
Half Term Family Fun: 'Mud and Machines'
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February Half Term: 'Mud and Machines'Every day enjoy drop-in workshops and fun family activities, including quiz sheets and colouring templates to add to our giant collage. Also have your picture taken with our mini-digger or small tractor and wear your wellies to have messy fun in our puddle splash!
Saturday 10 Feb - Nature's Own Decorative Bowls: Forage for leaves, flowers and more to decorate your very own natural clay bowl.
Sunday 11 Feb - Create your own Moving Machine: Engineer your very own working, earth-moving machine from cardboard, then decorate it to make it the hottest set of wheels in Devon.
Monday 12 Feb - 3D Machines: Colour in a picture of one of our marvellous machines and then make it 3D using a variety pulses, lentils and beans.
Tuesday 13 Feb - Muddy Pancakes: Decorate your very own edible pancake with chocolate and sprinkles and eat it when you are done or take it home to eat for tea.
Wednesday 14 Feb - Forest Faces and Mud Monsters: Collect leaves, sticks, moss and pebbles from the Garden to decorate your clay faces, which can be stuck on to Rosemoor's Woodland Walk trees or taken home to decorate a tree in your own garden.
Friday 16 Feb - Great Mud Pie Bake-off: Make a clay mud pie and decorate it with natural materials collected from the Garden. Judging will take place at 12.45pm and 3.45pm with a prize for the most creative pie from the morning and afternoon sessions!
Saturday 17 Feb - Create your own cardboard Moving Machine
Colour and cut out an earth moving machine or tractor and then put it together with parts that move.
Sunday 18 Feb - Nature's Own Decorative Bowls: Forage for leaves, flowers and more to decorate your very own natural clay bowl.
All workshops run 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm
Normal garden admission and free for RHS Members.
Guide Prices
Adult: £11.50 (£12.65 with donation*)
Children, ages 5-16: £5.75 (£6.33 with donation*)
Children, 4 and under: FREE
Family, 2 Adults and 2 Children: £29.00 (£31.90 with donation*)
Pre-booked Groups, 10+ Adults: £9.50 per person
Companion of a disabled person: FREE
Green travel, via bus or bike: £8.00 (£8.80 with donation*)
*By paying the donation price the RHS as a registered charity can claim Gift Aid worth 25% on the total payment at no extra cost to you, helping us share the best in gardening.
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