Winter Solstice Cauldron: FestiviTea

• Ages and length: Grades K–3 · 60 minutes
• Price: $200 per class, plus $4 per student for take-home makes
• Max participants: One classroom (up to 25 students)

Celebrate the longest night by mixing Solstice FestiviTea, a cheerful winter blend of dried apple, rose hips, chamomile, cinnamon, and cranberries. Nothing is tasted at school: each child blends a jar to steep at home with a grown-up.

One make per session: Solstice FestiviTea.

What we make and do

• Herb Highlight: Rose Hips: round red fruits that grow on rose bushes after the petals fall. Look closely and feel how hard and wrinkly the dried hips are. Long ago, people called them little lanterns left by the roses to guide travelers through winter’s darkness, and they are packed with vitamin C
• Mash the Rose Hips: crush them with a mortar and pestle (seeds and hairs already removed)
• Sniff and Blend: add dried apple, chamomile, cinnamon, and cranberries to your jar, sniff each one, and shake
• Take It Home: your FestiviTea jar with a recipe card to steep with a grown-up

NGSS: 2-PS1-1

Winter’s Wildflower Spa: Bath Snow

• Ages and length: Grades K–3 · 60 minutes
• Price: $200 per class, plus $4 per student for take-home makes
• Max participants: One classroom (up to 25 students)

Make Bath Snow, a plant-based bath powder that turns bath water into a creamy, cloud-like swirl. Our herb highlight is marshmallow root, a soothing root that turns silky and slippery in water.

One make per session: Bath Snow.

What we make and do

• Herb Highlight: Marshmallow Root: a root that grows in soft, marshy ground, dug in autumn and dried for winter. Feel the dry powder, then add a few drops of water and feel it turn smooth and slippery (herbalists call this goo mucilage). Fun fact: the very first marshmallows were made from this root, over 4,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt
• Make the Snow: watch castile soap turn into “freshly fallen snow,” then add oat flour and coconut milk powder
• Scoop and Shake: add marshmallow root and arrowroot powders to your jar, screw on the lid, and shake
• Take It Home: with a how-to card: about 1 cup in the tub as it fills, with a grown-up

NGSS: 2-PS1-1

Potion Lab: Color-Changing Flower Science

• Ages and length: Grades 2–5 · 60 minutes
• Price: $200 per class, plus $4 per student for take-home makes
• Max participants: One classroom (up to 25 students)

Students become flower scientists, making Violet Petal Syrup and testing how lemon changes its color from blue to purple to pink.

One make per session: Violet Petal Syrup.

What we make and do

• Meet the Violets: look, smell, and predict the color
• Color Magic: add lemon drop by drop and record the color change
• Take It Home: your violet blend with a recipe card to make with family

NGSS: 5-PS1-4, 2-PS1-1

Wildflower Spa Sensory Lab: Meadow Sachets

• Ages and length: Grades 2–5 · 60 minutes
• Price: $200 per class, plus $4 per student for take-home makes
• Max participants: One classroom (up to 25 students)

A science lab for the senses. Students explore herbs by smell, color, and texture, then blend their own Meadow Sachet.

One make per session: a Meadow Sachet.

What we make and do

• Herb Sniff and Sort: by smell, color, and texture
• Blend Your Sachet: mix and tie up your meadow blend
• Take It Home: with a how-to card

NGSS: 2-PS1-1

Welcome to the Goldenrod Village: Schoolyard Pollinator Science

• Ages and length: Grades K–5 · 60 minutes
• Price: $200 per class
• Max participants: One classroom (up to 25 students)

Students head outside to meet the bees, beetles, and butterflies living on goldenrod, and learn to tell goldenrod from ragweed.

Choose one activity per session: Pollinator Patrol or Goldenrod Village Treasure Seek.

What we make and do

• Meet Goldenrod: an herbalist’s look, and how to tell it from ragweed
• Into the Village: your chosen activity in the goldenrod patch

Held outdoors on school grounds; best September to early October.

NGSS: K-LS1-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1, 4-LS1-1

Wild Wonder Author Assembly: Plant Magic Through the Seasons

• Ages and length: Grades K–5 · 30 minutes (K–2) or 45 minutes (grades 3–5)
• Price: $400 per assembly
• Max participants: Up to 150 students

Clinical herbalist and author Erica Marie Coston takes students on a picture-filled trip through the seasons with The Book of Wild Wonder. Student volunteers help with a little kitchen-cauldron magic on stage.

What we make and do

• Color-Changing Violet Potion: watch blue turn pink
• Forest Fairy Sprinkle: sniff the secret ingredients
• Wild Seek: a seasonal nature hunt to take home

Wild Wonder Live! A Virtual Kitchen-Cauldron Visit

• Ages and length: Grades 1–5 · 30–45 minutes
• Price: $150 per program
• Max participants: Up to 3 classrooms (about 75 students)

Erica brings her kitchen cauldron to your classroom screen with live, color-changing plant demos and plenty of time for questions.

What we make and do

• Blue Flower Popsicles: a blue drink that turns purple
• Violet Petal Syrup: flower color science
• Moonlit PositiviTea: write a wish for tomorrow

Live on Zoom or Google Meet.