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DECEMBER 2004

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.

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