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Looking for some free fun? Visit the Timaru Botanic Gardens? Complete our Scavenger Hunt Challenges to find out what kind of explorer you are. As well as 7 activities, there is also a handy map to find your way to new corners of the gardens that you may not have explored before. Pick up your FREE Scavenger Hunt Map from the Timaru Information Centre, The brochure stand inside the Fernery at the Timaru Botanic Gardens. Or download some of our free activity sheets:

Bucket List

Code Breaker

Bush Bingo

Seed Search

Pick up your free Scavenger Hunt and find a WuHoo!

WuHoo Snap & Post Challenge

Make art in the park

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Make art in the park. Take some paper and crayons to the Timaru Botanic Gardens, find some fallen leaves, trace the outline and draw the veins on or try a leaf rubbing. This is one if the challenges on the #WuHooTimaru Bucket List. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Chat to a Cockatoo

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Chat to a Cockatoo. Will the sulphur crested cockatoo watch you with it's beady eyes as you bob up and down? Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Point to pine cones in Pintum

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Point to pine cones in Pintum. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Spy pollinators that buzz

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Spy pollinators that buzz. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Hide painted rocks in the Sunken Garden

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Hide Painted Rocks in the Victorian Sunken Garden. The Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain amongst the garden beds used to reside in front of the Timaru District Council unti lit was shifted in 1960.

Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Find the Metasequoia Dawn Redwood

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the Metasequoia Dawn Redwood. Thought to be extinct 2 million years ago, the last 100 trees were discovered in China, and seeds made it all the way to little ol' Timaru, where this beautiful tree was established and stands today. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Sizzle a feast

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Sizzle a feast. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Find the chocolate tree

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the chocolate tree. Have you found the chocolate tree? It was planted in 1946 by the Glouster Gates. Not only are the seeds used as a substitute for chocolate, but the seeds formed the basis of the carat weight system still used by Jewelers today! Mmmmmm carob! Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Find the cabbage tree that pre-dates Europeans

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the cabbage tree that pre dates Europeans. Did you know this cabbage tree at the Timaru Botanic Gardens is so old, it could be pre the arrival of Europeans to Timaru! Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Spot the Dutch Elm that's over 150 years old

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Spot the Dutch Elm that's over 150 years old. Yep as old as the Timaru Botanic Gardens - when Timaru become a borough! Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru

Find the John Lennon Tree

Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the John Lennon Tree. Have you seen the John Lennon tree at the Timaru Botanic Gardens? It was gifted by Classic The Hits and 98 Port FM Radio in his memory. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru