Green Street Fair - The world is going green. You coming? TM

IKEA: Visit the IKEA Canton exhibit in The Gathering, located off of Penniman between Main Street and Union to see an interactive sustainable home display and enter to win a $500 IKEA Gift Card to help you live a sustainable life at home or a new mountain bike to help reduce your carbon footprint.

FORD: Get up close and personal for the first time with the all-new 2012 Focus that gets 40MPG.

ART INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN: Come and discover how to create your own organic masterpiece in the kitchen! Live cooking demonstrations all weekend.

To kids, few things are as enchanting as a bona fide fort. With a little imagination, an old cardboard box becomes the center of the universe - a place where entering requires a secret handshake, a password or a classified knock. But building a fort is just as much an adventure as playing in it. Fort Box will resemble a small village where children of all ages can gather, share ideas and swap secrets. With the help from students at New Morning School in Plymouth, Fort Box will be going global this year. NMS students will build replicas of landmark bridges from around the world using materials such as corrugated plastic scraps, two-liter bottles, milk cartons, and the like. Concentrating on a world travel theme this year, eight to ten structures will be built and displayed in Kellogg Park, tying into the New Morning School engineering and architecture curriculum.

THE PICKLED PINK MOTHER'S DAY PARADE & INSTRUMENT BUILDING PLAYSHOP | Sponsored by WDVD 96.3 & 93.1 DOUG FM

Green Street Fair will be celebrating Mother Earth all weekend and will also be pulling out the stops to celebrate all moms on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8. To kick off the Mothers Day festivities, Green Street Fair welcomes Deep Fried Pickle Project, a junk band from Southwest Michigan that blends bluegrass, metal, jug band and honky-tonk tunes into their performances that embrace fans of all ages. In conjunction with their performances on Saturday and Sunday, "The Pickle Boys" are dedicated to music education and will bring with them an instrument play shop to teach kids (known to The Pickle Boys as "gherkins") and adults how to make homemade instruments out of recyclable materials. Children of all ages will be encouraged to craft a canjo, make a mom's day maraca, construct a Kazoo, or a silly singing straw. The Pickles will demonstrate how to build and play these zany, multicolored music-makers to lead the Mother's Day parade on Sunday, May 8. Children and parents are encouraged to participate in creating an instrument at the workshop prior to the Mother's Day Parade scheduled for Sunday at noon. Event attendees are also invited to bring their own noisemakers such as pots, pans, bells, drums and the like. Decorated tricycles and bikes are also encouraged!

Yelp will have a fantastic kid's craft table where the little ones can make Mom a lovely, earth friendly surprise for Mother's Day.

In lieu of flushing drugs down the toilet or throwing them into the garbage which can contaminate water supplies, the Yellow Jug Old Drugs program will allow event attendees to bring their medications to the Green Street Fair to properly dispose of unused, unwanted and expired drugs.

Get the list of items that will and will not be accepted here.

CELL PHONE RECYCLING

E-CLUTTER FOR KIDS | Sponsored by Beaumont Children's Hospital, Statewide Recycling, WDVD 96.3 and 93.1 DOUG FM

A recycl-a-thon to help children with speech and language disorders. If you're tired of that old computer monitor sitting in your garage or have a drawer full of extra cables, toner cartridges or cameras, this is your opportunity to safely recycle these items and raise money for treatment scholarships at the Center for Speech and Language Disorders at Beaumont Children's Hospital .

An extraordinary 65% of all proceeds will benefit the Pediatric Speech and Language Disorders Scholarship Fund at Beaumont Children's Hospital affiliated with Children's Miracle Network .