun in summer. COST Free. The Forest Service page says no fees are required for this site and labels it a Fee Free Area, No Passes Required. WHERE There is no street address. From Carefree, take Cave Creek Road, Seven Springs Road or Forest Road 24 about 14 miles north. The nearest office is the Cave Creek Ranger Station, 40202 North Cave Creek Rd., Scottsdale, 480-595-3300. AGES No age guidance is printed. A one mile loop with signs to read is close to the right size for upper elementary: enough walking to count as a hike, short enough that nobody falls apart halfway. The Forest Service dates first occupation of the site to about 1500 AD. SIGNING UP None at all. Drive out and walk up. WHAT TO BRING All of your water, because the page says potable water is not available at this site. Vault toilets only. Real shoes, because the trail is rocky. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Paved parking for only 8 vehicles, so a weekday morning beats a Saturday. No trailers allowed, and the last stretch in is dirt road. The page gives 1-800-VANDALS for reporting looting or vandalism, which is itself a conversation worth having with a kid standing in a room somebody built five hundred years ago. | | | TUE TO SAT · PHOENIX FREE Shemer Art Center Rotating shows by Arizona artists in the rooms of a 1919 house, so the architecture and the art arrive on the same free ticket. Be clear about the size of it: this is a focused forty five minutes, not a half day, and that is exactly what makes it useful. Give a kid one instruction, pick a piece and defend it, and you have run a whole art criticism lesson before lunch. Walk in with no instruction and it is a twelve minute visit. WHEN Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed Sunday and Monday
The page notes gallery hours are the exception on weekend event days, so check before a Saturday drive COST Free, with a suggested donation of $7 per person or $10 per couple. Suggested is the operative word, so decide your number in the car. On-site parking is free. WHERE Shemer Art Center, 5005 East Camelback Road, Phoenix. The entrance gates are on Arcadia Drive, which is 48th Street, not on Camelback itself. AGES No age guidance is printed. Regional work in a small space suits an upper elementary kid who has been given a task to do. SIGNING UP Nothing required for an ordinary visit. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Exhibitions rotate and there is no permanent collection, so there is nothing you can count on being up in a given week. Call 602-262-4727 if you want to know what is hanging before you drive over. The grounds are walkable and make a decent sketching stop whatever is in the galleries. | | |  | | The best standing homeschool rate in the Valley, a three dollar field trip onto a real Hohokam platform mound, and a working candy factory that takes walk-ins. None of the three needs a group. | | | BEST STANDING DEAL TUE TO FRI · MESA $6 A PERSON Arizona Museum of Natural History homeschool rate Six dollars a head, Tuesday through Friday, all year, with no group minimum and no booking form. You walk up, show a copy of your notarized affidavit, and pay $6 for everyone including the adults. Inside: life-sized dinosaur replicas and prehistoric mammals, a geology section with minerals and cave formations, artifacts from ancient civilizations, working paleontologists on site, and a three-story waterfall that simulates a flash flood. The galleries are tied to Arizona state academic standards, which is the part that makes the write-up afterward easy. WHEN Tuesday to Friday, year round, within museum hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays. The museum is also open Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m., but at regular admission. Closed most federal and city holidays. COST $6 per person for self-guided field trips. Regular admission is $16 for adults, $13 for seniors 65 and over, $9 for children 3 to 12, and free under 3. Four people at the homeschool rate is $24 against $50 at the gate, so a family of four saves $26 on every single visit. WHERE Arizona Museum of Natural History, 53 N Macdonald, Mesa AGES The discount is printed for children 6 to 16, and adults serving as educators or chaperones get it too. Children under 6 or over 16 pay regular admission. Upper elementary sits in the middle of that range rather than at an edge of it, which is unusual for this issue. SIGNING UP None. No booking, no form, no lead time, and no minimum group size is stated. Bring a copy of your notarized affidavit of intent to