Flower Power: Botany and Art for Kids
October 12 | 1:00–4:00 PM | High Five Books | Ages 6–9 (Ages 10+ as CITs)

Nature has been quietly doing extraordinary things all season long. On October 12, we are going to slow down and take a closer look.

Flower Power is a half-day science and nature program that invites kids into the beautiful, surprising, and endlessly fascinating world of flowers and leaves. Through hands-on exploration, real specimens, and the kind of gentle, curious science that makes the natural world feel like magic, young botanists will discover what is really going on inside a flower, why leaves are the shape they are, and how plants have been solving problems that humans are still trying to figure out.

This is not just arts and crafts. This is real botany — joyful, hands-on, and designed to make kids look at every flower and leaf they encounter for the rest of their lives with completely new eyes.

Activities may include:

• Flower Dissection — carefully take apart a real flower and discover its hidden world. Petals, sepals, stamens, pistils, and pollen — every part has a purpose and a story. Young botanists will label and learn each one like real plant scientists.
• Leaf Rubbings — explore the science of leaf veins and their remarkable structure through the beautiful and satisfying art of leaf rubbing. Every leaf tells a different story — and every rubbing is a one-of-a-kind piece of art.
• Natural Dye Experiment — discover the remarkable pigments hiding inside flowers and plants and use them to dye fabric or paper in the most beautiful, surprising, and completely natural way. No synthetic dyes. No chemicals. Just the extraordinary color that nature has been making all along.
• Flower Pressing & Preserving — carefully press and preserve real flowers using traditional botanical techniques — creating a beautiful keepsake that captures the color, shape, and science of the natural world in a way that will last long after October 12 is over.

Every camper leaves with their pressed flower keepsake, their natural dye creation, and a deeper understanding of the natural world right outside their door — and the kind of curiosity that turns every walk into a science adventure. 

Looking for a full day of fall science fun? Combine All About Bats (9:00 AM–12:00 PM) with a supervised Lunch Bunch break (just $10) and Flower Power (1:00–4:00 PM) for a complete, joy-filled day of exploration and discovery.

Flower Power meets October 12 from 1–4:00 PM at High Five Books, 141 N Main Street, Florence MA.

Existing students: Register through Tutorbird. New students: Please select “1/2 day pop-up program” and then select the correct data (October 12) and time (1pm-4).