Flying Colors Butterfly Festival
Saturday, July 13, 2013
10am – 3pm
Sunday, July 14, 2013
12pm – 5pm
$12 General Public/$8 CNC Members
CNC Members can purchase their tickets in advance beginning July 1 at the Visitor Services Desk
The Flying Colors Butterfly Festival delights everyone all weekend at the Chattahoochee Nature Center when the air fills with the beating wings of hundreds of beautiful butterflies!
Join us for this very important fundraising event for the Chattahoochee Nature Center!
BEAUTIFUL LIVE BUTTERFLIES
- Live Butterfly Releases—Thrill to the release of live butterflies on Saturday and Sunday
- Butterfly Encounter – Explore our live butterfly exhibit in a 20×20 walk-through exhibit where you will have contact with more than 200 free-flying butterflies!
CREATIVE BUTTERFLIES
- Butterfly Crafts and Face Painting – We have crafts for everyone! Come visit us in Kingfisher Kids can get their faces painted with beautiful butterflies and creepy caterpillars!
- Butterfly Sidewalk Art – Butterflies provide the perfect inspiration for our on-going art project. Create a “butterfly path” from the Ben Brady Lakeside Pavilion all the way to the “fairy village!”
- Fairy House Construction – Fairies are among us. Stop by the free play area and build a fairy house or gnome home during the Butterfly Festival. Fairy houses and gnome homes are made from nature objects for real and imaginary creatures. Nature materials provided; bring your imagination.
- Butterfly and Caterpillar Costume Parade – Come with your very best butterfly wings or your best caterpillar colors on and join us for our butterfly parade at the end of festival each day with grand marshal Ms. Chrysalis!
- Girl Scout Butterfly Badge – Scouts can complete the requirements for the Council’s Butterfly Badge by attending activities during the day. While the Girl Scout Butterfly Badge is not available at CNC – you can purchase a festival patch on the day of.
BUTTERFLY NATURALISTS!
- Butterfly Plant Sale – Find the perfect host plants and nectar plants to take home to your garden to attract butterflies to your backyard! CNC Horticulture volunteers will be on-hand at the plant sale and in the butterfly garden to answer your questions about how to attract butterflies and other pollinators to your yard!
- Calling All Butterfly Detectives – Get outside in your backyard and see what you can find! Download the Butterfly Observation Form here and bring to the Nature Exchange at CNC during the Flying Colors Butterfly Festival to receive a surprise from the Nature Exchange!
MORE FESTIVAL FUN!
- Live Entertainment
- Face Painting
- Head into our Discovery Center and explore!
- The Nature Exchange will be full of fun for the festival(because of the busy nature of the festival, we won’t be allowing trades to come in but if you have existing points to trade with, our Nature Exchange naturalists can help!) Stop by to view our insect and butterfly collections, jump in our butterfly changing room, color and insect, and MORE!
- Take a turn in our Butterfly and Insect Changing room to change from a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly.
- Visit our insect collection and learn fun insect facts!
LAST MINUTE DETAILS
- Please Carpool! There is limited parking in the CNC parking lot. There will also be free shuttle bus service available from St. Francis School near the corner of Willeo/Azalea and Highway 120.
- Please note that there is not an ATM on site. Cash may be needed for some vendors including food
- Please note that pets are not allowed on the CNC grounds.
HELP US MAKE A SUCCESFUL FESTIVAL!
Vendor/Exhibitor Information: If you would like to participate in the Flying Colors Butterfly Festival, you can view our vendor/exhibitor information here. Forms must be completed and turned in by June 4th.
Questions? Contact publicprograms@chattnaturecenter.org or 770-992-2055 ext. 236.