The Big Draw 2010

10-30am-3.30pm

Take part in the Big Draw, a nationwide drawing festival and celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity. The theme will be explored through collaborative and individual artwork and through science activities.

BIODIVERSITY UP CLOSE
Look down the lens of a microscope to see the amazing diversity of hedgerow plants. Observe the details that help botanists to identify plants. Make sketches and use these to create the microscopic view, which will form part of a collaborative art work and matching game.

HERBARIUM ART
The Herbarium at Kew holds a collection of some 7.5 million plant herbarium specimens. Come and find out what a herbarium specimen is and be inspired to make your own version to take away.

BIODIVERSITYLOG
Collect fallen items and add them to one of the logs displayed on the Chapel Lawn creating a piece of art which celebrates biodiversity. You could then attach your own message to our ‘blog’.

THERE’S MORE TO A HEDGE THAN MEETS THE EYE
(GO to the Mansion for instructions)
Visit a hedge at Wakehurst and discover its amazing biodiversity. Find out how to become a hedgerow surveyor and then recreate some of the hedgerow back in the Chapel.

PLANT A HEDGEROW
Using fallen leaves you have collected from the hedgerow encircle the Chapel with hedgerow art.

FLYING BOOKS
On Wednesday 27th from 1.00 to 3pm catch the flying books and be part of a collaborative sketchbook project taking place across Sussex.

ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT AUTUMN AND WINTER

ADVENTUROUS JOURNEYS
Visit the first of a series of natural play features in the garden. Play hide and seek in our willow Tunnels and Tents located between the Visitor Centre and Stables Restaurant.

FAMILY TRAIL
Pick up a Newsletter at the Visitor Centre and look for the family friendly trail. The trail, Meet the Champions is about some of the champion trees which can be found at Wakehurst.

FAMILY FUN LEAFLET
A discovery map with lots of fun ideas to do in the gardens can be picked up at the Visitor Centre.