Nature Play Day in the Garden - Insects!

Discover the incredible world of bugs! With games, activities, a touch table, and a live animal presentations. Families can encounter beetles, millipedes, spiders, butterflies, and more!

Nature Play Day: Incredible Insects is an educational event created for families with children ages 2-8. -- May 24 -- 10am-12noon

Hands-on activities, games, and learning opportunities are all leisurely designed so families can explore.

Activities include:
* Live Animal Presentations with the Museum of Life and Science
* Build a Bug Station: Create and build your made-up insect!
* Insect Touch Table: Discover Tiger Beetles, Blue Morpho Butterflies, Huntsman Spiders, and more! This is your chance to look up close at preserved insect specimens.
* Create a Fossil: Make a bug fossil using modeling dough.
* Camouflaged Bug Hunt: Can you spot all the sneaky insects hiding in the Garden?
* Games and Puzzles: Enjoy a selection of insect games and puzzles all available in the Children’s Pavilion
* Insect Actions Obstacle Course: Climb through the spider web, duck through the ant tunnel, flutter like a butterfly, and jump like a grasshopper!

Learning Benefits:
* Encourage outdoor play and nature exploration
* Learn through play with hands-on activities exploring flowers, pollinators, and seeds
* Learn at your own pace with interactive table stations and self-guided play

Location: Outdoors in the Children’s Garden

Included with regular garden admission or membership. No pre-registration is required.

You may also like the following events from Cape Fear Botanical Garden:

• This Thursday, 22nd May, 06:00 pm, Family Art Night at the Garden: Nature Journals in Fayetteville
• Next Saturday, 31st May, 02:00 pm, FULL! Mosaic Stepping Stones Workshop at the Garden in Fayetteville
• Next month, 3rd June, 08:00 am, Day Camp at the Garden: Carnivorous Plants (Ages 8-12) in Fayetteville

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