This years summer theme is nature and the outdoors, to encourage children to play and be creative outside.
Nature workshop
A nature art workshop for preschoolers this summer. Suitable for children 3-5 years old. Plant seeds, paper plant pots and flower masks.
Garden Friends
Help our garden friends out this year by creating homes and feeders from an exciting range of recycled materials.
Garden Print: Summer Flowers
Aimed at children aged 6 and over. Artist Julie Roberts will again lead the 'playing through print'. This great workshop will investigate a variety of different basic printmaking techniques through which the children will learn about shape, colour and texture. Wildlife and flowers will be used as inspiration. Prints can be made into banners, T-shirts or bags.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
This inspiring sculpture workshop will use the gardens as inspiration. Using your imagination you will create fantastic flowers, exciting plants, super sheds and flowing ponds. The workshop uses a mixture of materials to develop a decorative garden sculpture.
Make a Wormery
Use a old glass jar, some sand and soil to make a home for worms. Take them home feed them some vegetable scraps and watch them make compost.
Garden Pot Mosaics
Using your own designs and inspirations from the gardens you will learn the skills needed to create decorative planters.
Fantastic flowers and vegetables
Design and make your own seed packets. Invent you own edible plants. You and your children will be given a simple seed packet template and some ideas for creating your own plants.
Other Possible Themes
Summer
Lively Insects
Sculpture workshop
Butterfly Baggies Sculpture using bags
Insect/Plant Mobiles Using found materials
Wind Socks Using pond life as a theme
Trees are Terrific Wire sculpture
Bat Adventures Bat Boxes
Pond Building An underwater sculpture
Garden Journals/Diaries Simple book binding
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