SATURDAY’S ONGOING ACTIVITIES
Here’s what’s happening all day on Saturday, April 13 

 
OC Promenade
• Hands-on module train exhibit with OC Module Railroaders
• Brain Flakes – A creative and educational alternative to building blocks
• OC Fair photo booth – Grab a prop and smile big for your free OC Fair photo souvenir (ocfair.com/fair)
• Corn hole with Raising Cane’s
• Scavenger Hunt – Explore the grounds, complete fun activities and receive a prize for your hard work

Action Gallery South
• Woodworking 101 with OC Scroll Saw Association (ocssa.us)
• Creative Crafting – Create anything from an insect to a bracelet
• Sew Easy – Learn the basics to make a plush cow
• Sun Prints – Use the power of the sun to make photographs
• Tech Play – Interactive LED installation, Elenco Snap Circuit, Makey Makey
• Augmented Reality Sandbox – Create in real time
• IKEA Build-A-Chair – See how fast you can assemble a chair
• Clay Play with OC School of the Arts (ocsarts.net); clay donated by Aardvark Clay (aardvarkclay.com)
• Marker Watercolor with Pop Up Studios (popupstudiosoc.com)
• Mini art lessons with Art Steps (artstepsclasses.com)

Action Gallery North
• Reptile Zoo – Hands-on interaction with a variety of reptiles

Livestock Area
• 4-H/FFA livestock animals on display 
• AIAA OC Rocketry – Build and launch a paper rocket

The Hangar
• Aerospace Adventure – Laptop flight simulators, flying demos, make and fly paper gliders (presented by Harbor Soaring Society & Civil Air Patrol)
• Wild Science – Take an excursion into the wild and amazing world of science through dozens of highly interactive, fun and visually captivating displays and activities, including life-size games and puzzles (presented by IG Presents)

Main Mall
• Model A Ford car exhibit
• YMCA crafts and games
• Make a mini steampunk hat
• Face painting with AMO Marketing

Vital Link
• Interactive industry, nonprofits and education exhibits and demos
• Drone flight demonstrations with Autonomy Foundation

Vital Link North
• Bytes and Bots Labs workshops – Track I – Codologie: Raspberry Pi Track II – Buildologie: Robotics and Automation

eSports Playground
• eSports Training – Learn how to train like the pros with Esport Management
• Coding workshops – Learn coding fundamentals (Microsoft, Coder School and Code Ninjas)
• For parents only – Learn how to discover and choose which games offer educational content
• Twitch.tv and Friends – Meet esports pros and learn how they got their start
• LEGO Minecraft Biome City Build with Play-Well TEKnowledgies
• Xbox and PC free play featuring educational games
• Kids Can Cosplay demo – Learn how to create a superhero costume during daily 1-hour demos (kidscancosplay.org)

Country Meadows
• Fort Blisters Boot Camp – Earn your stripes on this fun, challenging obstacle course (presented by Heroes Hall)
• Amazing Maze – Find your way through!
• Physical Physics – Use S.T.E.A.M. to power physical movement
• Fishing in the City – Try your hand at casting a line (presented by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife)
• Dig for roots – Harvest and plant root vegetables
• Radish seed planting – Plant a radish to take home and grow (presented by the City of Costa Mesa)
• Potato sack races – Race against your family to see who wins (presented by the City of Costa Mesa)
• Make seed balls (presented by the City of Costa Mesa)
• City of Costa Mesa exhibit – Learn what recreation activities are available
• Interactive butterfly exhibit (presented by SkyRiver Butterflies)

Centennial Farm
• Farm animals on display – Tour the 3-acre working farm to see animals and crops
• Blacksmith demo – Watch Christian the Blacksmith work his magic
• OC Beekeepers – Learn about backyard beekeeping
• Touch Table – Use your senses to explore the garden
• Cow milking (Millennium Barn) – Practice milking Maxine the demo cow
• Ox demo (Millennium Barn) – See how these creatures work (closed 12:30-1:30 p.m.)
• UCCE Master Gardeners exhibit (Millennium Barn)
• Great Egg-Scape (Silo Building) – Watch chicks hatch from eggs
• Kruse Feed and Supply exhibit (Silo Building)
• CA Rare Fruit Growers workshop
• Leather workshop (some projects will require a materials fee) (The Farmhouse)

