Nature in Art’s Activity Days

2019

Museum and art gallery

dedicated to art inspired by nature!

Important Information

Nature in Art runs a variety of holiday activity sessions for

children throughout the year.

All cost just £6 and include entrance to the gallery for one adult and

one child.

All activities need to be booked in advance via:

www.natureinart.org.uk (Click the learning tab at the top of the page)

Please note:

If PayPal does not let you book a place then the session is full.

Our activities use age-appropriate materials and techniques. On

each of the Activity Day workshops, themes are adapted and run

at the following times:

10.30 - 12.00pm: for 3 – 7 years

1.00 - 2.30pm: for 3+ years

3.00 - 4.30pm: for 8 – 18 years

If you have any questions or have problems booking an activity

please email Catherine (Education Officer) who is more than

happy to help you.

education@natureinart.org.uk

Please keep checking our website, for information about Family

Fun Days, exhibitions and other events happening at Nature in Art.

*please note, the activities may change.

We are looking forward to seeing you here for fun and crafts.

Save the Dates!

FAMILY FUN DAYS!

We are delighted to say that we will be organising

three Family Fun Days throughout the year.

Monday 27th May

An Otter Experience

Daphne Neville will be here to share her passion

and knowledge for otters. She will be accompanied

by one of her furry friends for you to meet.

We will also be doing otter related art activities.

Saturday 20th July.

Walk with Hawks!

Come along for arts and crafts

based around birds of prey.

Walk with Hawks will also be here

and will bring some of their birds– hawks, falcons, owls - for you

to meet and learn about.

Friday 30th August.

Discovery Day!

Come along for an educational and fun day

with Cheltenham Science Group, who will

be demonstrating different science experi-

ments.

Summer Holidays.

Are you up for the challenge?

We will start the holidays with some fun challenges for you to

complete.

Wednesday 24th July

Boat Challenge Using only natural materials, found in our garden, we will

build a boat. Will your boat float? Will it be strong

enough to hold weight? Will it withstand waves?

Thursday 25th July

Egg Challenge. Birds are very clever and can make a nest to keep

their eggs safe. Unfortunately some nests fall out of

the tree and the eggs smash. We are going to think

about ways we can protect an egg from smashing

when dropped at a height.

Friday 26th July

Monet’s Bridge Challenge To finish the challenges we will be building a bridge over

Monet’s Lilly Pad Pond.

Will your bridge be strong enough to stay up? To support

weight?

Summer Holidays.

Masks are an easy, fun activity to do. We will look at making

different types of masks, using various materials and tech-

niques.

Tuesday 30th July

Bird Mask. To start the week we will make a bird mask and deco-

rate it using feathers.

Wednesday 31st July

African Inspired Mask. These colourful masks are inspired by African style masks. We

will look at how to make the mask symmetrical and the effects

that using different colours will have on the overall appearance.

Thursday 1st August

Animal Mask Choose from a selection of animal masks to make,

using card for the base and then materials to add

texture.

Friday 2nd August

Natural Bark Mask. Using only natural materials, found in our garden, we will design

a tribal style mask.

Summer Holidays.

Tuesday 6th August

Inspired by Michaelangelo. Michaelangelo spent years painting the Famous

Sistine Chapel and most of the painting he did lying

on his back.

We will be inspired by Michaelangelo and will paint a picture while lying on

our backs.

Wednesday 7th August

No Hands Needed! Not everyone is able to use their hands to paint, and the

paintings they create are amazing. We will be attempting to

paint without using our hands.—using our feet or mouths

instead. Let’s see what masterpieces we can create.

Thursday 8th August

Foil Art. Using sharpies to colour on foil creates these stun-

ning metallic pictures.

Friday 9th August

Mixed Media Animals. Animals come in all shapes and sizes and have different

textures, patterns, colours etc. We will make mixed media

animals and create texture using different materials.

Art with a difference. To start the week we will look at ways

artists have had to adapt in order to paint.

We will then finish by using different materials to create differ-

ent effects.

Tuesday 13th August

Plastic Flowers. We will be looking at how to turn a plastic bottle

into a flower. We will create hanging and standing

flowers.

Wednesday 14th August

Magazine Bowl. Magazines are fun to read and when finished we can use them

to create useful things like bowls.

Thursday 15th August

Hot off the press! Newspapers are not just for reading and can

be used for more than papier mache. We will

be creating different things from flowers to

pencil pots.

Friday 16th August

Ocean Collage. Earlier this week we upcycled the bottle, now we will be using

lids to create an ocean collage. We will each create an individual

piece and add them together to make a community picture.

We can all do our bit for the environment by recycling our waste or

up cycling things so that we don’t produce as much waste. In this

week we will use our artistic talents to up cycle different materials.

Summer Holidays.

Summer Holidays.

The Artist in Residence this week is Liz Brooke-Ward, who is a tex-

tile artist and creates amazing pieces using fabrics.

This weeks activities are inspired by this and we will be using different

fabrics to create our own textile art.

Tuesday 20th August

Flower Batik. Starting with a favourite.

Using hot wax to create the outline and fabric paints to

colour the picture we will make stunning flower pictures.

Wednesday 21st August

Fabric Bowl. We will be making a papier mache bowl, but instead of

using newspaper, we will use pieces of fabric, making your

bowl instantly attractive and colourful.

Thursday 22nd August

Felt Flowers. Flowers instantly brighten a room. Using pieces of felt we

will make these beautiful flowers which will last longer than

living flowers. Maybe a gift for a loved one?

Friday 23rd August

Wet Felting. You will be introduced to the medium and how the

felting process works. You will then create your own

beautifully tactile felt picture to understand and

explore the process fully.

Summer Holidays.

Mother Nature is a beautiful thing and has inspired the work of many

artists.

We will be using natural resources as a base for our activities.

Tuesday 27th August

Feather Mobile. Feathers come in all shapes, sizes and colours. We will

be using feathers to make these effective mobiles.

Wednesday 28th August

Rock Art. Rock art has been around for years. We will look at different

ways we can use rocks to create art—painting them, using them

in pictures, collaging with them. Simple yet effective!

Thursday 29th August

Patterns in Nature. Wherever you look in nature you will find patterns—

spots, stripes, spirals etc. Using different materials we

will try to recreate some of these patterns.

Friday 30th August

Family Fun Day—Discovery sessions. No need to pre-book!

Come along for a day full of discovery and cool experi-

ments and demonstrations.