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Gloucestershire / Arts and Crafts - Attractions and Days Out - Children's Activities - Farms and Zoos - Gardens and Nature - Parks and Green Spaces

Friday Froglets

Join our Friday Froglets Club for nature painting. Time: 10:30 – 11:30am Discover the different colours of nature with a colour walk before making your own nature paint and paint brushes to create a work of nature art! The activity will last approximately 1 hour and is suitable for toddlers primarily, but children up to preschool […]

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WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre

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Gloucestershire / Arts and Crafts - Attractions and Days Out - Children's Activities - Gardens and Nature - Parks and Green Spaces

Friday Froglets

Join us for our new Friday Froglets club. Sounds of wetlands Friday 6 January Time: 10:30 – 11:30am Come and learn about different bird calls and explore our discovery hide. Finish by making a tasty bird feeder to encourage the birds into your garden. The activity will last approximately 1 hour and is suitable for toddlers […]

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WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre

Added 2 years ago

Gloucestershire / Arts and Crafts - Attractions and Days Out - Gardens and Nature - Parks and Green Spaces - Wellbeing

Wild Winter Weekend

A celebration of the wildlife that calls Slimbridge reserve home for the winter, and WWT’s 75+ year history. Date: Sat 14 & Sun 15 January On both days; Guides in the Hides, 9.30am – 3.30pm Head out on to the reserve and meet expert guides who will be on hand to help you identify the […]

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WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre

Added 2 years ago

Berkeley / Arts and Crafts - Children's Activities

Thursday Science Club for Autistic Children

A series of hands-on science and engineering workshops. Children can work at their own pace in small groups. Places are limited to 15 per session. Rockets and Travel to Mars January 12th 10am – 12.30pm January 19th 10am – 12.30pm January 26th 10am – 12.30pm During this 3 week project you will design and build […]

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Bloodhound Education Ltd

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Cotswolds / Children's Activities - Gardens and Nature - Parks and Green Spaces - Wellbeing

Winter Wonders – activity trail

Follow a trail through Silk Wood, enjoying a winter ‘sound hunt’ by listening for the wind blowing through the treetops, the birds singing and your footsteps crunching on leaves.                                                      […]

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Westonbirt the National Arboretum

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Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts

Jigsaw Linocuts, with Emily Bagnall

This linocutting workshop will provide a fab, fun and simple way of making a complex multi coloured block print from just one block of lino. Once carved the lino is cut like a jigsaw, inked and then reassembled before printing, there are however some useful tips and tricks along the way and some interesting options […]

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Artspace Cinderford

Added 2 years ago

Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts

Drawing the Figure from Life, with Cherry Lyne

A day of guided life drawing with a model. Starting with quick warm up sketching then gradually extending into longer poses. £60 All materials provided. Please bring a packed lunch To express your interest in a place, please contact Dan on 01594 825111 or email dan@artspacecinderford.org

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Artspace Cinderford

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Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts

Introducing Sculpture: David’s Eye, with Svilen Radev

Sculpture is the artistic process of creating shape and form in three dimensions. In this workshop you will be clay modelling and casting in plaster your very own David’s Eye – fragment of Michelangelo’s famous sculpture. Don’t worry if it’s your first-time stepping foot in a sculpture class, this workshop is completely beginner friendly and […]

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Artspace Cinderford

Added 2 years ago

Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts

Poppy Painting, with Yvonne Featherstone

Join Yvonne Featherstone for this one-day acrylic painting workshop where I will take you through a step-by-step tutorial on how to produce this beautiful poppy painting. We will be working on an A3 canvas and I will show you various application techniques to help you produce your own masterpiece. £45] All materials provided. Please bring […]

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Artspace Cinderford

Added 2 years ago

Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts

Processing Earth Pigments for Printmaking

Learn how to grind, sieve and muller raw ochre pigment to make watercolour paints and inks for printing in this one-day workshop. Participants will take home a set of unique prints as well as a small set of watercolour paints and inks that they have made themselves.  Suitable for all abilities. Nichola Goff is a […]

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Artspace Cinderford

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Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts

Portrait Sculpting, with Dorota Rapacz Dufort

Sculpting a portrait in clay is a challenge for this workshop. Our model will be seated opposite you, and we will take turns in modelling for each other. Sculpting is another way of observing life and training your eye and hand coordination. There will be an armature on which we will apply the clay into […]

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Artspace Cinderford

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Forest of Dean / Arts and Crafts - Wellbeing

Mindful Photography, with Andy Squiff

This is not a technical workshop, you can bring any camera that you regularly use, including your phone. Before we start taking any shots we will take time to relax using breathwork and qi gong to help us awaken our senses and connect with our environment, discovering new ways to look at the world and […]

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Artspace Cinderford

Added 2 years ago