Join artist Claire Taylor-Jones to create a beautiful Nature Journal throughout the year with our new series of monthly workshops, using objects in the handling collection as inspiration!

Each month we will concentrate on a different theme - join us for one or all sessions to build up your journal!

The hope of this workshop is to connect children with nature through the medium of art. We aim to build a foundation of simple skills, drawing and observing nature, to create a versatile and enjoyable activity for life-long cognitive and emotional enrichment.

These sessions will be based in the Wheatstone Hall and have an animal/plant ready for you to see on arrival! Your artist will spend a little time talking and looking at the animal/plant with you, then you can have a go drawing it and making any observation notes to the drawing - she will also chat about keeping a sketchbook/journal!

Times and Dates:

Workshops will run Saturdays towards the end of each month with the following themes:

Sat 27 June - Squirrel

Sat 25 July - Ammonite

Sat 22 Aug - Herring gull

Sat 26 Sept - Fox

Sat 31 Oct - Bats

Sat 28 Nov - Leaves

Sat 19 Dec - Holly

Sat 23 Jan - Jay

Sat 20 Feb - Thrush

Sat 27 Mar - Daffodils

Sessions will take place for the following age groups at the following times:

2-3pm (under-16s)

3-4pm (over-16s)

Places:

10 people

Prices:

£5 per child (£8 for 2 children, £10 for 3 children) Parents and carers go free!

Museum location:

Wheatstone Hall

Please note:

• There are two sessions running per workshop day: Workshops for under-16s at 2-3pm and for over-16s at 3-4pm. Please choose the correct session when booking (parents and carers go free when accompanying under-16s)

• The under-16s session is suitable for ages 5-16 - all participants under 16 years old must be accompanied by an adult

• All materials provided

• You do not need to attend all sessions, but attending as many as you can will give you the fullest journal!