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Plants and Garden Family Pack
Discover some unusual plant stories, make your own plant potion zine and try colouring sheets and seed bunting activities. Why not head off on a minibeast hunt and make a paper butterfly?
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Make a Macrame plant hanger with Sarora Knots
Make your very own woven textile creations inspired by the artwork cotton.com by artist Lubaina Himid, one of the works featured in Sunderland Museum’s recent Received Wisdom exhibition, a National Partners Programme exhibition from Arts Council Collection.
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We Love Plants: Colouring Sheets
We Love Plants Colouring Sheets
The team at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens are passionate about plants…
Use these colouring sheets to discover some of our favourite plants that grow in Mowbray Park and the Winter Gardens: We Love Plants Colouring Sheets
Why not colour them in with pencils, pens or pastels?
For an extra fun art challenge you could cut them out and stick them onto a background to make your own creative plant collage, adding different bugs and animals that pollinate and feed on the plants.
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Plant Potions: How to make a plant spell book
Download the full activity worksheet here:How to make your own spell book
First of all, we need to create the book itself:
Once you’ve folded you’re book, you’re ready to start designing your plant potions…
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Plant Stories
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Create a Snowstorm
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The Sounds of Stormy Weather
Inspired by Antonio Frasconi’s artwork, ‘A Storm is Coming’, composer and sound designer Roma Yagnik shows us how to make our own stormy weather sounds with a rain stick!
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Rockpool Ramble with Durham Wildlife