Kids & Families
Young visitors enjoy the Children’s Discovery Room which features seven interactive stations that reflect Brookgreen’s nature, art, and history.
At the Welcome Center, pick up a Brookgreen Detectives booklet. It gives kids an educational adventure where they can investigate, explore, and enjoy art while following clues, making observations, sketching drawings, and even playing word games. When completed, they turn in the booklet and receive a Brookgreen Detectives sticker and prize!
Kids' love the daily animal program, Mother Nature's Cafe, where they observe the animals as an interpreter feeds the animals a snack and hear about their behaviors and characteristics in this informative 50-minute tour.
In the Huntington Sculpture Garden, we have 'A Garden Room for Children' that stirs young imaginations with displays of plants and sculpture. There are wooded nooks to hide in, things to climb on, and sculptural animals to marvel at. There is even an elevated place for parents to sit and watch the magic of children learning as they play.
Butterfly House Open Daily April - October
Whispering Wings Butterfly Experience
This seasonal exhibit features a lush garden filled with tropical
plants where hundreds of butterflies soar through the air. Monarch,
Zebra Longwing, Swallowtail, Julia, Buckeye, Queen, Painted Lady, and
American Lady are just a few of the species that call Whispering Wings
home. We will add dozens of other species throughout the summer and
fall. Whispering Wings contains a pupae emergence room where you can
observe the transformation from chrysalis to adult butterflies. The
exhibit is open daily. Tickets are $3 - adults and $2 - children in
addition to garden admission for a 30-minute timed visit.
Enchanted Storybook Forest
May through October
Younger guests enter the magical world of the
Enchanted Storybook Forest, a collection of storybook playhouses created
by local builders, architects and organizations. Each house is based on
a classic children’s story or nursery rhyme and will encourage reading
and interaction with the natural world. Special programs, classes, and
activities will occur throughout the season and include storytelling
under the trees, book sharing, arts and crafts and lessons on nature.
The exhibit is free with garden admission.
