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Fall Festivities in Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, NY Botanical
Garden
This fall surround yourself with the orange, yellow, and red leaves
of the trees in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden and experience
the beauty and excitement of nature in the one-of-a-kind, 12-acre
indoor/outdoor science museum where children can explore, discover
and learn how plants live and function. There are so many things
to do–from ballet dancing to building scarecrows. Participate
in our specially designed inquiry-based programs that stimulate
a child’s enthusiasm for science, ecology and conservation.
ONGOING
ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES
Tuesday, Sundays and Monday holidays: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Throughout the season, children dissect plant parts such as seeds
and flowers, experiment to find out if plants make sugar to use
as food, investigate bugs that help plants grow, use microscopes
to see plants up close, press flowers and plants to take home,
and much more. We encourage children to explore, examine, inquire
and question just like scientists. A few of the many things children
discover include, what’s in a flower by taking it apart and putting
it back together — and children have an opportunity to look at
things through a bee’s eye view!
Budding
Botanists Every Tuesday–Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Join us for activities specially designed for the early learner
(2-5 year olds). Nature crafts featuring recyclables and experiments
abound. Using washed juice boxes, milk cartons, soda bottles,
or egg cartons create an instrument, garden pet, or experiment
to take home. Activities change regularly and are complemented
with a colorful story each week. Drop in!
September
Ballet Among the Blooms–Saturday, September 21,
3 - 5 p.m.
Delight in an afternoon of ballet in the Everett Children’s Adventure
Garden. The New York City Ballet’s education department along
with the School of American Ballet dancers will introduce children
to ballet steps and choreography.
Scarecrow
and Harvest Weekend–Saturday and Sunday, September 28 and
29,
Adventure Garden 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. and Family Garden 1 - 5:30
p.m.
Come enjoy Scarecrow and Harvest Weekend at the Ruth Rea Howell
Family Garden and the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. At
the Family Garden, build a scarecrow to live at the Family Garden,
make corn husk dolls, and sip apple cider. Then stop by the Adventure
Garden where children can dissect apples and make fruit prints,
create a fall field notebook with autumn leaves, decorate gourds,
participate in a fruit and seed hunt, and much more. For more
information please call (718) 817-8700. The Everett Children’s
Adventure Garden has been made possible by the leadership generosity
of Edith and Henry Everett.
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