Summer Adventures at the New York Botanical-Garden
Children and their families double
their fun this summer at the two gardens designed especially
for children: the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
and the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. Children participate
in the following engaging programs:
Flower Power in the Adventure Garden Going on now through
September 14, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
This summer children investigate the brightly-colored jumbo
flower models to discover how flowers are adapted to attract
their pollinators. The larger-than-life flowers showcase the
exciting features they possess to attract a pollinator: Does
the pollinator hover? What colors attract a pollinator? Did
you know bees like flowers that have a bulls-eye pattern? In
the Bendheim Global Herbarium, children craft flowers for pollinators
like bats, moths, beetles, and bees. Children play a pollinator
puppet matching game that pair up pollinators such as hummingbirds,
bees, and butterflies, to their favorite flower. July is loaded
with captivating, ongoing activities including dissecting live
flowers and studying them under microscopes, playing a scented
guessing game, planting marigold seeds to take home, and exploring
the Adventure Garden on captivating flower hunts.
Budding Botanists–Tuesday
through Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. For children ages 2-5
Get creative with Nature’s
ABCs, a program for early literacy through the study of nature.
Explore each letter with stories and hands-on activities
like planting, pasting, stamping, and coloring:
July 8 - 18, July 22 - August 1
What better place to enjoy the beauty
of the season? Camp groups are dazzled by the wonders of
the natural world within the Garden’s 250 acres. Select
from a lineup of exciting summer programs:
How Does Your Garden Grow? Family Garden: Children plant,
weed, water, compost with red wiggler worms, and help create
a lush summer garden full of flowers, herbs, and vegetables.
Each child pots up a plant to take home.
Guided Walks of the Garden Grounds
or in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory: Children look, smell,
and listen as they explore the natural wonders of the Garden
grounds. In the Conservatory, children see a South American
Healer’s House, explore
insect-eating plants, and discover how plants adapt to different
climates. Children are amazed at the Agave americana, or century
plant. This is the first time this species has flowered at
the Garden, and its spike, that can grow up to more than a
foot a day, has literally grown through the roof of the Conservatory.
Self-led Tours of the Garden Grounds:
In these themed tours, young detectives explore the Garden
grounds, solve the mystery of the missing nectar, and discover
the wonders of a 50-acre Forest. Children investigate the
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory using the “Adventures for Plant Hunters” guide
or search the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail for aquatic plants,
birds, and frogs to play “Wetland Bingo.”
Teacher Training: Summer Institutes
Seedlings Workshop for teachers
of grades K-2; NEW! July 28 - August 1— AVAILABLE
There are three options for credit:
Thirty units of New York City Department of Education New
Teacher Credit; Three “G” in-service
credits from the NYC Dept. of Ed.; Two graduate credits in
education through CUNY Lehman College.
Additional fee and requirements
apply for “G” and
graduate credits. For more information, or to register call
(718) 817-8177.#
