Nature Play Day: Incredible Insects - Cape Fear Botanical Garden
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. Hands-on activities, games, and learning opportunities are all leisurely designed so families can explore.
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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.
*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.
Organization:
Cape Fear Botanical GardenLocation:
536 N Eastern Blvd
Fayetteville, NC, 28301United States
See map: Google Maps
Phone:
(910) 486-0221Contact name:
Environmental Education Team
Email address:
Dates:
05/24/2025
Time:
10 am - 2 pm
Price:
Included with regular garden admission or membership.
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