Children s Adventure Garden Enjoy hands-on science fun during Bats, Butterflies, Birds, and Bees in the Everett Children s Adventure Garden at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Open Tuesday through Friday from 1 6pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10am 6pm, the Everett Children s Adventure Garden is the best place in New York for kids to discover nature. With Bats, Butterflies, Birds, and Bees activities, kids have fun finding out how plants depend on animals and insects for pollination, and how even kids themselves can be pollinators. Children explore why certain pollinators are attracted to certain flower shapes and colors, and investigate what kinds of flowers to plant to attract butterflies to their gardens or container plantings.
Kids examine the myths and misconceptions about bats and discover why they are important in nature.
In the Arthur Hays and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Meadow Gallery, amidst a garden of spring in bloom, visitors discover how seeds are made and dispersed. Take apart and put together the pieces of an enormous pink flower. Be A Pollen Mover. See pollen up-close and learn why pollen makes you sneeze. Bee s Eye View.