Children’s Museum in Phoenix to open new gardening exhibit on Sunday
Oct 5, 2017, 4:05 AM
(Flickr/Andreas Wienemann)
(Flickr/Andreas Wienemann)
PHOENIX — The Children’s Museum of Phoenix will open a new exhibit this weekend. The Children’s Garden will kick off on Sunday, giving kids of all ages the ability to explore the great outdoors.
The exhibit, which is designed in a leaf pattern, includes seven planting beds and one raised leaf-shaped wheelchair accessible garden. Children can use an interactive water pump to help water the garden and grow vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit trees.
It will allow children to get a hand-on experience in a garden, where they will “feel the dirt in their hands and the trickle of water on their toes while interacting with the garden components,” according to a press release.
An artist’s rendering of the exhibit. (Photo: Children’s Museum of Phoenix)
Children and their caregivers can go through the garden on their own or they can be guided by a program facilitator. The exhibit will be opened daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
On Sunday, the exhibit’s opening day will include celebrations from 9 a.m. to noon. The celebrations include allowing members of the museum a first look at the exhibit, as well as allowing those children to plant the first seeds.
Starting at 10 a.m., all other museum-goers will be able to partake in activities like making tissue paper flower hats and investigating insects with an entomologist. Children will also be able to plant a seed in a cup to take home and watch it grow.
The exhibit was designed and constructed by a team that included Joan Baron, Laurie Lundquist and Kevin Moore. It is an outgrowth of the museum’s Artist-In-Residence Program, which was kicked off by a $100,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
