Milwaukee's Mitchell Park
Horticultural Conservatory
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Although you can’t come to the Domes right now, the Friends of the Domes has created this page to bring the Domes to you.
Each week we will add pages that can be colored any way you like to help learn more about The Domes.
We hope you are all doing well and enjoying some family time. We look forward to welcoming you back to the Mitchell Park Domes in the near future. Visit this page often as activities will be updated often.
Download these Michael Szesze Coloring pages of the following plants from the Carnivorous Plants Nursery.
Download the Venus Flytrap Flip Book by Michael Szesze and the Friends of the Domes Instructions on how to make it.
Have some fun with this Carnivorous Plants Word Scramble.
Download this Guide to virtual tours and Earth Day ideas and activities.
Download the PDF to make this cool rain stick from NASA. It’s a cool craft, a playable percussion instrument and a radical rainmaker made out of materials found at home. Make it sound like rain! And check out Mr. Pete’s Video on how he made it!
Download the PDF to make this simply awesome bird-feeder! You’ll need peanut butter, an empty toilet paper roll and some bird seed! Mr. Pete will show you step by step on how to make this in an upcoming video.
A Venus flytrap and its Victim!
Download to colorCape Sundew Drosera capensis
Download to colorYellow Pitcher Plant Sarracenia flava
Download to colorDesign your own show by drawing a path and your own flowers in the Show Dome.
Download to colorDraw a green hose from the faucet to every plant along the path. Troplcal plants need lots of water.
Download to colorThe Domes has six greenhouses where our horticulturists grow plants for our shows.
Download to colorThe Show Dome changes with each season. Springtime is full of hydrangeas.
Download to colorIt would be fun to watch the tropical birds in their natural habitat.
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