Garden Events and Calendar

2016 Magnuson Children’s Garden Event Calendar

• March 19th from 10 am – 2 pm:  Seattle Works TeamWorks stewardship event. This first major event of the year will be about preparing for our new Butterfly Garden and Blueberry patch!

• April 16th from 10 am – 2 pm: Seattle Works TeamWorks “spring spruce-up” stewardship event and 2nd annual FREE Earth Day Celebration with family-friendly hands-on garden activities, such as worm bin exploration, nature art, and more!

• Friday May 13^th from 4 – 5:30 pm: A custom stewardship event for a local girl scout troop to plant the new Butterfly Garden!

• June 18^th from 12 noon – 3:30 pm: the annual Seattle Works Day event with a group from Lakeside School giving the garden a “summer spruce-up” and beginning the Butterfly Garden mosaic brick project. There will also be FREE Family Day with hands-on garden activities such as worm bin exploration, nature art, and more!

• Friday July 1st from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: This FREE Family Day event will feature garden stewardship plus family-friendly activities, such as worm bin exploration, nature art, and more during the Magnuson Community Center’s Ice Cream Social event with Bluegrass band “The Weevils”!

• Tuesday July 26th from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: This FREE Family Day event will feature garden stewardship plus family-friendly activities, such as worm bin exploration, nature art, and more during the Magnuson Community Center’s free concert event with Beatles tribute band “Creme Tangerine”

• Tuesday August 16th from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: This FREE Family Day event will feature garden stewardship plus family-friendly activities, such as worm bin exploration, nature art, and more during the Magnuson Community Center’s free concert event with a performance from Caspar Babypants!

• Saturday, September 10th from 10 am – 2 pm: Seattle Works TeamWorks stewardship event – Help make mosaic bricks for our new Butterfly Garden, complete its perennial plantings and more!

• Friday September 23rd from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm: annual United Way Day of Caring volunteer event in the Magnuson Children’s Garden and P-Patch, with a group from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation giving the garden a “fall spruce up” just in time for the Oct 1st Scarecrow Fest!

• Saturday October 1^st from 11 am – 2 pm: The annual Scarecrow Fest!  In partnership with Magnuson Community Center, we’ll host our usual array of family-friendly activities, such as worm bin exploration, nature art, plus Scarecrow Fest favorites such as the orchard maze/scavenger hunt, Bluegrass band, harvesting for the food back, and much, much more!

• Saturday, October 8th from 10 am – 2pm: Seattle Works TeamWorks stewardship event – This last major event of the year will be about preparing the garden beds, tool shed, and other areas for winter!

For more info, or to volunteer at any of these events, contact us at magnusonchildrensgarden@gmail.com.  Thanks!