To avoid disappointment, please book well in advance of desired date!

• Run by two experienced volunteer docents.
• Children make a nature craft (take-home party favor).
• Two hours long; weekdays and weekends, depending on cabin and docent availability.
• Offered late August through May.
• $125 fee for Monday - Friday parties; $150 fee for Saturday and Sunday parties.
• Features walk in the woods, pond dipping, nature games and craft
• 16-child maximum (including birthday child).
• Parents furnish all food, paper goods, utensils.
• Suitable for children 4 - 10 years old.
• Please contact Bethany Foshee, Guild Coordinator, at 713-464-4900 to schedule a party.

Please be kind to the environment when you plan your party!

Houston Audubon and the Audubon Docent Guild are environmental education and conservation organizations, and all of our programs support this mission. This flyer has some suggestions about reducing waste and making sustainable choices when planning your birthday party. Please let us know if you have any questions, or if you would like any additional resources.

Birthday Program Crafts

Ages 4-10 years

• Wildlife Valentines - Bread covered in peanut butter and bird seed, cut into heart shape, as a gift for the animals.
• Caterpillar - Multi-colored beads, threaded on pipe cleaner, with feelers.
• Frog - Cork with googly eyes and pipe cleaner legs - to float in the pond.
• Snake - Flat wooden ice cream spoons, bradded together and decorated, with forked tongue.
• Dragonfly - Clothespin base with iridescent wings and pipe cleaner legs.

Ages 6-10 years

• Bird's Nest - Crushed paper bag with pompon bird and clay eggs in moss.
• Butterfly - Clothespin base with foam wings and pipe cleaner legs.
• Indian Headband - Decorated cloth strip with fastener and feathers.
• Pasta Fossils - Realistic looking fossils made with pasta shapes and permanent sand mixture.
• Bat Mask - Detailed bat masks to color, cut out, and wear.

Ages 7-10 years

• Makin' Tracks - Plaster-of-Paris wall hanging or necklace with native animal track castings: raccoons, armadillos, possums, owls, woodpeckers, etc.
• American Indian Possession Stick - Small tree branch, decorated with an American Indian child's most prized possessions - beads, feathers, corn husks, yarn.
• Metamorphosis Stick - Eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly - recreated on a tree branch.