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Fairy & Gnome Nature Hikes & Builds
Fairy & Gnome Nature Hikes & Builds
February 22, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
February School Staycation? Take a Fairy Hike & Build a Fairy House!
Take a walk outside and see nature from a fairy’s perspective!
Select a date:
Tuesday, Feb 22nd, 10:30am-2:30pm
Wednesday, Feb 23rd, 10:30am-2:30pm
Thursday, Feb 24th, 10:30am-2:30pm
Friday, Feb 25th, 10:30am-2:30pm
Gather up to 4 friends & family:
- Tickets on sale in the coming days at www.providenceri.gov/botanical-center/
- $50 for up to 4 participants, must include 1 adult able to assist & supervise children with tools.
- RWPBC Members discount.
- Ideal for children ages 7-12 and those who are creative, young at heart and all those in between!
- Limited space available. Masks must be worn in greenhouses.
HIKE & MAKE:
- Weather permitting, take a guided nature hike to view nature from a fairy point of view!
- Collect materials to use on your own fairy house. Natural items will be available if inclement weather.
- Learn how to create your own fairy architectural masterpiece. Guidance will be given on using glues, getting your house to stand up and lots of decoration hints.
Take your Fairy House home to add your finishing touches.
Earn Free FGD Tickets! Bring back your fairy house to be displayed during Fairy Garden Days and earn 2 free admission tickets to the event!
What to wear:
- Layers to keep you warm and then to peel away in the 70-degree greenhouses!
- Waterproof shoes, boots or sturdy hiking shoes.
Bring:
- Picnic lunch! Snacks! Water!
- Natural materials that you’ve collected to donate to the natural material supplies or to use for your project!
- A sturdy, base to build your house on, like old cutting boards, recycled firm plastic, old plates, pots, or wooden boxes. Remember, if using plastic, it must be hidden.
- Gardening gloves if you’d like to have them for the collecting materials portion.
- Pruners for cutting sticks.
- Hot glue gun if you want to use your own!
- Bring something to collect materials in and then carry your fairy house home- like an IKEA bag!
What we’ll have:
- Tree slice or alternative options for the base of your fairy house.
- A limited assortment of natural materials for building your house and tiny furnishings.
- Hot glue, Elmer’s glue, Wood glue.
- Limited number of pruners and hot glue guns.
- Twine & wire.
Roger Williams Park Botanical Center
1000 Elmwood Ave
Providence, RI 02905