Nature Play Day

Nature Play Day

March 14, 2026

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Let’s play outside! The Arboretum’s Nature Play Day provides the opportunity for children and families to connect through exploring and playing outdoors together. Along with a Spring Wildflower Walk guided by our ecoEXPLORE team, this year’s festivities will include fairy house and gnome home building, stick fort building, storytelling, pond life exploring, and much more. Feel free to dress up as fairies, gnomes, animals, or anything nature-themed! Face painting and fairy hair will also be available to complete your look.  Join us as we rekindle our childlike imaginations with a day spent celebrating the magic and splendor of the woods!

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Special thanks to Community Partner WithersRavenel for sponsoring Nature Play Day.

This event is part of Spring Into the Arb! Celebrate the return of spring with a series of events and happenings throughout March, April, May and June! Spring is a time of renewal and emergence, and The North Carolina Arboretum is excited to welcome this season with plant shows, nature programs, education, music, art and more!