Heroes Hall
• Veterans exhibit – Victory From Within: The American Prisoner of War Experience

Nino Village
Dia del Nino Village workshops will include:
• Circus Workshop: Fern Street Circus is back by popular demand with their unique workshop that leads children of all ages through tumbling, juggling, tightwire and clowning in a portable circus ring.
• Stencils and Textiles of the Americas: Timoi will lead activities in painting modern textiles of the Americas, and stencil painting ruins of the Americas. 
• International Beading: Janet Adams from Southern California Artists will conduct workshops on Huichol Indian beading and paper making.
• Peace Dove: Maria Reyna from Arte por Vida will show children how to use a mix of media, pencil, oil pastels, watercolors to create an original work of art while they will learn about the Nahua culture from Mexico.
• Bubblefun: Israel Barrios will explore the science and history of bubbles with an imaginative workshop that offers the chance to be inside a bubble, blow big bubbles and seeing the effects of dry ice in soapy water.
• Clay Building: Manuel Cortez from Creative Dynamics will lead a workshop making clay turtles that will teach listening, following instructions, building fine motor skills and finding inner peace.
• Little Book of Dreamers: Yenny Bernal from Uplifting Soul Art Events will guide children through scrapbooking techniques and making a beautiful recycled journal.
• Migration in the Americas: Kimberly Duran from The Heavy Collective will celebrate diversity in cultures and ethnicity by creating an artistic butterflies.
• Cumbia Kids: Moises Vazquez’s workshop invites children of all skill levels to learn Cumbia and other Latin grooves using various instruments in a drum circle setting. 
• Children’s Mural Workshop: Francisco Ordoñez from Media Arts Santa Ana returns with his popular mural painting activity, allowing kids to participate in a large scale art piece, exploring color and imagery.
• Ojos de Dios/God’s Eye Workshop and Friendship Bracelets: Marisol Cardenas will conduct a workshop evoking the weaving motif and its spiritual associations for the Huichol and Tepehuan Indians of western Mexico. 
• La Loteria History and Symbol: Adriana Martinez will share the history of the colorful Mexican loteria game, showing kids how to use watercolor, painting, drawing, and composition skills to create their own loteria-inspired cards.
• Dance Party: Hiba Shublak and instructors from Active Learning will provide dance, hip hop and pop exercises, warm ups, stretches and creative movement activities. 
• Stop Motion Animation: Jesus Mora from the Orange County Children’s Therapeutic Arts Center will conduct a workshop that will explore storytelling through drawing, writing, character design and stop-motion animation.
• Recreational Flamenco: Claudia de la Cruz will introduce the art of flamenco dance to participants in a fun way, exploring basics such as zapateado (footwork), braceo (arm form), floreo (hand movements) and palmas (hand clapping).
• Coloring with the Community: Dino Perez will have some of his imaginative designs on hand to teach color theory, color harmonies and patterns. 
• Button Making and Magnets: Maria Elena Cruz from Dial Art will engage children in mixed media art to make wearable buttons and magnets with empowering words, quotes and images.
• Art of Puppetry: Jeremy Hohn from Rogue Artists Ensemble will lead a workshop in which children will create and take home their very own Cardboard Box Rod puppet.

