Family Event | The Great Big Green Week

Saturday 7 June | 10.30am - 3pm Show all dates and times

Join us at the Herbert Art Gallery for a fun-filled family day celebrating The Great Big Green Week!

Drop In (Select Activities - Book Online) | Included with Admission

The Great Big Green Week is a heartfelt celebration of communities coming together to protect nature and take action against climate change. Join us at the Herbert Art Gallery for a special family day, where we’ll highlight the incredible efforts of people working to care for our planet whilst exploring creative and empowering ways to connect with nature and inspire lasting change. 

Funded through Art Fund, this family event will encapsulate ideas and themes inspired by The HERDS, a worldwide public art and climate action on an unprecedented scale, parading through cities from the Congo Basin to the Arctic circle, covering 20,000km.
 

Activities included with admission across the day: 

Wildflower Seed Bomb Making 
Bring the beauty of wildflowers into your world with this hands-on family activity! Learn about the importance of rewilding and how it helps restore natural landscapes, support our planet and enhance wellbeing. In our community garden, you can experiment with natural ingredients such as flour, soil, construction paper, clay, and powdered pigments to create your own seed bombs. These can be sown in pots, flowerbeds, or meadows, helping to bring vibrant colours and life to the local green spaces.

Wonderful Windowsill Planter Workshops
Get creative with your family and grow a windowsill garden this summer! Using recycled materials like egg boxes and milk cartons, create soil containers and plant cress or herb seeds. Add your personal touch with colourful embellishments like sequins, pom poms, and markers. Once complete, take your garden home, place it on your windowsill, and watch it bloom into a beautiful and sustainable display that helps to support our planet.

Butterfly Finger Puppets
Inspired by our natural history collection, visitors can create their won finger butterfly puppets to fly through our galleries. We will be encouraging visitors to write statements about how they can help to protect these endangered species for the future. This activity will also feature take home information sheets about how you can help to protect nature close to you.

Urban Nature Recording
Venture into our Community Garden space, where we will be supporting visitors to make a sound recording of urban nature. Inspired by activities from the Natural History Museum, we are interested in understanding how we discover the wildlife that exists in an urban environment. This will help us to better understand UK habitats and how to protect them. 

 

Additional Workshops (Booking Coming Soon) 

Stop-Motion Film Making with Lets Animate | Book Online - Coming Soon
Let’s Animate will lead a full day workshop for older children, aged 11-16, to create a short film that focuses on climate change, human impact on nature and the protection of local wildlife. This will be influenced by items from our natural history collection, for the purpose of teaching young people about insect species at risk of endangerment. Throughout the day, the participants will learn the art of prop making, stop-motion filming techniques, storyboarding and how to record voice overs for their final film.