Blooming into action

Wildwood hosts free games, arts and cultural activities

Wildwood Park for the Arts hosted a Community Day: Spring Celebration on March 27.

The free event included games, springtime crafts and activities for children in the Bruce Garden, a scavenger hunt and, of course, walking the trails and enjoying the daffodils and other spring blossoms.

The 105-acre park and botanical gardens and the Lucy Lockett Cabe Festival Theater provide Central Arkansas a variety of cultural arts including visual, performing and horticultural through programming and education.

Forthcoming events include Music in the Wild, an outdoor concert featuring guitarist Richard Smith on May 1; and Rodney Block and The Rodney Block Collective on June 4.

Cousins Chase Campbell, Campbell Grace Appleberry and Reese Campbell on their way to fish in the park’s lake

Molly Rodriguez with her sons, Dominique and Lex, and Monique Fierro with her daughters, Mila and Olivia

Sharyn Davies and Eshaal Nadeem assist with crafts.

Tula Pruitt with her children, Hardy, Sam and Rowan

Barrett Bourdo

Adam Golden and his daughter Riley

Roman Walker with his great-grandmother, Lynn Nalley

Some of the many daffodils along the park’s paths

Sara Mahmoudian