“Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration” free children’s activities at City of Tucson’s Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free

Photo of children making their own stone-and-cordage jewelry at a previous Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration

This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center program, sponsored by Vista del Rio Residents’ Association, features hands-on activities, demonstrations, and informational materials along the trails through Tucson’s Vista del Rio Cultural Park, where part of an ancient Hohokam Indian village is preserved, to educate children, especially ages 6 to 12, about the ancient people who lived at Vista del Rio and elsewhere in southern Arizona. Activities along the trails through the park include demonstrations of traditional Native American pottery-making and arrowhead-making, grinding your own corn using an ancient metate and mano, learning to play traditional Native American games, rabbit-throwing-stick target practice, and making hand-built pottery, cordage and stone-and-bead jewelry, split-twig-figurines, and dance rattles that you can take home.

No reservations needed. For more information contact Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.