homeschool, filed with the county school superintendent, and present it to Guest Experience staff. ALSO WORTH KNOWING On ESA, the museum's own advice is to pay general admission and submit the itemized receipt for reimbursement, and it warns in the same breath that its receipts do not show the child's name and that it cannot guarantee the program will accept them. The museum also runs free Learning ReimaginED courses online, including a Dinosaur Hall tour led by its chief curator. Check for gallery closures before you drive over, because the museum asks you to. | | | MON, THU, FRI · PHOENIX $3 A STUDENT S'edav Va'aki Museum school field trip Three dollars a student to walk on a real Hohokam platform mound and ballcourt inside Phoenix city limits, a National Historic Landmark rather than a reconstruction somewhere else. The outdoor trail has full-size reproduction Hohokam houses you go inside, so the lesson about how a pit house was built happens by standing in one. Indoors are the excavated ceramics, shell jewelry and ground stone tools, plus the material on the canal system, which the museum calls one of the largest and most sophisticated in the New World. WHEN Field trips run Monday, Thursday and Friday, starting at 10 a.m. The visit runs 1.5 to 2 hours. The site is closed Tuesday and Wednesday. COST $3 per student. One teacher or chaperone is free for every 7 students, and extra chaperones pay the $13 full adult admission. An optional take-home craft is $4 per student. Regular admission is $13 adult, $10 senior 65 and over, $6 youth 6 to 17, free under 6. Two students and one free chaperone is $6, with a second adult at $13, so $19 against $38 at the gate. WHERE S'edav Va'aki Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix, on the southeast corner of 44th Street and Washington AGES No grade range is printed on the reservations page. Walking into a reproduction pit house and working through the canal material is solidly upper elementary, and the $4 craft is the part that skews younger. SIGNING UP Call 602-495-0901 at least two weeks ahead. No minimum group size is stated. The maximum is 60 children per visit. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Do not take the group rate by mistake. The same page offers $10 per person for groups of 20 or more paid in a single transaction, which is worse than the $3 school rate and worse than the $6 youth price at the gate. Take the school rate. The craft fee is the one number the city's own pages disagree on, so confirm it on the phone. It is mostly outdoors, which makes a 10 a.m. start in November pleasant and the same start in April punishing. | | | WEEKDAYS · GLENDALE $7 A PERSON, OR $11.50 WITH THE TAFFY PULL Cerreta Candy Company factory tour Thirty minutes on a real production floor watching copper kettles, a sea of caramel becoming wrapped treats and cream centers getting coated, while a guide explains the history of chocolate and how this family has made it for generations. Three warm samples come with the tour. The reason it leads on convenience is that there is nothing to arrange: five start times a day, Monday to Friday, walk-ins welcome, passes bought online, no minimum and no lead time. WHEN Guided tours Monday to Friday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Thirty minutes each. No tours on weekends. Arrive at least 10 minutes before your tour time. COST The Chocolate Tasting Tour Pass is $7.00, which is the tour plus three samples. The hands-on VIP passes add an activity: The Great American Taffy Pull $11.50, Chocolate Teddy Bear Decorating $13.00, and Make Your Own Chocolate Bar or Cerreta's Chocolate Italian Pizza Making $16.00 each. Four people on the plain tour is $28, four on the taffy pull is $46, four making their own bars is $64. WHERE Cerreta Candy Company, 5345 W Glendale Ave, Glendale. Phone 623-930-9000. AGES No ages are printed for any of the passes. A production floor and a taffy hook hold an upper elementary kid easily, and the decorating passes are the ones that skew young. SIGNING UP Buy passes online, or just turn up: the page says walk-ins are welcome. No minimum group size is stated. For 10 or more the page recommends calling ahead to schedule, and a group leader who books 30 or more students gets a free VIP tour and a T-shirt. ALSO WORTH KNOWING Here is which one to buy. The $11.50 Great American Taffy Pull is the best hands-on value: they work the hook themselves, which is a real excuse to talk about pulling, folding and aerating a sugar mass. At $16 the chocolate bar and the chocolate pizza are fine but