6:30 - 8 p.m. USU Botanical Center, Wetland Discovery Point
Come explore the botanical ponds by canoe and learn the history of the ponds, water quality, and discover which animals and birds call these ponds home.
Turn your trash into treasures! Make masks out of milk jugs, weave jump ropes from plastic bags, construct marionettes from paper towel tubes, melt crayons to make mosaics, create chia pets out of soup cans, and so much more.
Keep your eyes open for garden gnomes and fairies hiding at the USU Botanical Center as you explore the magic of plants! Guided by fairy and garden gnome folklore, you will create a fairy crown or garden gnome hat, discover a hidden picnic, and plant a garden of your own to take home. Feel free to come dressed as a garden gnome, your favorite fairy, or yourself for a morning filled with wonder.
Making your own paper, painting with squirt guns, and creating land art are just a few of the activities you'll participate in while learning about different artists who were inspired by nature.
Climb a tree! Build a shelter! Skip a stone! Make a mud pie! Set up a snail race! Create some wild art! Walk barefoot! Roll down a really big hill! Blow a grass trumpet! Build a home for a wild animal! Discover what lives in the Kaysville Ponds!
Pick blackberries growing in the wild! Explore the inside of a tree! Hunt for bugs! Build a raft! Find a geocache! Hold a scary beast! Make a trail with sticks! Dam a stream! Fly a kite! This camp will be filled with fun.
Fantastic Beasts of the Botanical Center Kids Camp
July 26, 9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
USU Botanical Center
You'll learn to search for signs of animals and develop skills to track them to their favorite hiding spots. Maybe you'll see a baby dragonfly swimming in the pod, a slithery snake hiding in the grass, or even a feathery owl resting in the trees!
