We’re off to explore all things gardens and plants from bugs to seeds to compost at the Botany Kids Summer Workshops! These one-day, three-hour workshops are designed for children ages 3 years old* to children entering 2nd grade in the 2025/26 school year. Your child will get a rich, hands-on experience exploring the natural world around them, learning from farmers in our community and ways they can make a difference in their own part of the world. Register for one, two or all three workshops – each month will be a new experience! Includes a snack. 

*children may not be in diapers or pull-ups and must be able to use the bathroom independently.

Bugs, Bees and Worms! Oh, My!  - June

In this workshop we’ll learn about how bugs, bees and worms benefit our gardens, what they eat, where they live and how they help plants grow. We’ll take an urban nature hike to collect items for our own bug hotel as well as collect bugs we can explore later in the day.

·         Book: The Hotel for Bugs

·         Explore: nature hike to find bugs to explore and collect items for our own bug hotel

·         Create: build a bug hotel

·         Community Connection: visit Sun Choke or Botany Field to search for and collect bugs

·         STEM activity: explore bugs and worms with magnifying glasses; compare/contrast; various attributes vs. the bugs job in the garden; graphing – harmful vs helpful