$35, for children ages nine to twelve
Includes sketch journal and pencil

These dates are the second, fall themed, after-school workshop in an ongoing series of seasonal workshops for children’s art instruction that will allow your child to produce their own botanical journal they’ll treasure for their lifetime.  The Monday through Wednesday October sessions will focus on fall season, acorn and hickory nut sketches and colored deciduous leaves found within the arboretum.  Interdisciplinary historical, plant lore, Native American plant culture, and basic science skills will be taught alongside botanical drawing techniques. Your child will also learn tree identification. Journal work begins with rubbings and leaf tracings, and then moves into sketching subjects.  Workshop members will feel they’re becoming young ‘John Clayton botanical explorers,’ and will use their pencils to document their findings just like the famous eighteenth-century botanical explorer and illustrator did.  This workshop will continue next into a winter session for children who can continue their journals in January with a winter bare twig and dormant woody plant botanicals section, and then conclude with a spring workshop that will focus on the arboretum’s blooming Trillium, bluebell, celandine poppy, and woodland phlox.  Hurry to register your child.  Space is limited to 14 children.  Parents are welcome.