This year’s SummerFest promises to be the best yet as families and the groups who serve youth come together for some outdoor, mid-summer fun in the Evergreen Arboretum. Spend the afternoon listening to music, playing games, arm painting, making art, learning about bugs and birds and going on a scavenger hunt in the gardens.

 Here is the list of participating groups and the activities they are planning:

1. Marco Cortes: Bi-lingual guitarist for children

2. Master Gardeners of Sno Cty: Bug Exploration activity

3. Imagine Children's Museum: Art activity

4. Girl Scout Troop #44342: Rock Painting activity

5. Tail Waggin’ Tutors: Reading to Trista, the Therapy Dog

6. Everett Garden Club: Seed planting activity

7. Pilchuck Audubon Society: Educational activity about birds

8. Vickie Stoke's Art Studio: Fun art activity

9. YMCA: Face and/or arm painting and a bean-toss game

10. Dawson Place: Child appropriate activity

11. Everett Public Library: Activity and Book Walk

In addition to groups participating on-site, Arboretum volunteers will have free items for families to take home. Sunnyside Nursery is providing free plants and Bartlett Tree Service has free coloring books to hand out. The Evergreen Arboretum has designed pictorial and written scavenger hunts too.

 We appreciate and acknowledge the generous support for the Evergreen Arboretum’s Family Fun Event series by Lamoureux Real Estate and Sunnyside Nursery.