❄️ Winter sleep and Hidden lives ❄️
Under-5s Seasonal Nature Play Workshops.
Join us this Winter for three immersive, but gentle and playful workshops for under-fives and their grown-ups, introducing and exploring Winter animals that hibernate, brumate and overwinter.
Through movement, sensory play, storytelling and making, children will discover sleeping mammals, cold-blooded creatures and hidden insects whilst learning about the quiet magic of Winter.
22 January🦡 Sleeping mammals: Dormice and Badgers
29 January 🐸 Cold-blooded creatures: Amphibians and Reptiles
5 February 🐞 Hidden insects: An Overwintering Safari
Week 1: 22 January
🦡 Sleeping Mammals: Dormice & Badgers:
We’ll explore how mammals like dormice and badgers curl up and sleep through winter. Children will take part in cosy role-play, movement activities, counting and simple making, discovering how animals keep warm and safe until spring.
Week 2: 29 January
🐸 Amphibians & Reptiles: Cold-Blooded Sleepers
This session introduces frogs, newts, toads and reptiles, and the idea of brumation – a special winter rest. Through sensory play, movement and creative exploration, children will learn where these animals hide and how they begin to wake as the weather slowly changes.
Week 3: 5 February
🐞 Hidden Insects: An Overwintering Safari
Not all insects sleep in the same way. Children will go on a playful “insect safari” to discover the hidden Winter lives of ladybirds, bees, butterflies, moths, beetles and spiders through searching, movement and imaginative play.
Dates
Venue Details
Humber Street Gallery is a contemporary art space nestled in the heart of the city’s Fruit Market cultural quarter. Housed in a former fruit warehouse, the gallery will showcase the best in contemporary visual arts from the shocking to the sublime. The gallery seeks to generate debate, push boundaries, encourage new ways of thinking and inspire with a packed programme designed to appeal. to those both familiar and not so familiar with the arts.
Facilities
Accessible Toilets
Assistance Dogs
Baby Changing
Level Access
Wheelchair Access
