Fun for Kids - Growing Up Green

Calling all young sprouts! Get ready for some hands-on fun at the 11th Annual New Jersey Flow & Garden Show’s “Growing Up Green” program.

Education specialist Margareta Warlick from Aurora Arts and Design will lead free daily activities for younger show visitors. Maker sure to stop by the Growing Up Green area to reserve a spot in a workshop. These hour-long workshops will start at:

-Thursday (2pm, 4pm & 6pm)
-Friday (11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm & 7pm)
-Saturday (11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm & 7pm)
-Sunday (12noon, 2pm & 4pm)

Stop by and partake in these great workshops:

Baby Bottle - Make a little green house using recycled material and grow a baby plant

Lets Play in the Dirt - Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty planting a mini garden in soil

Spring Hats - Festoon an extraordinary hat to wear at a spring affair

Me no Humba, You Humba - As Mardi Gras approaches, make and mask yourself

Flower Fairies - Make a flower fairy; every garden needs a fairy to keep things magical

Fairy Houses - Make a home for your flower fairy using natural materials

Put your muscle into it - Paint with the dye from fresh flowers and take home a special cloth for your home

Plant Painting - Create a picture using pigments from the earth

What can you make from a tree? - Discover the art of papermaking

Wheat Weaving

NJ Audubon Children's Program - Thursday, February 14th from 3:00 to 5:00pm.
Create a bottle bird feeder with New Jersery Audubon naturalists! Children can make a bird feeder using recycled plastic bottles. The children will attach a string for hanging it outside and a perch for the birds, and decorate it with stickers!