Becoming a Flower: Children & Teens Collage Workshops Explore Nature, Design, and Creative Expression

Elizabethtown, NY – Saturday July 12, 2025 — 

What do flowers communicate—and how might we do the same?

The Elizabethtown Social Center is pleased to present “Becoming a Flower,” a pair of imaginative collage workshops for children and teens led by designers Jean Brennan and Gracia Echeverria. These free workshops invite young people to explore how visual patterns in nature can inspire creative expression, community connection, and personal storytelling.

Through creative, hands-on art-making with everyday materials —collage, stamping, hand-drawing, and photocopying—participants will create “flower flyers”: handmade posters that carry messages, just as real flowers use shape, color, and pattern to communicate with the world around them. Drawing inspiration from flower biology and pollination, the workshops explore how art and ecology can intersect in playful, meaningful ways.

Children’s Workshop:
Saturday, July 12, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
No registration required
Families are invited to drop in at any time during this informal, hands-on session. Children will use collage and markers to design their own flower-inspired flyers in an open, welcoming environment.

Teen Workshop: “Posters as Pollination”
Saturday, July 12, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Free with pre-registration -
This 90-minute workshop includes a guided exploration of flower forms as communication systems, a short reading or reflection, and a collaborative flyer-making activity. Teens will consider how their own messages might "pollinate" ideas and inspire action in their communities.

The result? A personal message in the shape of a flower—ready to be shared.

Hosted at the Elizabethtown Social Center (7626 US Route 9, Elizabethtown)

This program is free and all materials are provided. For more information and to register for the teen workshop, please visit: https://www.elizabethtownsocialcenter.org/event-details-registration/becoming-a-flower-children-teens-workshop. 

 Contact us at 518-873-6408 or news@elizabethtownsocialcenter.org with any questions.