Event Location Update: Event will now take place at Watch Tower Lodge at Black Hawk Park (not at Singing Bird.)

Explore ways to be healthy in mind, body and spirit at the Winter Wellness Family Event at Watch Tower Lodge at Black Hawk Park in Rock Island, IL.

Activities will be set up inside Watch Tower Lodge. Visit a variety of interactive stations where you can learn about the environment, reducing food waste, and how to make your own green cleaning products. Dive into the importance of nutrition and heart health with Illinois Extension resources. Get blood pressure and glucose checks and health information from the Community Health Care.

Enjoy a free cup of soup and hot cocoa and sit by the fire. Learn about birds at a bird beak activity station. Spend time crafting! We'll have canvases, bird-house gourds, and rocks to paint and decorate. Visit our selfie station to capture fun memories on your own phone or camera.

Youth will enjoy "I Made That!" activity packets, interactive stations, and a fun indoor obstacle course by 4-H, Mercer County Ag Literacy, All Our Kids Early Childhood Network, and the Rock Island Public Library, which will also have their bookmobile at the event.

Dress for the weather and do our outdoor soup scavenger hunt! Participants have a chance to win all of the ingredients to make a delicious vegetable soup to take and make at home. Pick up a Scavenger Hunt Map, follow the clues, and bring back your completed sheet for a chance to win one a soup kit!

We look forward to seeing you at the free event on Saturday, February 25 from 10 am - 1 pm at Watch Tower Lodge, Black Hawk State Historic Site, 1510 46th Ave, in Rock Island, IL.