Botany for Children

In the middle of the Botanical Garden's living plant collection, you can meet the museum's educators this summer as we invite children and their adults to activities in our lovely Educational Greenhouse and outdoor pavilions. Drop by and learn more about botany, get your hands dirty, and handle plants.

• Make your own pot out of newspaper, plant a cutting, or sow your own seeds. You can take your finished product home along with instructions to grow botany in your windowsill, garden, or balcony box. Once you've planted your seeds, you will get a Ramasjang Redder diploma, as you are helping to feed the hungry bats – and more flowers attract more insects for the bat to eat.
   
• Create your very own herbarium sheet with pressed plants. You can take the sheet home along with instructions on how to press and dry it at home. 
   
• Go on a plant, bird, or butterfly tour in the Botanical Garden on your own with borrowed charts. 
   
• Colour beautiful drawings of flowers, birds, and butterflies in the Educational Greenhouse or draw flowers freehand.