Botanical Collection & Everglades Wildlife SanctuarySpecial Events
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Monday, May 27
Memorial Day KidzFest
9:30am - 4:30pm
A day just for the kids! This Memorial Day enjoy a pleasant day at Flamingo Gardens and Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary with complimentary games, activities, and entertainment for the young ones- including free pony rides in the gardens from 11am-3pm, Otter John and his animal friends, special Wildlife Encounters, bounce house, a kid's merchandise fair, and more.
Best of all, Children 4-11 get in for half price!
June 1-2
Rooti Tooti Tropi-Fruity
9:30am - 4:30pm
Kick off the summer fruit harvest with Flamingo Gardens' Rooti Tooti Tropi-Fruity Festival with tropical and rare fruits and vegetables plants for sale. Take a guided tour of Flamingo Gardens' fruit trees and get growing tips from the experts. Enjoy live music while eating tropical fare from Tropical Palate. Enjoy interactive cooking demonstrations with 12 year old Chazz Darby Co-author of My Own Food and his co-author Mom, Dorette Darby, author of Tropical Palate Taste of Jamaica and Tropical Palate Taste of the Islands. Delight your tastebuds with Tropical fruit smoothies and treats. Kids will enjoy the Tooti Fruity Fun Zone.
Best of all, Rooti Tooti Tropi-Fruity Festival is a
Half-Price Weekend Event.
June 15-16
Featured Creatures
9:30am - 4:30pm
Fathers Day Weekend features strange and exotic "creatures" not normally seen at Flamingo Grardens. The one-weekend-only exhibit includes strange creatures like hissing cockroaches and tarantulas, great reptiles like the Burmese python and Brazilian Rainbow boa, and exotic mammals like the chinchilla and kinkajou. Underground Reptiles will be on hand at Noon each day to show you even more strange and exotic creatures. Kids, bring Dad to help make a "creature" craft, play a game, or even challenge him to eat a bug at the Edible Bug Station.
HALF PRICE WEEKEND!
Dad and the entire family enters for half price all weekend.
Memorial Day KidzFest
June 1-2
Rooti Tooti Tropi-Fruiti
June 15-16
Featured Creatures
Father's Day Weekend
July 4
Old Fashioned Fourth
July 20-21
Wet-N-Wild Weekend
August 10-11
Comics, Gaming, & Anime Festival
September 2
Labor Day Bird Festival
Harvest Festival &
4th Annual Scarecrow Competition
October 18, 19, 25, & 26
Haunted Nights
October 27
Story Time with the Good Witch
November 16
Swampfest
November 23
Benefit Flea Market
December 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22
Garden of Lights
December 14, 15, 21, 22
Santa's Little Helpers
