Using a range of craft materials and a humble shoe box, create a world of your own design, themed around one of the areas linked to some of Saffron Walden Museum's most popular museum displays: The Stone Age with a woolly mammoth, British wildlife with foxes and owls, or the land of the dinosaurs, incorporating fossils and perhaps a Plesiosaur?
There will be all sorts of materials to help you bring your scene to life!
Best suited for children aged 6+ years
Cost: £10 per child, Normal adult admission costs apply.
Decorate a paper plate.
Looking through the extensive ceramics collection at Saffron Walden Museum, with many designs on display, will you choose an elephant, lion, wild pig, or a garden bird for your eye-catching centrepiece?
Add metallic paint to the edging and doilies to create an intricate pattern.
Each session will be 30 minutes, starting at 10:30, 11:45, 12:30 and 2pm.
Best suited for children aged 4-12 years, younger children are welcome to join in with adult support.
Taking inspiration from a range of necklaces on display across the Saffron Walden Museum, create your own really wild necklace.
Which paint colours and beads will you choose from an array of materials?
Best suited for children aged 6+ years
Cost: £10 per child, Normal adult admission costs apply.
Please book your tickets in advance.
For more information, visit Saffron Walden Museum website.
Can you find the animals hiding in the meadow?
Weaving your own meadow scene, you will then cut and stick a range of creatures to hide in the grass.
You can then decorate the edge of the meadow with paper butterflies and draw vibrant meadow flowers. Taking inspiration from a wildlife diorama, which animals will you choose to include?
Each session will be 30 minutes, starting at 10:30, 11:45, 12:30 and 2pm.
Best suited for children aged 4-12 years, younger children are welcome to join in with adult support.
Why not spend some time looking at all of the beautiful bird species that are on display in the Saffron Walden Museum?
Then take inspiration from the incredible birds of paradise to make your own folded paper version, complete with plumes of curled tail feathers.
Each session will be 30 minutes, starting at 10:30, 11:45, 12:30 and 2pm.
Best suited for children aged 4-12 years, younger children are welcome to join in with adult support.
Cost: £2.40 per child, Normal adult admission costs apply.
Pre book or drop in on the day.
Professor Filbert is searching around the Botanic Garden because they have heard that humans have made some exciting discoveries about plants. Follow in the Professor’s pawprints and discover what incredible information they found.
Suitable for all ages 3+.
Children must be accompanied at all times.
Our annual open-air music festival from Cambridge Summer Music Festival will take place on Wednesday evenings throughout July on the Main Lawn.
Welcoming back some familiar performers as well as some new faces, this celebration of music and summer is a perfect opportunity to enjoy great music and the sights, sounds and scents in the Garden with family and friends on a July evening.
Come and find out all about worms, what they do, and how they do it! We will also create our own worm art for you to take home.
Ages 3 +
Children must be accompanied at all times.
Free child tickets for this event must be booked online. Ticket sales open one week before the event. Adults do not need to book to accompany however please note that adults will be required to pay for Garden entry on arrival.
Come and say hello to Saffron Walden Museum's famous lion, Wallace.
Wallace was the star attraction in Wombwell's travelling menagerie in the early 1800's, and he still attracts visitors today.
For this event, you will use Wallace as the inspiration for a fun craft activity, making roarsome lion bookmarks.
Each session will be 30 minutes, starting at 10:30, 11:45, 12:30 and 2pm.
Best suited for children aged 4-12 years, younger children are welcome to join in with adult support.
A day of creativity where participants will explore the gallery and its collection while taking part in exciting hands-on activities.
Throughout the day, participants will complete their own logbook to take home, and will receive an Arts Award Discover certificate around 4 weeks after the session.
This event is aimed at children aged 7-12.
Tickets are £15 per participant.
Participants must be accompanied by an adult. Limited places – online booking essential.
