You’re invited to a day of conservation and family fun at the Chickasaw Cultural Center Saturday, Sept. 12! Learn how you can help ensure the survival of the monarch butterfly for generations to come. 

Enjoy these activities from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Butterfly tent
• Children’s activities and crafts
• Educational booths, films and retail discounts
• Native plants and painted lady caterpillar giveaways

Event Agenda:

10:30 a.m. – “Behind the Scenes” – Anoli' Theater

11 a.m. – Stomp Dance – Traditional Village

11:30 a.m. – “First Encounter” – Anoli' Theater

1 p.m. – “Flight of the Butterflies”– Anoli' Theater

2 p.m. – Stomp Dance – Village

3:30 p.m. – Butterfly shorts – Anoli' Theater

6:30 p.m. – “Michael”

Aaittafama' Lobby

• Face painting
• Airbrush tattoos
• Photo opportunity
  
  

Butterfly Garden

• Okies for Monarchs
  
  

Bus Pavillion

• Monarch scavenger hunt
• Sidewalk chalk and sitting area
  
  

Café

• Pollinator salad
• Special cookie
  
  

Exhibit Hall Lobby

• Temporary tattoos
• Retail – seed disc giveaway, butterfly merchandise and Monarch Butterfly Day T-shirts for sale
  
  

Holisso

• Cooling off and resting station
• Kids coloring sheets and reading area
• Photo opportunity
  
  

Holisso Front Porch

• Monarch watch
• Texas Native Plant Society
• Murray State College Urban and Small Farm Hub
  
  

Monarch Hoop House

• Build your own butterfly garden plant give away
  
  

Plaza

• Lucile’s Pollinator Project and 4-H STEM Innovators – seed bombs and coloring sheets
• Chickasaw Nation Environmental Services
• National Park Service – kids’ activity
• Master Gardeners – caterpillar craft
• Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge
  
  

Theater Overflow

• Euchee Butterfly Farm – butterfly tent
• Tribal Alliance for Pollinators – Painted Lady caterpillar kit giveaway
  
  

Traditional Village

• Cultural demonstrations
• Kids’ zone
• Pollinator free throw
• Chickasaw Nation Office of Natural Resources
• OKC Zoo
• Blue Thumb
• The Nature Conservancy

Welcome Center Porch

• Signature event bag giveaways
• Floor mazes
• Butterfly scratch-off craft