Bumble Bee Childrens Festival

BUMBLE BEE CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS

Visual Art Bumble Bee workshops
Saturday 22nd March

Grow your own Hedgehog
10.00 – 11.00
Purple Room, KDYS €5
6 - 8yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS
Grow your own hedgehog from your old socks, using compost and grass seeds.

Story Telling with Puppets
11.00 – 12.30
Yellow Room, KDYS €5
4 - 8yrs MAX 12 PARTICIPANTS

Stories around how we can save “Planet Earth”. Create your own puppets from a range of recycled products. Give your puppet an “eco friendly” name and create your own stories.

Shadow House
11.00 – 12.30
Blue Room, KDYS €5
8 - 12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Participants will design and make a puppet, devise their individual story and perform a show with the puppets in the specially made Shadow House.

Candlemaking
11.00 – 13.00
Red Room, KDYS €5
8 - 12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Enter the bubbling molten world of melted wax and make beautiful candles for all occasions

Art Attack painting workshop
12.00 – 13.00 Green Room, KDYS €5
3 - 6yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Creative mixed media workshop.

Build your own 3D World
12.00 – 13.30
Purple Room, KDYS €5
8 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Using natural and recycled materials, create your own 3D world.

Get Crafty with Clay
14.00 – 15.30 Red Room, KDYS €5
8 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Our environment is precious and trees play a very important role…come and make your own personal little tree hugger, have fun and make new friends.

We Are One Printing Workshop
13.30 – 15.00
Blue Room, KDYS €5
8 – 12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Using recycled objects to create print effects, create a world where people and colours collide.

Art Attack painting workshop 2
14.30 – 16.00
Green Room, KDYS €5
7 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Creative mixed media workshop.

Visual Art Bumble Bee workshops
Sunday 23rd March

Funky Veggie People
12.00 – 13.00
Green Room, KDYS €5
3 - 6yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Have fun making Veggie people and create your very own miniature garden or sea scene using recyclables from nature.

Solar Planet Mobiles
12.00 – 13.00
Yellow Room, KDYS €5
6 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Create a stunning mobile of our solar system with the SUN and the eight planets and the dwarf planet that orbit it. Find out which planet is the biggest, the smallest, the coldest and which one has rings. When you’ve finished, hang your solar system mobile from the ceiling and watch as the planets orbit around the sun.

Mandala workshop
12.00 – 14.00
Blue Room, KDYS €5
5 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Made from shells, flowers, stones, leaves and anything else deemed necessary, this Mandala will depict our solar system, starting with the sun and positioning the planet and everything in between!

Look FLASH in Trash
12.00 –16.00
Red Room, KDYS €7
8 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Have fun designing and restyling your own original clothing
NB This workshop is day long- with a break in the middle for refreshments; participants will be asked to bring some piece of clothing they would like to work on and also to bring something to eat and drink for the break

Planet Lightcatchers
14.30 – 15.30
Yellow Room, KDYS €5
3 -6yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Saturn is almost everybody’s favourite planet. In this workshop you will make a beautiful model of Saturn and her rings to hang in your window. Watch your very own planet turn and sparkle in the sunlight like a giant jewel!

Funky Recyclable Accessories
14.30 – 16.00
Green Room, KDYS €5
7 -12yrs MAX12 PARTICIPANTS

Save the planet and create your very own accessories using recycled materials. Choose from a variety of thing to make including a CD holder, Jewellery holder, Calendar, Board games, T-Shirt prints (please bring your own plain white cotton t-shirt) Please feel free to bring along any item you might feel will be useful in the workshop.