Plan Your Weekend: Family Fun with Gingerbread Adventures
Posted in Exhibitions, Holiday Train Show, Programs and Events on December 4th, 2009 by Plant Talk – Be the first to comment’Tis the Season to Be…Gingery!
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Noelle V. Dor is Museum Education Intern in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. |
The holiday season is here, and the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden has cooked up a celebration of sugar, spice, and everything nice with its annual Gingerbread Adventures. While mostly everyone is familiar with the story of the Gingerbread Man and has seen (if not decorated and eaten) gingerbread cookies, many may not know the botanical and historical background of this favorite winter treat. I certainly didn’t.
As an intern in the Children’s Adventure Garden, not only do I get to work behind the scenes of this wildly popular program, I also get to join in on the adventure! Believe it or not, my previous experience with gingerbread was limited to enjoying the follies of Gingy, the gingerbread cookie character in the movie Shrek, and to helping create the “Gingerbread City” scene for a Candyland-themed high school play. read more »