Stroll the streets of downtown Plainfield for special family events throughout the day. Hope the Bunny Trail from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., enjoy breakfast or lunch with the bunny, or visit the face painters and balloon artists.

Kids have a delicious breakfast that mom or dad doesn't have to cook. While spending family time together, the Easter Bunny visits with each table. Tickets on sale March 17. Register online or call (630) 968-0074.

Introduce kids to all the colors this mystical nature show exhibits. Make a rainbow bracelet to take home.

Play with tools that measure wind and other types of weather and unearth how these tools help us.

The new Railway Garden, a G-gauge model railway running through a 2.5 acre site, opens April 30. Visitors enter through a 1920s-era railway depot to see trains running through a garden of miniature plants, water features and a variety of landscapes. May 1 through October.

Sugar in the sugar bowl comes from sugar cane or sugar beets. But what about honey, molasses, raisins or maple syrup? Learn more about all kinds of sugar.

Meet the chickens and ducks, find out how baby birds develop, and collect colorful eggs from rare-breed chickens. Using natural dyes, each family will color eggs to bring home. Dress to be outside on the farm. Please register for each family member age 3 and up.

Begin with an indoor interactive presentation on the habitats of Glacial Park and how they have changed over the years, then take part in a restoration project by cutting down invasive buckthorn. Please wear closed-toed shoes and pants. Tools, safety glasses and gloves provided.

Learn about the sun, our nearest star, and view the sun through a properly filtered telescope under the supervision of the staff astronomer (clear skies permitting). If weather is inclement, a slide/lecture program will be presented. Register by April 5.

Navy Pier's Family Pavilion is transformed into a town filled with numerous interactive characters, live music, games and more. Watch Mother Goose and her friends act out our favorite stories, take family photos with Bonny Bunny (through April 8), and listen to The Chicken or the Egg Orchestra.