Lantern Making Workshops

Name: Lantern Making Workshops
Start: 2024-09-28T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-28T12:30:00+01:00
Location: RSPB Old Moor (official), S73 0YF Barnsley, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 10:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

RSPB Old Moor (official), S73 0YF Barnsley, United Kingdom | Barnsley, EN

Calling all creative families (or adults)! Make your own moth or toadstool lantern for our WildLights lantern trail!
On Saturdays 12th, 19th and 26th October, our WildLights Lantern Trail will take over RSPB Old Moor nature reserve in a beautiful twilight trail of lanterns, lit puppets and wildlife sculptures, crafts and activities and campfires. You can get involved and make a lantern for the trail, come and see your lantern (your workshop ticket includes 20% off tickets to WildLights for everyone who came to the workshop!*) and then collect your lantern to take home.
Our lantern workshops are 2.5 hours long and are suitable for absolute beginners. Your family/ you will receive all the materials you need to make a lantern up to 1m long from willow and tape then paper it with tissue and decorate. Instructions and help will be on hand from Old Moor volunteers.
One family ticket is to make 1 lantern. If you would like to make another lantern, please buy an additional lantern ticket. Adults interested in making a lantern are most welcome too- you don't need to have children with you!
You'll make the frame from willow and tape before getting nice and sticky papering your lantern with tissue paper and PVA glue (you might want to not wear your best clothes). Then decorate it to make it unique to you and your family.
Each ticket will be using one table- about 5ft, so we recommend a maximum of 2-3 adults just in terms of space.
Why not make a day of it? You can explore RSPB Old Moor before or after your workshop, with The Lookout for families and our new Wild Play areas (reserve entry applies for non-members).
We'll then keep your lantern(s) safe until WildLights where you can spot them amongst lots of others made by people in your community and Old Moor Creative volunteers. After the events, the lantern is yours to take home: if you come to the last WildLights event (26th Oct), your lantern can be collected from 8pm or collect it from Old Moor before Nov 15th when they will be recycled.
The lantern workshops at Old Moor are just £10 for a family who are RSPB members and £12 for a non-member family. This includes all materials and instruction to make your lantern at a 2.5 hour workshop and 20% off tickets for one of the WildLights events for everyone on the workshop.
There's four workshops with space for 8 families at each session.
Saturday 28th September 10-12:30pm Moths
Saturday 28th September 1:30- 4pm Moths
Sunday 29th September 10-12:30pm Toadstools
Sunday 29th September 1:30- 4pm Toadstools
*Claiming your 20% off discount. Once you have bought your family workshop ticket, download your workshop ticket to access your one-time-use discount code. This code will give you 20% off any WildLights Lantern Trail tickets bought for people who attended the family workshop (intended to be one household). Put the code in during checkout for your WildLights Lantern Trail tickets online, or when buying WildLights tickets in the Old Moor shop.