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Item Description

Does your child have a green thumb? Then make a winning bid on this tote bucket full of fun surprises from Blithewold Mansion.  

Included in a jumbo purple tote bucket: 

• Four (4) one-day passes to Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum
• A Blithewold tour and history booklet
• Paper Recycling kit: This hands-on kit teaches the craft of paper making and recycling. Kit includes a 6 x 8 inch mold and deckle, supplies to make different patterned and textured bookmarks, a notebook, greeting cards and more
• Root Viewer: This hands-on kit teaches the craft of paper making and recycling. Kit includes a 6 x 8 inch mold and deckle, supplies to make different patterned and textured bookmarks, a notebook, greeting cards and more.
• Jill McDonald Fantasy Friends Finger Puppets: Set of 5 Fantasy Friends finger puppets - ballerina, princess, mermaid, maiden and unicorn. Felt puppets feature intricate detailing and embroidery
• Mommy & Me Stickers and Planting Stakes: This set will get your little seedlings started with planting and caring for their garden. Once it's in the ground mark it with a stake. Use a sticker if that's what you're planting or use a blank write on sticker for your planting choice. Either way it the end of a job well done. Add a little water and love and watch things grow together.
• A child-sized pair of Mud gardening gloves 
• Along with a few other surprises!

Blithewold, a 33-acre summer estate with grand views of Narragansett Bay, is nationally significant in American history as one of the most fully developed and authentic examples of the Country Place era. The property features a 45-room mansion filled with family heirlooms framed by a series of lovely gardens than range in character from mysterious to exotic, and from poetic to workmanlike. An exceptional collection of rare and unusual plants, specimen trees, an accessible greenhouse, and whimsical stonework project a character that is romantic, fresh and inspiring – and unique to Blithewold. Come…and be inspired.

Item Special Note

Blithewold, named in Yankee Magazine's 2010 Best 5 Public Gardens in New England is located on Narragansett Bay, 25 minutes east of Providence and 60 minutes south of Boston.  Winning bidder will make arrangements to pick up this package at RIZS offices or pay shipping costs.