{"id":188811,"date":"2026-05-10T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188811\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:35:06","slug":"families-make-art-for-mothers-day-at-phillys-magic-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188811\/","title":{"rendered":"Families make art for Mother\u2019s Day at Philly\u2019s Magic Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>About 15 years ago, Kim Lanciano took her mom to Philadelphia\u2019s Magic Gardens for <a href=\"https:\/\/billypenn.com\/2026\/05\/07\/philly-first-mothers-day-founder-firstival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mother\u2019s Day<\/a>. This year, she brought her own children to the facility to make art. Her 4-year-old daughter Josie made a bandana that she\u2019ll give to her mother.\n<\/p>\n<p>Every two weeks, the gardens, at 1020 South St., hosts PECO Family Jams, a free, monthly, hands-on event for visitors to make art.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Remsa, of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, and her husband John met while students at the University of the Arts and also visited <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/episodes\/studio-2-extra-mosaic-remembering-isaiah-zagar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the gardens<\/a>, but they came on Mother\u2019s Day to bring their children Gavin, 9, and Wynne, 6. \u201cI always thought this place was pretty cool,\u201d said John.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Wenyue Lu, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, brought her two sons Brian, 5, and Jessie, 8, as well as a friend\u2019s daughter, Andrea, 7. As the children made their art, Lu said, \u201cThey\u2019re enjoying themselves, and so am I.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Caruolo, of Essex, New Jersey, brought her daughters Olivia, 8, and Emily, 5, to the gardens \u201cbecause it\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day, it\u2019s my father-in-law\u2019s birthday, it\u2019s my birthday.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Olivia said she made a bandana for her grandmother\u2019s dog. \u201cShe\u2019ll probably hate it,\u201d she said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77318,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-188811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mothers-day","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}