Roots, Shoots, and Barrels: A Family Weekend September 24, 2011

Join us for a family-friendly weekend full of hands-on activities and engaging events! Make a mini-greenhouse. Design your own unique leaf print. Create a book arts project with artist Rosae Reeder. Roll a seed ball. Taste delicious, one-of-a-kind ice cream flavors from Little Baby’s Ice Cream Tricycle. See Marshall Scheetz, a traditionally-practicing cooper from Jamestown Cooperage, LLC (Williamsburg, VA), make barrels the 18th-century way.* Take a unique tree tour of Old City with Ben Cromie, who will lead you on a journey through “The Mighty, the Stinky, and the Just Plain Pretty.”**

*Cooper demonstration on Saturday only
**Tree tours leave at 1pm (both days)

Official Website: http://www.apsmuseum.org/family-weekend/