Take-Your-Mom-Hiking: Mother's Day Art Hike at McDowell Nature Preserve
For this event, our activities will be centered around honoring moms or motherly figures in your life. Celebrate your mom and bring her to the woods on a rmeaningful art hike. Come enjoy forest bathing and an art meditation in your Charlotte backyard! For this adventure - we are headed to McDowell Nature Preserve. Libba Moore will be leading a forest bathing portion along the hike and Ida Mae will led us through art meditation that folks document in their nature journal.
Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.
WHAT TO BRING/EXPECT:
- An hour long guided hike.
- Bring a journal and writing, drawing materials (we will have some too).
- Flat, mostly smooth, trail (very little elevation gain and some roots)
- Forest bathing mediation activities
- At the end of the hike, Ida Mae will lead an art class related to our forest bathing meditation! Bring your creative spirit, good vibes, and a water bottle!
AGENDA
4:00-4:45 - Checking in!
4:45-5:45 - Forest Bathing Hike
5:45 - 7:00 - Meditative Art Journal Activity
The goal is to have a transformational experience as a community in the woods and connect with the forest system.
*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.
Organization:
McDowell Nature CenterLocation:
15222 South York Road
Charlotte, NC, 28278United States
See map: Google Maps
Phone:
(980) 314-1128Contact name:
S. Dees
Email address:
Dates:
05/11/2025
Time:
4 pm
Price:
See website for details
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