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JULY 2003

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.#

 

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