Want to explore the exciting hidden play areas of Westonbirt Arboretum? Download your Naturally Playful trail play map, or pick one up on site from the Great Oak Hall information point, 10am - 4pm.
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Wooden wonders
Tues 14 - Thurs 16 Feb, 10:30 - 3pm
Celebrate one of the most remarkable materials on the planet – from how it grows to the surprising ways we use it! Then model with sawdust, create a wood block print design and build a mini hurdle.
The RSPB will be joining us for Tues 14th and Wed 15th, making fat feeders for you to take home to feed the birds in your garden.
Easter Challenge
Tues 3 - Fri 6 April, 10:30 - 3:30pm
Can you complete Westonbirt’s Easter challenge? Follow a trail of clues around the arboretum, explore the early signs of spring and solve our spring riddle for a sweet reward. Create a spring mask, magic wool flowers and make an Easter or spring card for someone special.
Jurassic plants and other ancients
Tues 10 - Thurs 12 April, 10:30 - 3:30pm
Meet trees once nibbled by dinosaurs, some of the very first flowers and an ancient tree that inspired the samurai! Make your own leaf fossil and help us to create a giant picture of ancient plants with prehistoric paints!
Tree Champions
Wed 6 - Fri 8 June, 10:30 - 4:30pm
Move over Usain Bolt! Meet the Olympic champions of the tree world…
High fibres
Tues 31 July - Thurs 2 Aug, 10:30 - 4:30pm
Discover plants that provide us with the fibres that help us make our world!
Summer Secrets
Tues 7 - Thurs 9 Aug, 10:30 - 4:30pm
Join us as we delve deep in the undergrowth to find the hidden secrets of summer. Leaves that communicate, deadly poisons and a rubbery wonder await! Create secret summer pictures and design you own pipe cleaner woodland bugs
Arboretum art attack!
Tues 14 - Thurs 16 August, 10:30 - 4:30pm
Calling all artists! Explore the artistic origins of Westonbirt and discover how we use trees instead of paint! Build your own stick frame, create your own natural art to add to our photo gallery, and design a picturesque tree garden.
Plant Hunters academy
Wed 22 - Mon 27 August, 10:30 - 4:30pm
Take a trip around the world as an intrepid plant hunter. Discover death defying stories, solve our mystery tree quiz and find out why we continue to go on plant hunts today. There will be different craft activities and explorer challenges each day.
Autumnal Highlights
Mon 29 Oct - Fri 2 Nov, 10:30 - 4pm
Be inspired by seasonal fireworks and autumn’s bounty – meet the traffic light tree, find dead men’s fingers and plant your own seed to take home! There will be different seed and leaf craft activities each day.
