Children's Activities & Education

The Marin Art and Garden Center's Environmental Education Program offers school children specially designed programs to promote awareness of healthy habitats shared by creatures and humans.

     
  Family Gardening Program

  • Click here to download the Brochure with full descriptions of the program

  • Click here to download your registration form

   Join us for another summer full of fun and explorations in the Butterfly Habitat Gardens and Cottage at the Marin Art and Garden Center.

For kids 7 to 11 with a parent or guardian

10am - 12pm Saturdays - Begins April 19, 2008

Here's your opportunity to create lasting, meaningful memories with your child. We're offering a new series of classes for eco-friendly familes who enjoy rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands in the earth. In this 6-week program, parents and children participate in hands-on gardening and nature-related crafts, learn about local ecology and habitats, and take home the ability to create and care for a sustainable edible habitat garden.
     
     
     
  Habitat Garden Camp

  • Click here to download the Brochure with full descriptions of the programs

  • Click here to download your registration forms

   Join us for another summer full of fun and explorations in the Butterfly Habitat Gardens and Cottage at the Marin Art and Garden Center.

Come celebrate, investigate, and learn about ecology in the garden while enjoying hands-on activities like scavenger hunts, garden projects arts and crafts, games and songs, science projects, special guests, and more! MAGC's eleven acres, graced with heritage trees and extensive, varied plantings of California natives offers a unique setting in which your child will enjoy learning and have lots of fun, too.

New this year! In collaboration with Doodlebug, we are offering two all-day sessions full of nature activities, arts and crafts, and games.

Preschoolers-children ages 3 and 4, M-F, 9 a.m. - noon
Session 2: June 23-27, "Winged Ones"
Session 6: July 21-25, "Nature Detectives"
Session 8, August 4-8, "Creepy Crawly Critters"
Session 10: August 18-22, "Winged Ones"

Incoming K and 1st graders, M-F, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Session 1, June 16-20, "Paws, Claws, and Camouflage"
Session 4, July 7-11, "Who Needs Trees? Squirrels, Owls, and Me!"
Session 9, August 11-15, "Nature Detectives"

Incoming 2-4th graders, M-F, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Session 3, June 30-July 3 (four days only), "Garden Guardians"
Session 7, July 28-August 1, "Pollination Nation"

Incoming 3-5th graders, M-F, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Session 5, July 14-18, "Gifts from the Sun (and the Earth)"
     
     
     
Exploring Habitats, Field Trips for 1st & 2nd grades   First and second grade students are welcome to join U.C.C.E. Marin Master Gardeners to discover the simple, yet amazing web of life that exists just outside our doors. We nurture a children.s natural curiosity by involving them in hands-on processes such as: digging through the worm bin, dipping in the pond for aquatic creatures, discovering an egg or pupa of a butterfly, examining skulls and skins of local animals, and turning over stones to find pill bugs, centipedes and salamanders. For more information, click here to open Exploring Habitats Field Trips Brochure (pdf).
     
     
     
Interns/Community Service for high school students   Focus on propagation, habitat maintenance; year round, including summer.
     
     
     
Milkweeds and Monarchs program   MAGC donates milkweeds and monarchs to 1st - 3rd grade classrooms in the Fall and plants throughout the year to all grades as well.
     
     
     
     

For more information on scheduling trips and requesting kits contact the Center's Education Manager (415) 455-5263.