Celebrating Wildflowers
Saturday, June 6
Noon – 4 p.m.
Olympic Sculpture Park, PACCAR Pavilion
SAM teams up with Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation to celebrate native plants and the role that they play in nature and in our lives. Create green art using recycled materials, and explore games and displays from SAM partners. Discover the world of mosses, flowers, pollinators, natural dyes and more!
Performances and Tours
1:00 p.m. – Urban Wilderness Project's Griot Youth Troupe
Tales from the Urban Wilderness. Stories that connect us to the world within us and around us. A youth performance suitable for all ages. Approximately 30 minutes. Performance will be held in the Alvord Art Lab inside the PACCAR Pavilion.
1:30 and 3:00 p.m. – Guided Native Plant Tours
Explore the native plants of the Olympic Sculpture Park with experts from Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation. Tours leave from the Trust for Public Land Terrace (north end of the PACCAR Pavilion).
Activity Stations – Open All Day, Located in and around the PACCAR Pavilion
Activities by Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation
Pollinator Game
Put on some wings, fly around, and help the flowers get pollinated! Designed for ages 3 – 5.
Painting with Plants
Create your own work of art by painting with a variety of plants. Designed for ages 4 and up.
Moss Madness
Get up close to a wide variety of native mosses. Designed for ages 6 and up.
Mystery Flower
Can you name the mystery plant as you explore plants with your hands, not your eyes? Designed for ages 7 and up.
Microscopy!
Discover the secrets of plants with a surprising look through microscopes. Designed for ages 7 and up.
Plant Pressing
Pick up this activity to take home or start your project at the park. Designed for ages 7 and up.
Rare Care
Learn about Washington’s rare native plants and receive a Celebrating Wildflowers temporary tattoo!
Community Crocheting with Artist Mandy Greer- Mater Matrix Mother and Medium
Join artist Mandy Greer, and with your fellow Seattleites, crochet, knot and twist recycled fabrics into a 200-foot long fiber river.
Creation Station: Shrinky Plants – Seattle Art Museum
Use recycled materials to create a do-it-yourself shrinky dink based on the native plants of the Olympic Sculpture Park. Then wear your charm to show your appreciation for plants and our environment!
Gardening with Native Plants – Washington Native Plant Society
Learn how to bring our regional natives into your yard, creating habitat for wildlife and saving water. Make your garden carefree with the right plant in the right place.
Invasive Plants in the Pacific Northwest – King County Noxious Weed Board
Take the Native vs. Noxious Quiz to test your knowledge about which plants are native and which are invasive species. You might be surprised - you can't always judge a plant by its colorful flowers.
People, Plants and Pollination – University of Washington Botanic Gardens Education
Discover the amazing life cycle of plants by examining flowers and seeds with magnifiers, be a bee and pollinate flowers, and find out how native plants can be used for survival!
Sustainable Foods – TASTE Café
Examine TASTE Cafés compostable packaging program and learn more about TASTE’s commitment to sustainability featuring local, fresh, organic foods.
Where Do Plants Live? – Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Explore four ECOSYSTEMS of Washington. Examine museum specimens of plants – and animals, too! – that live in those ecosystems. For older visitors, try out an incredible Web resource on plants: the UW Herbarium Image Collection.
Traditional Uses of Native Plants – Skokomish Tribe
Expand your knowledge of native plants as you learn about traditional gathering techniques and the many medicinal and culinary uses of Western Washington plant species.
Carpooling and alternative transportation encouraged! Event will be held indoors in the event of inclement weather.
For more information visit seattleartmuseum.org
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