Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration

“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.