Elmo and friends tend a garden
"Sesame Street" favorites bring their green story to Liacouras Center.
![The gang goes green in "Sesame Street Live," playing through March 14. Dancing bugs and butterflies join the cast in Big Bird's garden, where Elmo and his pals have been accidentally shrunk by an impatient fairy.](https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/v2/NPRWYP2OBZGBZKGYG7LHNLX5QQ.jpg?auth=28ee308fceb3780ea22ced45b89557890430802fe4c3d4277a13cec1622d835f&width=760&height=507&smart=true)
Beginning Saturday,
Sesame Street Live: Elmo's Green Thumb
will be offering valuable lessons in life at the Liacouras Center through March 14.
Elmo and his sunflower friend Sunny, whom he has raised from a seed, help to tell the story. Sunny outgrows his pot and Elmo and his friends find him a home in Big Bird's garden. Fairy-in-training Abby Cadabby, played by Temple University student Laura Gillespie, tries to rush nature and casts a spell to make Sunny grow faster. She instead shrinks Elmo and his friends. While Abby Cadabby tries to reverse the spell, Elmo, Zoe, Telly, and the crew learn to explore Big Bird's garden as tiny people. They encounter characters in the garden including dancing ladybugs, butterflies, and grouchy beetles while learning about patience and the roles that creatures play in our ecosystem.
Creepy crawling things
You can challenge your fears and misconceptions at the Delaware Museum of Natural History's exhibit "Tarantulas: Alive and Up-Close" through May 30.
Twenty live tarantulas from among the more than 900 species are featured in the exhibit, including the goliath bird-eating tarantula, the largest in the world. Visitors can learn about attributes that help tarantulas survive, and take part in hands-on activities such as the "Name That Tarantula" identification and the "Tarantulas of the World" interactive world map. Climbers who tackle the "Tarantula Burrow" can take photos.
Junior spring training
Children 5 and younger and their caregivers are invited to Spring Training on Saturday by Smith: Kids' Play Place in the Park and the Junior League of Philadelphia.
Kids can celebrate the coming of spring while engaging in physical activities - playing soccer, participating in a cheerleading clinic, playing parachute games - at this free event.