No, there won’t be any dinosaur bones at Dinosaur Day, noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 21 at the Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country, 4831 FM 2673, Canyon Lake.
But the “amazing educational event for kids and dinosaur lovers of all ages” features a presentation by the Witte Museum’s top paleontologist, fun interaction with members of Texas State University’s Geology Club, table activities overseen by retired teachers, walking tours of the museum’s 350 dinosaur footprints and 20 separate trackways, free books, fossil giveaways, raffle, silent auction, food trucks and home-baked dinosaur cookies.
Tickets are $5 per person and will be sold at the event.
The 26-year-old Heritage museum works to protect dinosaur footprints and trackways made 110 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period in the upper Glen Rose Formation.
Kathy Ferguson, a board member who oversaw festivities for the museum’s 25th anniversary last year, said Dinosaur Day is a signature event with an over 20-year history.
The board knows how much it takes to engage five-year-olds who arrive already prepared to rattle off the names of every dinosaur that ever existed, and six-year-olds who could lead Fossil Ridge tours themselves.
Saturday, kids will be allowed to keep any fossils they find, scattered around by experts like Thomas Adams, PhD, chief curator of Paleontology and Geology at the Witte Museum in San Antonio.