Saturday 11 February 2012 - Sunday 19 February 2012
10.00 am - 4.00 pm

This February half term, get your wellies on and get out and about at Harewood's Love Nature event - a fabulous week to celebrate the coming of Spring. 

In honour of conservation and all things natural, we're putting together a schedule of fun activities to celebrate the great outdoors to be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Love nature, love Harewood...

Activities include:

• Make and take crafts: Get crafty making your own bird feeders, cress & grass heads, plantpots, or personalise a welly peg or sticker to take home! 11am – 4pm Education Rooms and Bird Garden Marquee. Charges Apply approx. £1 per craft.

• Join our Head Gardener Trevor Nicholson for a talk and walk around Harewood's wonderful Gardens, exploring the grand, venerable, ancient and elegant trees we have here. 2.30pm 13th - 19th Feb, wrap up warm and meet at the Courtyard.

• Our Bird Garden Curator John Waller will be showing our visitors around the Bird Garden. You'll meet some of the most popular residents of the Bird Garden and see the daily Penguin feeding too! 1pm daily, meet at the Penguin Terrace.

• Pottery demonstrations with Fired Art Designs will be taking place throughout the day, using paints, brushes, stencils, stamps and sponges... and the opportunity to have a go yourself. the Geopods. Charges apply. £5 per piece.
  

• Wooden Furniture demonstrations with Mawdsley Williams. Mawdsley Williams are all about individual design... 'Foodies are connoisseurs of good food, woodies appreciate fine timber. You know who the foodies are, well come in and meet the woodies'. Near the Adventure Playground Daily 11th – 16th Feb.

• Seed Potting: plant a seed or plant to take away with you and watch it grow! Near the Adventure Playground Daily 13th - 19th Feb.

• All you ever wanted to know about using Alpaca fleece or keeping Alpaca's with the Yorkshire Alpaca Group: Alpacas and spinning alpaca wool demonstration, sales of alpaca wool goods. Near the Adventure Playground Daily 16th – 19th Feb.

• NEW! 'Environmental Swap Shop' - the ultimate recycling depot, bring your un-needed gems to swap for a more desirable piece...Wooden goods, clothing (good condition), toys and small items which will fit in an average-sized car... Unfortunately we can't accept anything that requires special disposal eg. electrical goods. Below Stairs Daily

• Red Kite info point and viewings. Terrace Cottage Daily throughout the day. Talks 15th Feb only, 11am and 3pm. Talks cancelled due to illness
  

• Spot the Owls: Family fun owl trail. In the Bird Garden.

• Catch-a-Monkey: Guess where the monkey is hiding and win a prize! Bird Garden Activity Marquee

• Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust Kite Making - have a go at making your own kite. Near the Adventure Playground Daily 11th - 15th Feb

• Cooking Demonstrations - learn how to make a delicious Game Pie. Below Stairs in the Old Kitchen Daily 12 noon - 2pm

And much more...!

You can also book to take part in our evening Pottery Course...details to follow soon...

Book online and save 10% on Tickets!

Adult:	£10.00
Senior Citizen:	£9.00
Child:	£6.00
Family:	£30.00
Student:	£6.00

PLEASE NOTE: A Family Ticket = 2 adults and up to 3 children (aged 4-16). Children under 4 are free.