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George, an Eagle Scout volunteer, recently installed a “fairy garden” on the Paw Paw Nature Trail. This experience is FREE with Museum admission and all little builders are welcome!
Take a walk and fall under nature’s spell to the enchanted garden where fairies dwell. Folklore has it that fairies are the spirits of the plants and animals that live in the woods. It is also said fairies love to visit houses in natural habitats. Using non-living natural materials, children of all ages delight in the construction of fairy houses. From mansions to cottages small hands create miniature homes hidden in the hollows of trees, on the sides of rocks or even in low hanging branches. Imaginations run wild as little builders use nature’s bounty to design homes in anticipation of a visit from a fairy.
Do you have fairies in your backyard? What do you like to build from nature’s ‘loose parts’?
Naturally Speaking,
Lisa Hoffman
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Lisa Hoffman is the Director of Charlotte Nature Museum. Prior to joining Discovery Place in 2003, Lisa held positions as a science educator and mentor with District of Columbic Public Schools and worked for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. She has conducted air quality research using the fern O. cinnamomea as an indicator species and also studied the presence of endophytic fungi in the roots of ferns. She is committed to environment-based education and the improvement of urban schools.
Lisa holds a MS degree in Biology and a BS degree in Botany from Howard University in Washington, DC.
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Post a CommentDid the deer in the nature walk fenced enclosure get in thier on its own or was it placed there?
herbertpeek - January 01, 2011