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Get Outdoors! – Map Making Merriment  

Get Outdoors! – Map Making Merriment  

Try your hand at another one of our popular activities: map making. This activity allows children to lead an outdoor adventure that will teach them to appreciate the natural world by using their senses and creating representations of their surroundings. Best of all,...
Winter 2024 Photo Contest

Winter 2024 Photo Contest

As Desert Botanical Garden gets ready to celebrate its 85th anniversary in February, we invite you to enter our winter photo contest. We want to see all the epic moments you have captured on our trails from the last 85 years. Submit your photos using the embedded link...
The Orange Home Presents: DIY Paper Towels

The Orange Home Presents: DIY Paper Towels

Tired of the cost, waste and effort of buying paper towels week after week? You’re not alone. Jessica Bui of The Orange Home shares her easy and delightfully sustainable guide to DIY reusable paper towels. Bonus: neutral tie-dye? Yes, please. Back to...
Activity | Plant Potions

Activity | Plant Potions

Create a magical potion from nature! Fairies and wizards are not the only potion makers.  Plants play a vital role in our lives. In fact, many modern-day medicines are derived from plants. Scientists are still learning all of the different ways plants can enhance our...
Paint with Water

Paint with Water

Objective: Explore evaporative properties of water in the desert through creative outdoor painting. One characteristic of a desert is a dry climate with a relatively high rate of evaporation. This is especially true for the Sonoran Desert, which in some cases, small...
The Garden is closed June 30 - July 6 for construction. Access to the Garden will be restricted, including bus routes.
We will reopen July 7 at 7 a.m.