Grey Bruce Children's Water Festival

05/24/2026

A couple interviews with a few of this year's guests & volunteers! 🎤

I had the privilege of welcoming my oldest nephew to the GBCWF this year, which was an overwhelmingly happy, full-circle moment. It took me half the day to get my emotions in check. As a coordinator here, this is my why!
It is amazing that this hands-on, fun & educational event is here for all our local youth 🎉

05/23/2026

Today we recognize and the important role that conservation authorities play in protecting our natural environment. 🐢

This is a busy time for wildlife. Please slow down and watch for turtles and other animals crossing roadways.

Turtle nesting season is fast approaching! Become at Turtle Stewardship Volunteer and help us support local turtle populations through data collection, nest protection, hatchling monitoring, and public education. Learn more: www.greysauble.on.ca/turtle-stewardship-program

If you see a turtle nesting, report your sighting to: [email protected]

If you find an injured or deceased turtle, contact the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre at 705-741-5000 or the S.T.A.R.T. hotline at 705-955-4284.

Funding for the Turtle Stewardship Program in 2026 was generously provided by the Ontario Greenbelt, Community Foundation Grey Bruce, and Intersections Wood Collaborative.

05/23/2026

As promised we put all our attendee's names into a draw for our custom 300pc Water Cycle Puzzle! Congratulations to our winner; North Port Elementary School 🎉

Thank you all for coming! See you next year ☀️

Ps. we realized afterwards that there are multiple teachers that came from North Port, we will send along a couple reusable water bottles as well. 💧

05/22/2026

On Wednesday, we had the most heart warming e-mail come in from a mom who attended our festival that day with her son. With permission, we are sharing her feedback. This touched the hearts of all our committee members. It's smiles like this that fuel our passion to keep this festival going. We hope every student who attends our festival experiences this sense of joy while learning how important water is to us! 🩵💧
Hats off to our volunteers who help make this experience enjoyable for our guests!
And to our sponsors, this is exactly what you're funding by choosing to support the GBCWF - we couldn't do it without you, thank you! 😊


Day 3 today, here we go! ☀️

05/21/2026

Day 2 ✅
Today we had 338 Grade 4 students join us! Sun and smiles were shining all day ☀️
Our visitors included Normanby, Dawnview, Saugeen Central, Immaculate Conception, Hanover Heights, Teeswater Sacred Heart, Beavervalley, Edgehill, and multiple homeschool groups! 🥳 Thank you for coming!

We had 36 secondary student volunteers from OSDSS show up to run our activities, we couldn't have done it without them & they did a wonderful job. Thank you! 💧🩵

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

Day 1 is in the books!!
Today we had 364 Grade 4 students visit us and learn all about water! It was chilly but the sun was shining!💧Thanks for joining us Holy Family, North Port, East Ridge, Hillcrest Teeswater, Amabel-Sauble, Lucknow Central, WDCS, Egremont, Macphail Memorial!
We had OVER 100 Volunteer Students come out today to run our activities and we couldn't be more thankful for them!! École John Diefenbaker Senior School, Sacred Heart High School, Walkerton, Ontario & Grey Highlands Secondary School

05/19/2026

Today is Water Festival Eve.
Tomorrow we open the doors and start to bring in our anticipated 1,200 Grade 4 students over the next 3 days. None of this would be possible without our incredible 2026 Grey Bruce Children's Water Festival Sponsors! Each of them play a vital role in supporting this festival and we are forever grateful. 🩵

(All tagged + these it wouldn't let me tag👇)
Aces Heavy Towing
Domm Transport
Chesley Kinsmen
Chepstow Lion's Club
germaniamutual
Weatherall Enterprises
Neustadt Lion's Club
fritzalderprecast
Walkerton Clean Water Centre
culliganwatercanada
baygrowers
Marvin Freiburger & Sons
South Bruce Visionary Consultants Inc
55+ Club Mildmay
John Ernewein

05/18/2026

Thanks to our rockstar Monday Set-Up Volunteers... the Water Festival has officially landed! A little more to do tomorrow and we'll be ready to welcome our Grade 4 Guests on Wednesday morning!💧