The Highline Heritage Museum will host a Sloth Day Festival on Saturday, Oct. 18, from Noon to 5 p.m., featuring family-friendly activities, themed presentations and community partners, the museum announced.
This free, family-friendly event is meant to celebrate the region’s own Ice Age Megalonyx – aka “Giant Sloth” – discovered in 1961 under Sea‑Tac Airport.
Children’s activities will take place from Noon to 3 p.m., including nap pods, face painting, art projects, a sloth crawl where contestants move as slowly as possible, and sloth tea and cider.
Presentations begin at 1 p.m. with Sloth Tai Chi led by Wise Orchid Taihiqua and Qigong, followed by a real sloth facts presentation at 2 p.m.
At 3 p.m., the Burke Museum will present a video on the Megalonyx with a paleontologist-led discussion.
The day concludes at 4 p.m. with a Sea-Tac Airport Megalonyx presentation on excavation work done at the airport.
The event is scheduled at the Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street in Burien (map below).
More information is available at highlinemuseum.org or by calling 206-402-4029.
