Children's Water Festival

Update on the Children’s Water Festival 2020

The City of Greater Sudbury continues to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and is taking steps to help prevent the spread of infection in our community.

We have therefore made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 water festival. We will continue to examine options for sharing knowledge about water with our local youth.

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The Sudbury Children’s Water Festival is a free fun and educational event for students in grade 3 to learn about the importance of water in their daily lives. It features activity stations based around different water themes such as conservation, protection, science and technology.

The festival takes place at Anderson Farm Museum located at 550 Regional Rd 24, Lively on September 18 and 19, 2019.

Each year, over 700 grade 3 students participate in the Water Festival over the course of the two days.

The Sudbury Children’s Water Festival relies extensively on volunteer and financial support from the community. 

How the festival works

The festival is outdoors and will be held rain or shine.

Groups of approximately ten students per teacher or supervisor, will move from booth to booth, seeing about 18 booths during their visit.

Every ten minutes a buzzer will sound and the group will move from one station to the next, following their map and itinerary.

A large canopy tent will be set up for students to have lunch under. Students, teachers and chaperones must provide their own lunches and are strongly encouraged to pack a litterless lunch.

Bathrooms breaks should be done during the break period or lunch.

What to bring

• Weather-appropriate clothing
• Lunch and a reusable water bottle
• Name tags for each student, teacher and adult supervisor
• Class list
• Site maps and scheduler for each supervisor

Additional Materials

What the water gave us, by Chloé LaDuchesse, Greater Sudbury Poet Laureate 2018 (PDF 233 KB)

We greatly appreciate the contribution from Chloé LaDuchesse to the 2018 Children’s Water Festival. As Greater Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Chloe wrote this poem which may help us think of what water brings to our lives and to remind us to enjoy our 330 lakes in a respectful way.

Contact Us

For more information contact:

City of Greater Sudbury
Environmental Planning Initiatives
200, Brady Street
PO Box 5000, STN A
Sudbury, Ontario
P3A 5P3              
earthcare@greatersudbury.ca