Each year more than a billion people celebrate Earth Day by learning how to protect the planet from things like pollution and deforestation. Toledo’s science center invites everyone to get involved and help reduce the strain on Earth’s limited resources. Recycling Day Saturday, April 15 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Start cleaning out your attics, basements and garages. It’s time to get those hard-to-recycle- items, recycled.
In partnership with the City of Toledo, Imagination Station will serve as the first drop off point for the Clean Toledo Drop-Off Refuse and Recycling event of the season. Bring your TVs, tires (up to 10), cardboard, styrofoam and more to the science center and we’ll take care of the rest—you don’t even have to get out of your car.
Earth Week April 18-22
Free with Admission
More than 50 million tons of electronics are discarded every year. They are filled with mechanisms, circuitry, wires and more that can be recycled, but oftentimes these items end up in landfills.
Join us as we make an effort to make a difference. Bring in old toys and small electronics and tear them apart in the name of science and sustainability. Sort the bits and pieces and properly recycle them. It’s a great way for the whole family to learn how to use common hand tools and the value of proper recycling.
Meet and Greet with Ms. Frizzle and Blippi Saturday, April 22
Visit imaginationstation toledo.org for more information.
Tinkering Space Activity Trashformations Free with Admission
Instead of throwing plastic grocery bags away, turn them into something cool, useful and precious. Make plastic fabric by melting plastic bags together with a common household iron. Once you’ve forged your plastic fabric, use sewing machines, hot glue guns and other tools to make truly remarkable creations.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Thursday, April 20 7 p.m. KeyBank Discovery Theater Bueller…Bueller… One fake sick day sends high school senior Ferris Bueller, his girlfriend and his best friend, Cameron, on an adventure of a lifetime. Explore the Science of Guinness World Records, grab a frosty science-themed snack and enjoy this 80s classic on a giant screen. As Ferris says, “life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Doors open at 6 p.m. A cash bar is available for guests age 21 and up. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.
Family Explorers Club: Weather Saturday, April 22 11 a.m. to noon
The world is an amazing place, and the Family Explorers Club invites little explorers and their grown-ups to learn all about it together. This free program is for families of children ages three to five and encourages young scientists and their family lab assistants to explore and discover the world around them through science, technology, engineering, art and math programming designed to spark curiosity and ignite imaginations.
Early Childhood Programming is made possible by a grant from PNC Grow Up Great, a grant from the Principle Donor Directed Pooled Fund of the Greater Toledo Community Foundation and a gift from the KeyBank National Association Trustee for the Nellie Bash Charities Trust Fund in partnership with Read for Literacy.
Last Chance Guinness Final day to Be Amazing
Sunday, April 23 Free with admission
For the first time ever, we’re looking into the science behind mesmerizing accomplishments with the Science of Guinness World Records, an interactive exhibition that will take you behind the scenes to see what it takes to “Achieve Amazing.”
Membership Swap: Yankee Air Museum
April 1-30 Members only
Imagination Station is swapping memberships with our friends at the Yankee Air Museum.
Located in Belleville, Michigan—southwest of Detroit— the museum gives families a chance to touch and interact with some of the most amazing aircrafts throughout aviation history.
There is something for the entire family. During the month of April, show your Imagination Station membership card for admission.
