Sorticulture, the city of Everett’s art and garden party, rocks when it comes to family fun.
From creating garden art to learning about bats and orca whales, kids and parents can easily find entertainment.
The annual garden arts festival runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundayat Legion Memorial Park, 145 Alverson Blvd., Everett. Admission is free.
Sorticulture celebrates the combination of art and the garden, with nurseries displaying many kinds of plants and flowers and artists showcasing their hand-crafted creations.
There is also a food fair and a wine garden.
Here’s a list of family-friendly activities going on throughout the weekend. Most are free.
Create Your Own Mosaic/Active Art and Science: Tim Lowell shows the steps to creating stepping stones, framed mirrors or trivets using recycled, tumbled stained glass. Cost is between $4 and $20. For more information go to www.activeartandscience.com/info.html. Kids can decorate flower pots and plant seeds to take home.
Quilceda Carvers: Members of the Quilceda Carvers will carve and share their wooden cutouts. Kids will be able to color these cutouts and take them home. The cutouts come in a variety of shapes including boats, planes, animals and flowers. For more information, go to www.quilcedacarvers.org/.
Face painting: Whimsical butterflies, animals, flowers and other decorations can be painted on your child’s face from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Kids should be in line by 2:15 to 2:30 p.m. to make sure they get a turn. For more information go to www.colorfulevents.com.
Pettable pets: Stop by the Everett Animal Services/Animal Rescue van to visit cats, dogs and guinea pigs that can be adopted, and have your pet’s name engraved on a tag.
WSU Livestock Master Foundation: John Nelson will inform families about livestock and small farms and will have a mobile chicken house on site.
Bats Northwest: Bat houses will be on display with information about the benefits of having bats around. Sorry, no live bats. For more information go to www.batsnorthwest.org.
People for Puget Sound: An “orca toss” for kids will help start a conversation about the effects of storm drain water on killer whale populations. For more information go to www.pugetsound.org.
Urban Chickens: Chickens and chicks will be at the park at 10:30 a.m. Saturday to help teach families how to care for backyard chickens.
Display gardens: Kids can check out two display gardens geared to their pint-sized level. Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center will have several tiny gardens done in surreal settings. Small Worlds Within Reach will have four tabletop landscape dioramas.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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