Hamilton Children's Garden
Hours
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Daily
(Closed Christmas and New Year’s Day)
Best Friends Tea Party
Sunday, May 23 • 2:00 pm
Dress up fancy to sip tea from fine china. Bring your best friend and your favorite doll to enjoy a formal tea party in the Hamilton Children’s Garden. “Mistress Molly Quigley” in full colonial dress will teach colonial manners. In addition to tea and light refreshments, each child will make a “tussie mussie” and “food items” for her doll. Mom and Grandmother are welcome. For children ages 6 and up.
Cost (children): Members $20, Non-members $25.
Cost (adults): Members $25, Non-members $30.
Pre-registration required by May 17.
Call 760/ 436–3036 x206.
Fairy Festival
Saturday, June 19 • 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Fairies! Come celebrate summer at the Hamilton Children’s Garden. Wear your fairy costume if you have one, or come just as you are. Create a fairy house, make fairy treasures, leave messages on the wishing bush, or shop in the Fairyland market. Don’t forget to bring your camera for a picture with the Fairy Queen. Schedule: Crafts, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm; Fairy Parade, 12:30 pm; Free Play and Stories, 1:00 – 2:00 pm.
Cost: Free with admission or membership. Many free activities, small fee
for some crafts.
Find Leonard
Lucille the lizard is looking for her best friend Leonard. Come to the Hamilton Children’s Garden, follow the trail, and see if you can help
find him.
Hamilton Happenings
Mondays and Thursdays • 3:30 pm
March Hamilton Happenings
March 1 and 4
Sundial Savvy and Sunflowers (Native American)
Tell time with the sundial.
Make a paper sundial to take home
March 8 and 9
Let’s Celebrate: Trees Please!!
A week-long festival of trees to celebrate California Arbor Day
Tree facts, a bark scavenger hunt, leaf rubbings, trees in poetry and fantasy. Learn about Athena and the Olive Tree; make a “Whomping Willow”.
Help make a temporary tree sculpture in the Elephant Foot Forest
March 15and 18
Looking for Red (but we thought leaves should be green.)
Meet in the vegetable garden “Incredible Edibles “ to search for red among the greens.
March 22, 25, and 29
World Water Day
We celebrate World Water Day learning about the “Big Blue Marble”, earth. Do experiments on water drainage for different soil types. Learn how desert plants conserve water. Play 20 water questions.
Explore the natural world in the Hamilton Children’s Garden. Sometimes science, sometimes art, sometimes stories, sometimes crafts.
Requirement: bring an inquiring mind and your imagination.
For more information email MRoper@SDBGarden.org
Cost: Free with admission or membership.
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