SATURDAY’S SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES  
Here’s what’s happening and when on Saturday, April 13

 
8:30 a.m. 4-H/FFA Large Livestock Showmanship and Progress (until 3 p.m.) (Livestock Area)

9 a.m. 4-H Rabbit Show/Showmanship and 4-H Cavy Showmanship (Livestock Area / Small Tent)
9 a.m. Dog Show (until 2 p.m.) (Livestock Area)
9 a.m. 4-H Dog Show/Obedience/Showmanship/Agility (until 3 p.m.) (Campground)

10 a.m.  4-H presentations and performances (until 3 p.m.) (Action Gallery North)
10 a.m. RobotOC build & Competition (until 4 p.m.) (Vital Link)
10 a.m. Scarecrow Competition (judging at noon) – Build a traditional scarecrow or S.T.E.A.M. it up with some techie additions. Pre-registration online required. One team member must be pre-k to 12th grade (Main Mall)
10 a.m. Rhythmo Mariachi Kids performance – Anaheim’s Rhythmo Mariachi Kids perform the most popular songs of the mariachi repertoire (mariachikids.com) (Plaza Pacifica)

10:20 a.m. Ballet Folklorico Fraternidad de Bolivia performance – Ballet Folklorico Fraternidad De Bolivia performs folkloric dances from different regions of Bolivia (fb.me/balletfolkloricofraternidaddebolivia) (Plaza Pacifica)

10:30 a.m.  Milking demonstration (Millennium Barn)
10:30 a.m. Sadie’s Farm-tastic Adventure – Celebrate farming with Sadie the Balloon Lady! Sadie’s Farm-Tastic Adventure is a rollicking, knee-slapping, toe tapping 30 minutes of fun (Country Meadows)
10:30 a.m. Registration begins for the free aerial arts class (OC Promenade)
10:30 a.m. Plant Terrarium (until 1:30 p.m. or while supplies last) (Centennial Farm)

10:45 a.m. International Peace Choir performance – The youth musical ambassadors will sing, dance and share spoken word bringing a message of peace, representing different countries of the world (internationalpeacechoir.org) (Plaza Pacifica)

11 a.m. 94 Logic, teen community band, performance (Main Mall Stage)
11 a.m. Horse vaulting barrel demo (OC Promenade)
11 a.m. Art the Photo Trainer demonstration (Action Gallery South)
11 a.m. Sheep shearing (until 3 p.m.) (Centennial Farm)
11 a.m. Minecraft STEM Build-Off (eSports Playground)

11:10 a.m. Emily performance – Mexican folkloric singer from Santa Ana who loves to share her culture (emilybbofficial.wixsite.com/emilybbofficial) (Plaza Pacifica)

11:15 a.m. Circus Aerial Arts free trial session (OC Promenade)

11:30 a.m. Mojinganga de Ozxaca performance – Club Oaxaca USA’s Mojiganga or “Calenda” is a festive parade that celebrates the beginning of a good event. This one will have “Marmotas,” giant balls that are twisted by the dancers, with paper maché animals and girl dancers with baskets. (fb.me/clubmigrantesnochixtecosusa) (Plaza Pacifica)
11:30 a.m. Wild Science’s Animal Discovery Show (The Hangar)

11:50 a.m. Nathalia performance – Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, Nathalia’s unique bilingual approach to songwriting has made her a prominent voice in the world of children’s music (nathaliamusic.com) (Plaza Pacifica)

12 p.m. Powerhouse performance – Powerhouse combines innovative tap, precision clogging, and explosive stomp for an electrifying dance experience. Uniquely American, it has all the power, excitement and style of America’s best music and dance. (Main Mall Stage)
12 p.m. Academic Chess Tournament (Baja Blues)
12 p.m. Horsemanship demonstration (Livestock Area)
12 p.m. Make your own video game with Microsoft MakeCode (eSports Playground)

12:15 p.m. Circus Aerial Arts free trial session (OC Promenade)
12:15 p.m. Horse vaulting demonstrations – Gymnastics on horseback (Livestock Area)

12:30 p.m. Sadie’s Farm-tastic Adventure – Celebrate farming with Sadie the Balloon Lady! Sadie’s Farm-Tastic Adventure is a rollicking, knee-slapping, toe tapping 30 minutes of fun (Country Meadows)
12:30 p.m.  Wild Science’s Mix Up Science Show (The Hangar)

