Family Programs

5:30 - 7:30pm

Experience Family Science Nights at Butterfly Pavilion for the unbeatable price of $5 per person! At these events, you can explore our exhibits after hours and enjoy self guided activities at themed stations scattered through the exhibits! As a bonus, upon completing all activities, each family member earns a special sticker and enjoys a 10% discount in our gift shop! Make your family nights memorable with our affordable and educational after-hours experience! Registration required!

January: Metamorphosis

February: What do invertebrate families look like?

March: Women in STEM!

April: Biomimicry

May: Spring

June: Pollinators

Join Butterfly Pavilion in creating safe places for pollinators when you build your pollinator hotel on Father's Day! First, check out the native pollinators currently residing in Butterfly Pavilion's own pollinator hotels. Then, participants will be supplied with all the tools and instructions to build and decorate their very own pollinator hotel while learning more about native pollinators, who you can expect to use your hotel, and what more you can do to help protect and conserve all pollinators.

Includes:

- 1 Pollinator Hotel Per family (you may request a max of one per kid)

- Exhibit admission for each person attending (waived entrance fee for members)

- Learn from one of Butterfly Pavilion's invertebrate experts

Join City of Westminster and Butterfly Pavilion's Urban Prairies Project in collecting valuable information about an incredible local open space. Westminster Hills Open Space boasts beautiful habitat characteristic to the short-grass prairie, and we need your help in collecting information about the plants and animals that inhabit it!

Join Saturday, June 15th from 9am-12pm for an organized BioBlitz using iNaturalist - no experience is needed, all necessary materials will be provided, and fun and educational guidance will be provided throughout the morning! Families welcomed and snacks provided.