Search for gnomes in the Children's Garden using your best "I Spy" skills. Checklist provided.

Learn how creatures cope with the cold, as well as how we mimic their behavior to survive the cold weather ourselves. Program includes an outdoor hike. Dress for the weather.

Meet "Cora," The Grove's resident skunk and discover the world of skunks through a story, crafts and a short trail walk. Advance registration required.

Snowflake "Learn to Skate" Clinics are an introduction to Rink Side's learn to skate classes. They are open to any child ages 2-11, there will be 30 minutes of instruction and 15 minutes of free time. There is a public session following the clinic and everyone can stay to skate! (Regular admission fees apply.) Sessions are held Dec. 26-29, 31, Jan. 2-5.

Drop off your kids for a little school's-out fun, including games and movies. Please send a sack lunch and snack for your child.

Interactive learning centers include a barn slide, apple orchard and chicken coop. Maggie, a life-sized fiberglass milking cow sponsored by Golden Oaks Farm in Wauconda, will be the focus of the new exhibit. Maggie is over five feet tall and features a working udder that recirculates the water that children "milk."