The Art Walk showcases the works of talented professional and student artists in restaurants and businesses in downtown Skokie. Live activities held noon-5 p.m. May 18. Visitors are invited to pick up an Art Walk map; meet the artists; listen to roaming musicians; enjoy plein air artists paint outdoors; hear jazz musicians play in Memorial Park; and attend Open Mic Performances at Gorilla Tango/Skokie Theatre. Kids 3-16 can create their own art at three locations: Bughouse Studio, Lincoln Terrace Art Studio & Gallery and Mosaic Montessori/Early Childhood.

Discover what fish live at The Morton Arboretum and paint with water colors.

New exhibit showcases 50 rare and unique objects from the Sterling Morton Library's collections. The artifacts include a collection of butterflies that is more than 100 years old, an Eskimo bone carving, original woodblocks, and metal sculptures. Explore a modern cabinet of curiosities, with drawers that pull out and doors that open to reveal objects and interactive games, share your vision of a library in 50 years, and take part in a library-wide scavenger hunt.

Kids become bug detectives as they explore the exhibit of huge bug sculptures built using natural materials including trees, dried branches, roots and green saplings. On display will be an over-sized bee hive, lady bug, assassin bug, damsel fly, spider, daddy long legs, praying mantis, dragon fly, grasshopper and three ants. Kids receive a free bug detective guide, helping them uncover the truth about bugs. Plus, they can take part in daily events to learn more about bugs, plus an edible insects program for the whole family.

Enter a tree house village filled with adventure and imagination. Play, make believe, and become part of the trees' ever-changing tale. The exhibition is comprised of six fun-filled, educational tree houses, aimed at kids 2-10.

The Model Railroad Garden delights visitors of all ages with the sights and sounds of garden-scale trains traversing bridges and trestles, past miniature scenes of America's best-loved landmarks and beautiful gardens planted to scale.

Travel back in time and find out what it was like to grow up on a farm in the 1920's. Boys and girls will take part in a variety of fun farm chores, from tending animals to weeding the kitchen garden. Chore boots and gloves are provided. April 24, May 9, May 22.

Visit the milking parlor at Wagner Farm to see how milk is taken from the cow to the dinner table. Learn how people have used dairy products throughout time and even make ice cream to enjoy. Advance registration is required. April 19, May 23.

Features supersized animatronic dinosaurs, including favorites like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, as well as obscure dinosaur species with unusual characteristics, like feathers. Shantungosaurus-the largest dinosaur to walk on two legs-stands at more than 20 feet tall and 50 feet long in Roosevelt Fountain, and a tented showcase highlights the most recent paleontological findings that birds evolved from dinosaurs. In addition, guests will learn how dinosaurs are relevant to today's world and how changes in climate may have led to their extinction, plus about prehistoric flowers and plants .

Cruise offers 90-minutes of fun as kids participate in hands-on experiments to test the lake and river waters; learn how a boat floats; discover how skyscrapers stand up to gravity; see what it takes to lift and lower one of Chicago's famous bridges; and take a look at some migrating slimy creatures with Chicago on their radar. Following the scientific method, each question is followed by children offering up their hypotheses and then performing the experiment.