Cape Fear Botanical Garden offers several hands-on projects that can be performed at the Garden or your school.  These projects are designed for groups of up to 30 students, pre-school ages and up. Each program is approximately one hour long, during which all materials are supplied by our Director of Education.

We ask that teachers please schedule programs at least two weeks in advance. Click here for a registration form.

Fees:        On-site at Garden: $5 per student (minimum charge of $40 per group)

                                                  Teachers/Chaperones free

                Combined Tour and On-site project: $7/student (max of 60 students total,

                                                                             minimum charge of $40 per group)

                Off-site at your school:$ 50 for first program (up to 30 students/class)

                                                   $ 25 per additional program (up to 30 students/class)

                                                   Plus government rate for mileage if school location is

                                                   greater than 15 miles from the Garden one-way as

                                                   determined by MapQuest. 

(All prices subject to change, call for details)

The Cape Fear Botanical Garden is a private 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Our education programs are funded through community support.

Hands-on Project Topics

Limmie- The Talking Tree
A visit from Limmie, our costumed mascot, will promote appreciation of trees! Limmie will read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, and discuss with students how trees help people,as well as how people can help trees.
Project: Students will construct a multi-media tree collage.

Splendid Snakes
Students will meet Miss Daisy the Garden's Eastern King Snake . Miss Daisy is a domesticated, tame snake comfortable with groups of children. Explore the unique characteristics of reptiles and create a take home project showcasing these traits.
Project: Student will make a snake mosaic.

Wigglin' Worms: Students learn about the Carolina red wiggler worms, listen to their movements and dig in samples of "living" vermi-compost for worms, their cocoons and companion animals. Project: Students will create a worm habitat in a baggie and take home a pretend red wiggler.

Tadpole Survivor: Make puppets and explore the amphibian life-cycle.  Role-play the toad life-cycle in a tagging game of "tadpole survivor."  If time, facilities and season permit, dip into a pond to check for real critters.  Project: Students will create an amphibian life-cycle puppet.

Tree Basics: Study the parts of the tree.  Project: Create a tree using various collage materials.

Texture Hunt: Using the sense of touch, seek out and collect a number of natural objects having various textures.  Project: Arrange the found items as a "texture garden."  Offered on-site at the Garden only. 

Amazing Seeds: Look at a variety of seeds we use everyday and learn why seeds are important.  Project:  Plant a seed in a recycled newspaper pot to care for at home.

Flower Shapes: Explore the parts of a flower and the function of its structure.  Project: Create an "anatomically correct" paper flower to take home.

Heritage Farm Chores: Students rotate through different stations to experience energy required for various chores (e.g. carrying water, spinning cotton, washing clothes).  Offered on-site at the Garden only. 

Interested in a different topic? 

Call the Garden at (910) 486-0221 to customize a program!