BaySide Stories

Join us the first Wednesday of every month for BaySide Stories! This program is open to the general public. Bring your little ones to the Save The Bay Center on the first Wednesday of the month from 3:30 - 4:30 to enjoy our story hour, see live animals and explore the shoreline with our environmental educators.

FREE for STB members • $4 per child (ages 3 and up) • 1 adult free with every child admission • $10 for a family of 4 or more. Walk-ins are welcome although reservations are preferred. Email education@savebay.org or call 401-272-3540, x133.

Author Emerson Colwell, Jr. reads from his book The Bay Gull.

BaySide Stories will focus on Bay-related themes each week, including but not limited to:

Theme 1: Twinkle Twinkle Little Sea Stars, Star of the Bay!
Theme 2: From Home to Home....(Hermit) Crabs that roam!
Theme 3: Fishy Day! Hide & Seek with Fish of the Bay!
Theme 4: Catch on with Crawly Crabs!
Theme 5: Seashells by the Seashore!
Theme 6: Look Low, Look High for Things that Fly!

FOR EARLY LEARNING CENTERS AND GROUPS

BaySide Stories can be an appropriate field trip for Early Childhood Learning Centers.  This hour and a half program includes various stations like story time, meeting with live critters, outdoor exploration, crafts and games. Kids discover a hands-on environment where stories come alive! You can pick your own BAY-theme!On a Fishy day, read Flossie Flounder, then see a real flounder in action. Environmentally-themed books coupled with live critters and shoreline exploration make BaySide stories a fun and enriching interaction.  Email rdatta@savebay.org or call 401-272-3540, x133

To book this program for your early child learning center,  Email rdatta@savebay.org or call 401-272-3540, x133

Program length: 1.5 hrs Ages 4-7 Pricing: $100 for 30 students; $5 for each additional student. Maximum of 60 students. We do not charge for chaperones. This special pricing is for a limited time! Transportation funding may be available.

PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH

At the Save The Bay Center -- a model of green architecture and energy efficiency -- we utilize our unique urban coastal location by offering a range of on-site programs to surrounding communities and schools. After surveying the rocky shore and salt marsh or collecting plankton at the dock, students analyze their findings in our labs, which makes learning more meaningful and longer lasting. In this living classroom, students gain a better understanding of the issues affecting Narragansett Bay, including the threats posed by climate change.

Our Shoreline Swap (preK - Adult)  involves a shoreline habitat exploration coupled with your choice of program (a classroom and/or shipboard program). In Green Tech to Clean Bay (ages 3-Adult), participants hear the Save The Bay Center’s restoration story and learn about its sustainable design, as well as ways these practices can be incorporated into other sites. 

PRICING:

• Shoreline Swap (without shipboard program): 2-3 hrs; $300 for 30 participants; $8 for each additional student
  
• Shoreline Swap (including shipboard): see our regular shipboard prices; $10 for each additional student
  
• Green Tech to Clean Bay: 1-1.5 hrs; $120 for 20 participants