they are paying nine dollars over the tour price for a mold. Skip the $7 plain tour only if you want something to do with your hands, because the tour is included in the teddy bear and chocolate bar passes anyway. One caution: the themed VIP passes rotate, so the Halloween ones on the page now will be gone in November and the list you see may not match the list above. | | | ESA FAMILIES Two things worth knowing and one thing not worth guessing at. First, the rule people get wrong most often: if your child receives an ESA, do not file a homeschool affidavit. The Maricopa County School Superintendent's own homeschool page says so, and the statute behind it, A.R.S. 15-2402(B), requires every ESA parent to agree not to file an affidavit of intent to homeschool under section 15-802. Moving the other way, from an ESA to affidavit homeschooling, the affidavit is due within 30 days of withdrawing or of starting, it has to be notarized with proof of the child's identity, and the county does the notarizing free at an in-person appointment. Second, the Department of Education has still not published a 2026-27 ESA Parent Handbook. The file linked as current on its own site is the 2025-2026 edition, so that is the one in force. Third, the quarterly receipt deadline: azed.gov would not load today, and this page does not print dates it could not read off the department's own page. Check your ClassWallet portal or call the ESA Call Center at 602-364-1969. | | | Nothing in this issue needs a group, and here is the gate that is still out there Count it up, because it is a good week. The three ranger programs need a phone call or an email and no minimum. White Tank's homeschool day needs nothing in advance at all. The library seat and the arboretum workshop are individual registrations. The Arizona Museum of Natural History states no minimum group size, S'edav Va'aki states none and caps at 60, and Cerreta takes walk-ins. That is the entire page bookable by one family, which does not happen most weeks. The ten person gate is still waiting on nearly everything else, and it is worth knowing before you fall in love with a plan: Boyce Thompson's guided programs need 15 learners, and its Humans and Habitats session is written for grades 5 and 6 specifically, which makes it the single best reason on this page to belong to a group. Below 15 learners the arboretum charges a flat minimum of $135 guided or $107 self-guided, so a family of four pays roughly twice the gate price to book a field trip there. Walk up and pay admission instead, and save the field trip for a group. Across the Valley the usual minimums run from ten to twenty five at the aquariums, the zoo, the children's museums and the city nature programs, so the fix is belonging to one group rather than assembling a fresh ten every time something good opens. AFHE runs a free directory of Arizona homeschool support groups, about sixty listings statewide with roughly three dozen covering Maricopa County, filterable by county, area, emphasis and group type, and the whole thing is browsable without logging in or paying AFHE anything. Read their disclaimer too: they say they do not necessarily endorse groups listed on the site, that they do not have first-hand knowledge of all the groups or their leaders, and that each group is run independently and sets its own membership requirements, emphasis, format and dues. |  |
| | |  | | | 1 | Email Usery about archery tonight. Introduction to Archery is Saturday Nov 7, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the printed age floor is 10 and up, and the limit is 10 people. Registration is email only, to Ranger Nikki at nikki.bunnell@maricopa.gov with your phone number and the names of everyone coming, and it closes Nov 5. Park entry is $10 a vehicle and all the equipment is provided. |
| | | 2 | Put Oct 30 at 8 a.m. in your phone. That is when registration opens for STEAM Studio: Magnet Maze at White Tank Library, Friday Nov 13 at 2 p.m., free, ages 7 to 12. There are 16 seats a session and a second session on Nov 14, so 32 in total for the whole West Valley. Register for one, not both. |
| | | 3 | Clear Thursday Nov 5 for White Tank. Discovery Arizona Homeschool Day runs 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. with three ranger led workshops on rocks, indigenous tools and desert mammals, all for one $10 vehicle entry. No registration, but 20 people per time slot on a first come sign-up sheet, so take the 9:00 start and you can do all three before it ends. |
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