Gingerbread Adventures in the
Everett Children's
Garden
The scent of gingerbread fills the air at the Everett Children's
Adventure Garden as five fanciful gingerbread houses arrived
for a Winter Wonderland of Gingerbread Houses in
the Bendheim Global Greenhouse. The Wonderland is new this year
at the Garden's annual Gingerbread Adventures holiday event for kids. Star
pastry chefs from Balthazar
Bakery and Soutine Bakery made the gingerbread buildings, which
include a Post Office, Bakery, School, Fire House, and City
Hall. Some of the houses even light up and glow like gingerbread
jewel boxes.
Enjoy a magical holiday adventure at Gingerbread Adventures and the Holiday Train Show until January 9, 2005. Gingerbread Adventures, in the Everett Children's Adventure Garden, invites
children to use their senses to smell, touch, and taste the spices and other
plant parts that make up a classic gingerbread recipe. Discover that cinnamon
comes from the bark of a tree, ginger root from an underground stem, and
cloves from the flower bud of a tree. Holiday activities include grinding
spices, making spicy sachets and ornaments, and decorating gingersnap cookies.
Children experience hands-on fun
grinding pieces of different plant parts: raw sugar, cloves, wheat seeds,
and bits of ginger. Using their senses, children are encouraged to learn
by exploring questions such as, “Do the plant parts
smell differently after grinding?” Children make field notebooks, spicy
herbal sachets, and decorative ornaments to take home.
The Garden's Holiday Train Show features more than 100 replicas of historic New York buildings, all made
from plant parts and other natural materials. Botanical materials such as
leaves, twigs, berries, and pinecones are transformed into dazzling reproductions
of landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the Garden's own Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. This year's show also features
a new model of the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue and replicas of historic
Bronx firehouses. Railway trains and trolleys add another magical touch as
they wind their way through this miniature world.
For more information on Gingerbread Adventures call 718.817.8700 or visit us
on the web at www.nybg.org/family#
Coming Up:
Peppermint Paradise:
January 11ÐFebruary 13, 2005
Chocolate and Vanilla Adventures:
February 15ÐMarch 27, 2005.
