• Not available on Mondays when we are closed to the public.
• Self guided tours are free (unless an add-on is requested) from mid-December through March. Hours & admission info here: queensbotanical.org/hours_admission
• Title 1 discount does not apply

Explore Queens Botanical Garden at your own pace and investigate the specific exhibit areas that complement your needs and interests. Includes 10 adventure field guides, 10 pencils, and one QBG tote bag per group (only provided during paid season, April - mid-Dec). If you would like additional adventure guides for all participants, you may purchase for an extra $25 per group.

Upgrade with an optional seed planting kit add-on! One kit includes enough supplies for 30 participants to plant flower or bean seeds. The fee is $25 per group. Kits can be picked up at the visitor building and activity must be completed offsite, after your visit.

Please indicate if you would like either of the two add-ons when you complete the questionnaire booking form.

Visit the Garden with a guide. Our permanent and seasonal collections showcase a variety of environmental, botanical, and cultural themes.

Tours are all-outdoors in all seasons.

Visit the Garden with a guide. Our permanent and seasonal collections showcase a variety of environmental, botanical, and cultural themes. Tour portion is all-outdoors, dish garden planting is indoors.

Culminate your visit with a Dish Garden activity, for each participant to take home.

Reservations for add-ons require advance notice.

Visit the Garden with a guide. Our permanent and seasonal collections showcase a variety of environmental, botanical, and cultural themes. Tour portion is all-outdoors, craft is indoors.

Culminate your visit with a nature-inspired painting activity, using plant pigments, for each participant to take home.

Reservations for add-ons require advance notice.

Visit the Garden with a guide. Our permanent and seasonal collections showcase a variety of environmental, botanical, and cultural themes. Includes a culminating seed planting activity, led by your guide.

Tours are all-outdoors in all seasons.

Discover animal structures and discuss how and why they are created. Use craft and natural materials to create models of animal-made designs and discuss the impact of humans on their habitats.

In a guided stroll through the garden, observe and discuss the shapes, colors, size, patterns, and composition of the plants in our exhibits to inspire a mark making craft using natural pigments.

While exploring Garden exhibits, discover why plants are scented and how people use plant scents. Participants examine different botanical potpourri elements and create their own sample.

Are all bugs insects? Identify insect body parts using hands-on diagrams, model-making, and live insects in our garden. Participants apply what they’ve learned to create their own insect models to take home.

Discover the relationship of pollinators and flowers through observation of beehives and pollinators in our garden and how humans can help native pollinators thrive. Participants plant pollinator friendly seeds to bring home.

Discover how plants and their parts have adapted to survive in unique environments. Participants create a succulent dish planting for deeper understanding of a desert ecosystem.

Interact with our lush 1-acre Farm to learn about our growing processes and how we incorporate sustainability in a small-scale operation. Learning topics include irrigation, organic and sustainable practices, and composting. Includes a culminating seed planting activity.

What is compost, why is it important, and how do we use it? Explore the Garden to learn how compost is created and used, meet decomposers, and create an investigation tool to take a closer look at organisms that help reduce waste in our city.

Take a deep breath and let the garden and its landscapes guide participants in a series of meditative activities that explore nature, attend to emotional needs, and build deeper connections to peers.

Explore solutions to a changing climate and the steps we can take to make NYC greener. Visit our green building and sustainable landscapes to learn about urban water management, ecosystem restoration, energy conservation, and waste management. Culminates with a green roof model seed planting activity.

Stroll through the garden, meeting our collection of edible plants, exploring the names and functions of different plant parts and the role they play in our diets. Participants plant edible plant seeds.

Explore our tree collection, pausing to investigate trees, tree parts, and their functions, to inspire a seasonal tree craft. Autumn: “Colors of Fall”, Winter: “Evergreen ID”, and Spring: “Leafing Out”.

Explore how the garden’s landscapes interact with water and discuss what that means for the water cycle in the city, do hands-on modeling of water interactions, and create a self-watering terrarium.

Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: Up to 30 participants and 4 chaperones
Cost: $250
Led by a QBG instructor, these themed tours guide participants through an exploration of our garden exhibits, which include a hands-on activity to take home. Held all-outdoors, rain or shine.

Bugging Out
Are all bugs insects? Which insects are also pollinators? Discover the vital relationship between pollinators and flowers by learning how to identify insect body parts using models and live discovery while visiting various exhibits, including our Bee Garden. Participants plant flower seeds to bring home.

Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: Up to 30 participants and 4 chaperones
Cost: $250
Led by a QBG instructor, these themed tours guide participants through an exploration of our garden exhibits, which include a hands-on activity to take home. Held all-outdoors, rain or shine.

