Additional workshops scheduled through May include learning the hula, decorating a Hawaiian shirt, digging for shells, making leis, and learning about the wildlife of Hawaii.

This species was used to make leis and was brewed into tea.

Tropical flowers such as hibiscuses, orchids, and the maile, prized for making leis, grow in Hawaii.

As a child, she would often go to the palace of King Kamehameha V to make leis for him.

The 200 or so residents collect delicate shells to make leis that sell for thousands of dollars.

The species is still often used in making traditional Hawaiian leis.

Returning to the entrance past yellow strawberry guava trees and frangipani, whose fragrant pastel flowers are used to make leis, I felt the first splattering drops of a shower.

The shells of this species, known in Ni'ihau as kahelelani'ila'ula, are used to make leis.

We made leis, draped them around our necks and charged the tourists a quarter to take our photographs.

In Hawaii, the flower is known as pikake, and are used to make fragrant leis.