Butterfly Festival at the Dunwoody Nature Center, June 27 & 28

Don't miss the BIGGEST weekend event of the DNC year!

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Monarchs & Margaritas - Friday, June 27, 2008

The butterflies arrive on Friday, in preparation for the Butterfly Festival. Grown-ups get a sneak peek at our tent full of butterflies during the festive Monarchs & Margaritas! Join us from 6 to 9 pm for Mexican food, cold margaritas, silent auction, and a stroll through our enchanted park and butterfly tent. Proceeds benefit Dunwoody Nature Center. Must be 21 or older to attend. $25 Members and $30 Non-members. Tickets are limited; advance purchase recommended. Call 770-394-3322 for purchase and will-call.

Butterfly Festival - Saturday, June 28, 2008

Members-only from 9:30-10:30 am; gates open to all from 10:30 - 2 pm.

Bill Grant Homes is proud to sponsor this years Butterfly Festival. Bring family and friends to meet butterflies, ladybugs, honeybees, and more. Kids enter a HUGE tent to meet and hand-feed over 500 colorful butterflies. WOW! New this year: we'll have a members-only early entry to the butterfly tent before the gates open to the general public.

Kids also make butterfly crafts, wear hats with moth or butterfly antennae, complete a scavenger hunt by learning something at each discovery station, and get their faces painted as the prize for finding all the answers!

There'll be storytelling, and kids dancing the waggle dance with the bees. Visitors will also enjoy many butterfly craft stations, face painting, the monarch puppet show, lemonade and hot dogs sold from the little playhouse, and a festive good time. Picadilly Puppets will bring their Butterfly Ballad, and Judy Leonard will serenade us with kid-favorite music. It’s the biggest event of the DNC year, a super fund-raiser and friend-raiser.

Discovery Stations for the Festival may include:

Butterfly Tent of live butterflies; Dancing the Waggle Dance of Bees, Termites; Moths vs. Butterflies; Monarchs; Compost Critters ; Butterfly Gardening ; Hummingbirds; Gardening information; Honeybee Hive with information; Dragonflies; Ladybugs, with a release of ladybugs in the gardens; Unfriendly insects ; Insect Mouths and Eyes ; Games in the Meadow.

Young festival-goers can take part in the release of live ladybugs into the gardens.

Butterfly Boutique

Items for sale at the Festival may include: Butterfly books; "Buggy" kids' clothing; Caterpillar kits; Honey; Shade-grown Coffee, Hot Dogs, Sodas, and Water.

ATTENTION GIRL SCOUTS!
JUNIOR GIRL SCOUT BUTTERFLY BADGE

Come to the Dunwoody Nature Center Butterfly Festival to earn your Council's own Butterfly Badge. Stop by the booth and get a checklist of your requirements and then visit the different stations. We have crafts, storytelling, nature information, puppet shows, games and a hugh tent filled with live butterflies.

Come with your troop or your family!