Spring Lake Nature Center: From Living Thing to Fossil

Name: Spring Lake Nature Center: From Living Thing to Fossil
Start: 2026-03-18T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-18T11:30:00-05:00
Location: 5906 2nd ave w Williston, nd 58801

Schedule

Wed Mar 18 2026 at 10:00 am to 11:30 am

UTC-05:00

Location

5906 2nd ave w Williston, nd 58801 | Williston, ND

Limited Seating Available!!! Reserve your spot now and Travel through deep time and discover how fossils are formed in From Living Thing to Fossil, a one-hour hands-on program for kids ages 6–10. Participants will learn what fossils are, why fossilization is rare, and the special conditions needed to preserve ancient life. After a short interactive lesson, kids will become paleontologists in a Fossil Casting Lab, creating their own plaster fossil casts from real molds and then painting them as realistically as possible. Along the way, they’ll explore molds, casts, and impressions, and learn how minerals slowly replace living material over time. This creative, science-based program helps kids understand that fossils don’t form all at once—they are copies of life shaped by time, pressure, and the environment.