Celebrate the Holiday Season with Family-Friendly Festivities at Wave Hill!

As the leaves disappear and sparkling snow coats the ground, bring your little ones to Wave Hill for festive holiday activities inspired by the beauty of nature in winter. Throughout the month of December, tote your creative kiddos along to four special holiday-themed Family Art Projects. The month kicks off with Season’s Greetings —inspired by the changing seasons, you’ll draw your own cold-weather tales in a variety of surprise, pop-up holiday cards. Next up is Colorful Candles and Winter Berries: learn how to decorate a candle with an inventive image of nature molded from wax, and then embellish your creation with boughs and berries. Then, at the Snow-Globe Gift Boxes FAP, create a winter wonderland snow-globe box from live evergreen boughs, shiny foil and natural objects like dried herbs and spices. Round out 2014 with Create Your Year—Hello 2015! Learn from gardeners, who plant according to the phases of the moon. Create your very own hanging calendar for the New Year at this program, now a Wave Hill classic.

Explore the magic of winter at the Winter’s Adornments Family Walk. After the Family Art Project on December 14, join naturalist and educator Gabriel Willow for a walk through the gardens and woodlands to investigate vibrant berries, colorful twigs and fascinating patterns. And be sure to bring music-loving children, ages eight and older, to a dazzling holiday performance by pianists Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank. Already Wave Hill favorites, the two pianists return to Armor Hall to share the wonder of the winter season with a four-hand arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker Suite.

Events are free with admission to the grounds unless otherwise stated. 

What: Holiday Fun for Families

Where: Wave Hill, West 249th Street & Independence Avenue

Schedule: 

Family Art Projects, Saturdays & Sundays in December, 10AM-1PM

• Season’s Greetings, December 6 & 7
• Colorful Candles and Winter Berries, December 13 & 14
• Snow-Globe Gift Boxes, December 20 & 21
• Create Your Year—Hello 2015, December 27 & 28

Winter’s Adornments Family Walk, Sunday, December 14, 1PM. Children six and older welcome with an adult.

Concert: Soyeon Kate Lee & Ran Dank, Sunday, December 14, 2PM. Children eight and older welcome with an adult. Ticket purchase required (see below).

Ticketing:

• Single Tickets:
  • $28 general admission, $15 child (ages 8‒18)
  • Wave Hill Member: $22 adult, $12 child
• Subscriptions:
  • Pick any 3 Concert Series performances for a 10% discount
  • Pick any 4 performances for a 15% discount

Purchase tickets online at www.wavehill.org or onsite at the Perkins Visitor Center. For additional information, please call 718.549.3200 x251.  Ticket prices include admission to the grounds.

The Family Art Project is generously sponsored by Target, with additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Sustaining support is provided by the Sally and Gilbert Kerlin Endowment for Environmental Science and Nature Education. Support for Garden Programs is provided by the Hagedorn Fund. The Performing Arts at Wave Hill are supported by the Cathy and Stephen Weinroth Commissioning Fund for the Arts.

Wave Hill, Inc. is an independent, non-profit cultural institution governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. The buildings and grounds of Wave Hill are owned by the City of New York. With the assistance of the Bronx Borough President and Bronx representatives in the City Council and State Legislature, Wave Hill’s operations are supported with public funds through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquariums Grant Program administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 

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