Important! Tickets are FREE but limited - Please register! 🎟

Please click the link (link is also in campaign on top right of page/under Supporters tab if using mobile phone) and read the liability waiver & photo release form to give consent and secure your free tickets*

Link to Liability waiver

Link to Photo release

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Please register ALL attendees, including children of all ages*

Come play with us! 🌞

Join Sunflower for our free, annual community celebration of Play + Nature + Art, and help build a giant Ice Castle 🏰

Remember Play? Blow bubbles, kick balls, roll hula hoops, build cardboard box houses, run through obstacle courses and play outside at our old-fashioned Play Day!

Due to the overwhelming popularity of Ice Castle, and rapidly increasing crowds over the past several years, this year we're requiring that everyone - age 5 and older - reserve a ticket in order to attend. Tickets are limited.

We will be in the “meadow” at:

Patch Reef Park, 2000 W Yamato Rd., Boca Raton, FL

Parking Information: Please skip the front parking lots and park in the back of the park (near our pavilions or further back) as there will be lacrosse games happening in the front of the park. 🚗

What to bring to Ice Castle?

🌻Homemade Ice Creations ❄️

We'll be building the Ice Castle base with four hundred 12-pound ice blocks (that's nearly 5,000 pounds of ice!) In addition, we encourage families to BYOI (Bring Your Own Ice) from home to add to the Ice Castle.

It’s tradition! Many families freeze ice at home and bring it to the Festival to decorate the top of the Ice Castle. People freeze ice in different shapes– using plastic containers or creative items like rubber gloves– and add objects from nature. Some interesting items we’ve seen frozen into the Ice Castle ice blocks: shells, flowers, leaves, watercolors and pine cones.

🌻Big Build Supplies 📦

Bring cardboard boxes, paper tubes, masking tape and other creative recyclables that kids can use to build what they choose!

Get a sense of the signature Sunflower and Build and Play experience, which emphasizes collaboration and child-led, imaginative play. Ice Castle offers a glimpse into the foundation of Sunflower, our everyday activities and provides a genuine feel for what Sunflower truly represents.

🌻BYO Snacks 🍎

This year, we will not serve any food. Water will be available and hot chocolate will be served after the building of the castle. We encourage you to BYOB - bring your own (water) bottle - which can be re-filled and help us reduce waste💧

🌻Bring some gloves, mittens or socks to protect your hands, the ice is cold! 🧤

A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the division of consumer services by calling toll-free, 1-800-435-7352 within the state. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the state. Florida registration #CH18855. Childcare License #50-51-1611005

Ice Castle Festival and Play Day 2026

By SUNFLOWER CREATIVE ARTS

Ice Castle Festival and Play Day 2026

Tickets are FREE! (*Registration Required*)

Tickets are FREE! (Registration Required)