| Celebrate
Everett Children’s Adventure Garden’s 5th Birthday
The Everett Children’s
Adventure Garden celebrates five years of educating children,
their families, and their teachers with a wide range of fun and
engaging programs and exhibits. The Adventure Garden is a destination
for children to experience plant science and freely explore nature.
From the moment the Adventure Garden opened its doors to the public
in May of 1998 it has been a celebration. In the past 5 years,
the Adventure Garden has become one on the Garden’s great treasures.
The Adventure
Garden is considered to be an innovative and cutting-edge children’s
garden: a 12-acre hands-on indoor/outdoor children’s museum with
its interactive learning landscapes devoted solely to the study
and playful exploration of plant science. You won’t want to miss
any of the fun this month.
FOR FAMILIES
NEW! Nature’s
Ice Cream Parlor: Every Weekend in May 1:30-5:00 p.m. Learn about
the plant parts that give this treat its fantastic flavors. From
all-time favorites like vanilla and chocolate, to exotic flavors
like pistachio and coconut—you have plants to thank for the flavors.
Children participate in special activities like making and tasting
fruity ice cream flavors! Kids top off their Nature’s Ice Cream
Parlor experience by making their own “plant part” sundae adding
different plant treats including nuts, chocolate, berries, and
spices.
NEW! Put Your
Plants On Exhibit in the Bendheim Global Herbarium–Opens Saturday
May 3rd!
Put Your Plants
On! is a new exhibit in the Bendheim Global Greenhouse at the
Adventure Garden. Children have fun learning how plants become
the textiles used to make fabrics, clothes and even shoes. Children
discover exotic plants and plant parts, watch live silkworms,
weave plant-based fibers at the giant loom and try on clothes
and accessories made from a closet full of plants!
Coming Up In June…
NEW! Flower Power:
June 14 -September 14, 2003, 10-6 p.m.
Flowers are a
feast for the senses, and we’ve got them in abundance! Visit the
Adventure Garden and experience the dizzying diversity of color,
fragrance, shape, and size found among our blossoms. As children
travel along the floral trail they experience the world of flowers
through the eyes of a pollinator and use their senses to search
the Garden for favorite flowers, while learning about the interaction
of plants and animals.
FOR TEACHERS
Expanded! Teacher
Training: Summer Institutes, TWO weeks added!
The
Sara Lee Schupf Summer Institutes provide a weeklong intensive
immersion in ecology and botanical science led by professional
scientists and educators.
For more information
contact (718) 817-8181 or visit us on the web at www.nybg.org
Education
Update, Inc., P.O. Box 20005, New York, NY 10001.
Tel: (212) 481-5519. Fax: (212) 481-3919.Email: ednews1@aol.com.
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consent of the publisher. © 2003.
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