By Carissa Cascio
With Spring fast approaching, the Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert will celebrate butterfly season with its first-ever Butterfly Release on Saturday, April 23 at 9 a.m. Participants will gather to release the butterflies they adopted and raised throughout the month.
Adoption day takes place on Saturday, April 2 at 9 a.m. Participants will receive caterpillar larva and will sign adoption papers with an agreement to bring the butterfly back to the Museum for the Butterfly Release and Earth Day Celebration on April 23. The week after adoption, on Saturday, April 9 at 9 a.m., participants will be invited back to the Museum to create a butterfly bungalow and learn about what’s happening inside their chrysalis. Finally, on Saturday, April 23 at 9 a.m., participants will gather to release the newly hatched butterflies.
“There have been a lot of exciting changes at the Museum lately and this event is a fun way to signify those, as well as educate children on a butterfly’s lifecycle,” said Carol Scott, Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert. “We look forward to many more interactive and educational events in the future.”
The day of the release will also serve as the Museum’s Earth Day Celebration with fun activities for all attendees. Additionally, through a partnership with The Living Desert, the first 200 participants who pre-adopt before April 2 through the Museum’s website will receive one ticket to the zoo’s butterfly exhibit.
Adoptions are $1 per butterfly larva. All participants will also need to pay for admission on the days they attend.
For more information, call (760) 321-0602 or to pre-adopt, visit www.CDMOD.org.
