THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN FAMILY EVENTS The Winter Garden
----The Showstoppers of Spring
----Dig, Plant, Grow!
----Bronx Arts Ensemble Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf
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Bronx Arts Ensemble Family Concert: The Ugly Duckling
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The Winter Garden
1/11/2011 - 3/4/2011: Tues.–Fri., 1:30–4:30 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Location: Everett Children's Adventure Garden
Families investigate nature using their senses, creativity, and basic science skills to explore the vital sparks of life that lie just below the surface of this quiet season. The Discovery Center at the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden is filled with wintry wonders and discoveries around every turn.
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The Showstoppers of Spring
3/5/2011 - 7/1/2011: Tues.–Fri., 1:30–5:30 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Location: Everett Children's Adventure Garden
Take in the theater of nature with hands-on activities and fun for the whole family. Start your exploration of the spring season in the Discovery Center where you can pick up your props for outdoor scavenger hunts. Search for spring ingénues (new buds). Listen for the true songbirds of the season, and delight in the cast of characters that only a garden can showcase.
Children and families learn about plants and the natural world through hands-on gardening at this one-and-a-half acre site. Each afternoon children—with help from their parents, volunteers, and staff—are encouraged to dig, weed, compost, plant, tend, and harvest in garden plots. These ongoing gardening activities are complemented by a changing roster of programs that encourage children to explore seasonal garden-related themes. Click "More" below to see the themes.
The Family Garden offers whimsical topiaries, a pond teeming with life, a flourishing meadow, rows of planting beds, two open-air pavilions for relief from sun and rain, and lively display gardens featuring an array of plants, including heirloom varieties of tomatoes, aromatic herbs, and colorful vegetables.
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Bronx Arts Ensemble Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf
4/24/2011: 1 & 3 p.m.
Location: Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
The Bronx Arts Ensemble winds portray Grandfather, the Bird, the Cat, the Duck, the Hunters, the Wolf, and more in Serge Prokofiev’s popular musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf. The audience will be introduced to each instrument and join in the madcap adventure to help capture the Wolf!
Admission included with All-Garden Pass.
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Bronx Arts Ensemble Family Concert: The Ugly Duckling
5/9/2011: 1 & 3 p.m.
Location: Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
Written by Dante Albertie with musical arrangement by William Scribner, The Ugly Duckling is an adaptation of the beloved Hans Christian Andersen tale of a homely bird that endures teasing and loneliness until he grows up into a beautiful, graceful swan.
Children study the relationships between flowers and important pollinators such as bees, birds, and butterflies and learn how flowers ultimately become fruits. They can make a pollinator puppet, dissect flowers and fruits, investigate the differences among seeds, and