12:40 p.m. Trishala Parthasarathi performance – Dancer Trishala Parthasarathi performs Bharatanatyam, a South Indian classical dance form that originated thousands of years ago (Plaza Pacifica)

1 p.m. Jewell Chang performance (Main Mall Stage)
1 p.m. Kids Can Cosplay: Intro workshop – Kids of all ages will learn techniques to bring their favorite fictional character costumes into real life (Action Gallery South)
1 p.m. Music of the Ancient Americas performance – Native music of North, Central and South America from Martin Espino (martinespino.com) (Plaza Pacifica)
1 p.m. Aerial Arts Show (OC Promenade)
1 p.m. Parent Panel: Career Opportunities in eSports (also 1:15 p.m.) (eSports Playground)

1:20 p.m. Danza del Jaguar performance – A traditional dance from the state of Puebla, Mexico, it is a storytelling dance of two tribes in a hunting trip searching for the Jaguar. The dancers dress as the characters they play in the story. (fb.me/tecuaneslosangeles) (Plaza Pacifica)

1:30 p.m.  Wild Science’s Animal Discovery Show (The Hangar)

1:40 p.m. Estudiantina Angeles de California performance – Estudiantina Angeles de California is a youth musical group that plays a variety of traditional Mexican and Spanish ballads and songs, dressed in the costume of renaissance troubadours (fb.me/estudiantinaangelesdecal) (Plaza Pacifica)
1:40 p.m. Why Oh Why Books Workshop (Action Gallery South)

2 p.m. Circus Aerial Arts free trial session (OC Promenade)
2 p.m. Powerhouse performance – Powerhouse combines innovative tap, precision clogging, and explosive stomp for an electrifying dance experience. Uniquely American, it has all the power, excitement and style of America’s best music and dance. (Main Mall Stage)
2 p.m. Horse vaulting barrel demonstration (Livestock Area)

2:05 p.m. Trio Ellas performance (Plaza Pacifica)

2:30 p.m.  Milking demonstration (Millennium Barn)
2:30 p.m. Sadie’s Farm-tastic Adventure – Celebrate farming with Sadie the Balloon Lady! Sadie’s Farm-Tastic Adventure is a rollicking, knee-slapping, toe tapping 30 minutes of fun (Country Meadows)
2:30 p.m. Wild Science’s Mix Up Science Show (The Hangar)
2:30 p.m. Hour of Code with Minecraft & Minecraft Battle Royale (eSports Playground)

2:45 p.m.  Horsemanship demonstration (Livestock Area)

2:55 p.m. Rogue Artists Ensemble Puppetry – Performance that utilizes various types of puppetry including Bunraku, Hand, Rod and more (rogueartists.org) (Plaza Pacifica)

3 p.m. Circus Aerial Arts free trial session (OC Promenade)
3 p.m. Tupua Keikis performance – Youth Polynesian dancers (Main Mall Stage)
3 p.m. Horse vaulting demonstrations – Gymnastics on horseback (Livestock Area)

3:20 p.m. Twinkle Time performance – Award-winning Peruvian-American bilingual kindie music phenomenon presents her pop/rock/hip hop concert (twinkleandfriends.com) (Plaza Pacifica)

3:55 p.m. Aerial Arts Show (OC Promenade)

4 p.m. Powerhouse performance – Powerhouse combines innovative tap, precision clogging, and explosive stomp for an electrifying dance experience. Uniquely American, it has all the power, excitement and style of America’s best music and dance. (Main Mall Stage)
4 p.m. RobotOC Awards Ceremony (Vital Link North)

4:10 p.m. Claudia de la Cruz Flamenco performance – Dancers will take you on a trip to different regions and rhythms of Andalucía (tierra-flamenca.com) (Plaza Pacifica)

4:35 p.m. Ballet Folklorico Pilares de Mexico performance – Students from Pilares de Mexico and the Sol Academy elementary school will perform dances from different states of Mexico (actaonline.org/content/ballet-folklorico-pilares-de-mexico) (Plaza Pacifica)