Grown on the Farm
Interact with our lush 1-acre Farm to learn about our growing processes and how we incorporate sustainability in a small-scale operation. Learning topics include irrigation, organic and sustainable practices, and composting. Includes a culminating seed planting activity.

Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: Up to 30 participants and 4 chaperones
Cost: $250
Led by a QBG instructor, these themed tours guide participants through an exploration of our garden exhibits, which include a hands-on activity to take home. Held all-outdoors, rain or shine.

Our Sustainable Garden
Explore solutions to a changing climate and the steps we can take to make NYC greener. Visit our green building and sustainable landscapes to learn about urban water management, ecosystem restoration, energy conservation, and waste management. Culminates with a green roof model seed planting activity.

Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: Up to 30 participants and 4 chaperones
Cost: $250
Led by a QBG instructor, these themed tours guide participants through an exploration of our garden exhibits, which include a hands-on activity to take home. Held all-outdoors, rain or shine.

Plants We Eat
Stroll through the garden, meeting our collection of edible plants, exploring the names and functions of different plant parts and the role they play in our diets. Participants plant edible plant seeds.

If you can’t make it to Queens Botanical Garden, we can bring our program to you!

Making Scents:
Discover why plants are scented and how people use plant scents. Participants examine different botanical potpourri elements and create their own sample.

Cost for Schools: $350 for 1 workshop. $300 each for multiple workshops scheduled on the same day.
Cost Non-School Groups: Starting at $400 per group

These workshops are participatory and must take place in a classroom with tables and chairs.

Example schedules (please indicate your preferred schedule when filling out the booking questionnaire form):

2 or 3 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am: class 1
11:00am - 11:45am: class 2
12:00pm - 12:45pm: class 3

4 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
11:00am - 11:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

2 to 3 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am: class 1
10:45am - 11:15am: class 2
11:30am - 12:00pm: class 3

4 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
10:45am - 11:15am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

If you can’t make it to Queens Botanical Garden, we can bring our program to you!

Bugging Out:
Are all bugs insects? Identify insect body parts using hands-on diagrams and model-making; discover garden critters and the roles they play. Participants create an insect model to take home.

Cost for Schools: $350 for 1 workshop. $300 each for multiple workshops scheduled on the same day.
Cost Non-School Groups: Starting at $400 per group of up to 25 participants

These workshops are participatory and must take place in a classroom with tables and chairs.

Example schedules (please indicate your preferred schedule when filling out the booking questionnaire form):

2 or 3 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am: class 1
11:00am - 11:45am: class 2
12:00pm - 12:45pm: class 3

4 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
11:00am - 11:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

2 to 3 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am: class 1
10:45am - 11:15am: class 2
11:30am - 12:00pm: class 3

4 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
10:45am - 11:15am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

If you can’t make it to Queens Botanical Garden, we can bring our program to you!

Fantastic Flowers:
Connect to your inner scientist and artist by applying your powers of observation! Participants dissect flowers and learn about the function of each part before creating floral-inspired art, using their knowledge of flower color, shape and form.

Cost for Schools: $350 for 1 workshop. $300 each for multiple workshops scheduled on the same day.
Cost Non-School Groups: Starting at $400 per group

These workshops are participatory and must take place in a classroom with tables and chairs.

Example schedules (please indicate your preferred schedule when filling out the booking questionnaire form):

2 or 3 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am: class 1
11:00am - 11:45am: class 2
12:00pm - 12:45pm: class 3

4 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
11:00am - 11:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

2 to 3 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am: class 1
10:45am - 11:15am: class 2
11:30am - 12:00pm: class 3

4 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
10:45am - 11:15am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

If you can’t make it to Queens Botanical Garden, we can bring our program to you!

Plant Part Art:
Explore plant parts and identify their functions, through art creations. Students will create artwork using materials such as pea flower, turmeric, mint, and other plant ingredients.

Cost for Schools: $350 for 1 workshop. $300 each for multiple workshops scheduled on the same day.
Cost Non-School Groups: Starting at $400 per group of up to 25 participants

These workshops are participatory and must take place in a classroom with tables and chairs.

Example schedules (please indicate your preferred schedule when filling out the booking questionnaire form):

2 or 3 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am: class 1
11:00am - 11:45am: class 2
12:00pm - 12:45pm: class 3

4 Pre-K classes:
10:00am - 10:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
11:00am - 11:45am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)

2 to 3 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am: class 1
10:45am - 11:15am: class 2
11:30am - 12:00pm: class 3

4 Three-K classes (shortened classes):
10:00am - 10:30am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)
10:45am - 11:15am - 2 classes (separate classrooms)