Frolic: Discovery Garden Opening Festival

Butterflies won’t just soar at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday; they will also dance, parade and walk on stilts. The unusual means of locomotion come courtesy of Frolic, a festival to celebrate the opening of the garden’s new Discovery Garden for Children, a space with meadow, marsh and woodland habitats. The festivities — all free, as is garden admission all day — begin at the main garden’s Cherry Esplanade, where the artist and puppeteer Ralph Lee will have giant puppets from his Mettawee River Theater Company leading a Winged Rumpus; stilt walking and dancing creatures will be part of the fun. Children can follow a sonic scavenger hunt of global music on their way to the new Discovery Garden. Other activities will include nature walks, making bug antennas and building a giant scrap-sculpture dragonfly with the artist Javaka Steptoe.