" May I grow so tall and bright,
So free and wild,
So Brave and Vibrant,
That when you see me standing, You think I am a sunflower"
- Gaby Comprés.
This monthy themed gardening club is suitable for parents with toddlers(ages 1-4) -fun, practical, and nature connected in everyway! A great first step into the great outdoors, while also giving parents the opportunity to socialise with other parents over a coffee.
Every session includes activties to suit diverse learning and sensory styles - a gentle nature warm up and exploration, active physical expedition, creative plant crafting, practical gardening activity, and mindful plant yoga wind down.
T he Victorian Walled Gardens offers a safe and friendly space for little toddlers to find their own way, especially if shy. There are lots of nooks and crannies for little ones to feel at ease, create their own adventures and make friends. We encourage all the toddlers to bring along their own Teddy Bear to help us with your gardening on the day.
Cost: Parents and toddler ticket is: €13 (+ Eventbrite fee) - This includes a 10% discount to use at our garden shop, coffee or tea for parents on arrival plus take home garden craft for your toddler.
An annual ticket is €125 and grants access to all 12 of our seasonal sessions.
January is for slowly entering the gardens...- lets move like a snail, breath in the new year, build amazing eco-spiral snail homes and make some edible seed slime..... take a big new breath..1,2,3.... make new year wishes by sowing some baby greens to gift or take home, and making and sharing some watercress sandwiches with our teddy bears, after all the hard work! 🐌🌱🌱🌱🥪
February is for getting ready for spring! - lets switch to the new nature rhythm with bamboo stick drumming, lets share the fresh energy with teddy bear and woodland tree hugging and bark paper rubbings, and lets not forget all the soil action under our feet - lets roll and slide around the ground, and make magic mobile swirling earthworms and snakes to hang up and celebrate the Chinese new year too - the hissing year of the snake! 🥁🎵🐍🌳
March is for coming out into nature - Peekaboo! times with the teddy bear and tortoise -hide and seek around all the new flowers, make colourful tortoise shells with your favourite nature patterns and tip toe around tulips with your teddy bear - and craft your very own window sill tulip garden, for you to enjoy as you view nature every day with your teddy bears and friends! 🌷🌷🌷
April is for fun Bunny bouncing, making big bunny ears to listen to all the new nature buzzes, squeeking and hawking around the gardens.............and lets go on a great Easter Nature Hunt expedition - in and out , and all around the blossoming trees...we will make a nature flower basket to carry home all our easter eggs and foraged surprises! 🐰🧸🥚🥚🌸🌸🍃
May is a buzzy month - there is a lot to do, we must feed the Hungry Caterpillar too! Lets groove along the nature trail like a great big caterpillar - make caterpillar potato prints, sow juicy leafy seeds and harvest some yummy lettuce leaves for the very very hungry caterpillar, and all your teddy bears, friends and family too! 🥬🥬🥬🥗
June is for getting fizzy in a Sunny Day - make nature binoculars to search for our dazzling dragonflies, making buttercup suncatchers, daisy chain necklaces and dandelion magic friendship bracelets. Quench our thirst and make a fruity drink together - we will pick and throw into a big cup, all our favourite fruit and herbs from the garden! Let us make spectacular summer memories - that stretch all the way into the sunset! 🦟🌼🌼🌼🔭🕶🌅
July is for reaching for the sky, spreading your Wings, making nature dreams come true! - it's time to make rainbow butterfly wings and make beautiful butterfly swimming pools, swirl our twigs in an amazing summer sensory sun bath and mush and mash some fruits, for our nectar dessert. 🦋🦋🦋🌈🍨🍧
August is for a spectacular feast - picking raspberries and making jammy sandwiches with our teddy bears, making mini lady bird secret gardens and ant hotels, and a huge flower mandela to spread the joy far and wide! 🐞 🐜🏵
September is all for making a wild howl, returning to the wild and hooting like an Owl - lets make lots of wise owl crafts to bring home and lets make some wild meadow seed bombs too - to lead the way, into a brighter future for our planet earth! 🦉
October is for making woohooooo nature magic - lets make batty nature scavenge hunts and spells together around a nature cauldron, lets craft bat dens, and nature wands and mini-pumpkin and leaf skeleton gardens too...to welcome in the spirit of all the amazing plants around us this year.🦇🧙♀️
November is for ouch! letting go - we will collect all the fallen leaves on a woodland walk and make leaf compost to feed the soil, so that our hedgerows can grow forever... and ouch! again, lets get crafty, and make some spiky hedgehogs and rusty fox collages. 🦔
December is for making lots of christmas presents for Nature - lets say a big thank you to Nature - lets make some Christmas seed pudding for the birds to hang on the trees outside, lets make some Chrismas carrot cake for Santas reindeers and lets make some Christmas leaf mulch stuffing for the soil - ho ho ho! Finally, lets make some christmas wish stars for our Christmas trees to celebrate! Hoorah - we have travelled together all through all the weathers, oh what fun it is!!! 🎄
W e are so excited to welcome all your little green fingers into our gardens!
