SPIRALS IN NATURE

You can see examples of Community Gardens all around Philadelphia.  But did you ever think about all the things that need to happen to make a garden dream come true?   Wanda is a little girl who finds an old thorn bush in a vacant lot.  She thinks it might be a rosebush and starts to dream of having her very own rose garden.  See how she gets her neighbors involved in making her dream come true!

We’ll begin by reading the story of Wanda in Wanda’s Roses, and acting it out like a play!  Next we’ll look at examples of  SPIRALS IN NATURE, including roses!   Then we will make tissue paper rosebuds to take home as Valentine’s gifts.   Come join the fun, for adults or kids!

LET IT SNOW!

Come to Ormiston Mansion on  Sunday January 5 for our first Sunday Funday of 2025. Our featured book will be Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.  It’s about a boy who loved nature and figured out how to photograph snowflakes.  He made over 2500 photographs of snowflakes and discovered they all had SIX POINTS! This book is required reading in elementary schools in Vermont, where Bentley lived and grew up.

We will take a winter walk down the Boxer Trail, looking for signs of winter and spring. Then we will come inside and learn how to cut and fold our own SIX-POINTED snowflakes!  Text Claire at 215-771-0046 for more info.  Tell us if you are coming so we have enough snacks and materials.