The “All Species” parade is only one of a large number of activities for kids at the St. Louis Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 22. 

The theme of the 2001 Earth Day celebration is “Our Waters, Our Rivers.” 

Last month, Young Saint Louis.com previewed another of the Sunday Festival events for kids. An Earth Day Boat Regatta story included information on how to get recycled material to make your regatta boat. 

(You can review that article by clicking on archives on the home page and calling up the February, 2001, edition.)

Other kids events at the Sunday Festival in Forest Park include: 

• Shark petting and other hands-on water exploration activities.
• Native American storytelling. 
• Free tree seedlings for planting will be given away.
• Bi-State bus painting. 
• World Bird Sanctuary shows. 
• Cleanup of the Forest Park river system. 

One of the scenes from last year's kids parade

In addition, you can participate in Earth Day service projects. They include: 

• Stream Team projects where groups adopt a stream and agree to pick up trash. There are over 1,700 Stream Teams in Missouri. This is under the direction of the Missouri Department of Conservation. For information, call (573) 751-4115, Ext. 3166. 

• Assisting with wetland restoration on Saturday, April 21. For information, call Green Center in University City at (314) 725-8314. 

• Stenciling storm drain sewers to remind people to keep our storm water pollution-free. For information, call Resource Recovery Project at (314) 481-8770 or the Metropolitan Sewer District at (314) 768-6340.