The Enabling Garden in Altoona, IA, will host its annual Children’s Art in the Garden event from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The event offers multiple art activity centers for children, live children's music, and a StoryWalk® featuring the book, Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, by Kate Messner. 

This year's art and exploratory stations and activities include: 

• Birdhouse Painting 
• Dried Flower Bookmarks 
• Leaf Critters
• Googly Eye Rocks
• Flower Tiles
• Nature Cards
• Soil Story Bracelets
• Adopt a Bean
• Bug Barn
• Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge - Peat Pots with Seeds
• Imagination Garden Mural
• Social Drumming Interactive Activity

About StoryWalk ®

The Children's Art in the Garden event is offered by ISU, Polk County Extension through Polk County Master Gardener volunteers and the Human Sciences team. The StoryWalk® is designed for families to engage in literacy activities while also getting exercise, learning about content areas (STEM, art, social studies), and enjoying the outdoors. It is most appropriate for preschool to early elementary-aged children, but older children may enjoy reading to younger children and modeling the activities along the way. Storywalk was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT, and was developed with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.