Birthday Party @ Festina Lente

Come and join us in the gardens for fun, nature based birthday parties in the safe surrounds of Festina Lente Gardens... Plenty of fun activities to choose from...

Outdoor birthday parties!

At Festina Lente, we are currently offering Outdoor Birthday Parties, with a Nature Theme!

The children can enjoy the outdoor space, exploring, having fun and can take part in a workshop of your choice. We do not provide the food but you are welcome to bring along food, and to decorate the chalet to your taste! We offer Nature based workshops for children . The party is 2 hours timeslot, with full use of our wooden chalet ( for the food)The first hour is the activity which is ran by staff, and the second hour is supervised by parents only- and the the food can be brought in. We have heating up facilities but not cooking facilities! We recommend having a local pizza business deliver, as it takes the stress out of it for the parents!

“PARTY WITH NATURE”:

Group activities are all about nature, using material found in nature, and outdoors in nature

Flower Power Pots: Decorate a flower pot with funky materials – crafty, blingy, paint, graffiti, or with poetry! Finally, you can explore the garden’s treasure chest for flower bulbs and seeds to sow in your pots, along with your dreams!

Fantastic Bugs and Wonderful Worms: Want to help our planet spin with bug-packed, plant phizzy and worm wiggly friends? Get ready for a wild adventure: worm searches and bug identification. A hands-on session: Your challenge will be to make amazing homes and mini-gardens for your new wild creature friends to live in – and there will be fascinating natural building materials for you to experiment with.

The Secret Garden – Discover nature on a nature spotting expedition– you will start your journey with a lucky nature dip of clues, armed with bug and plant identification kits, to find your way around the garden to solve a Nature mystery. You will have 60 minutes to search for hidden natural objects dotted around the garden. At the end of the hunt, there will be a reward for whoever finds the strangest garden treasures!

Wild Sketch Trails – Create art as you walk: journal, sketch, paint!

A great way to discover what is going on in the seasons – and stir naturally, the amazing artist in you! Make portraits, postcards, sculptures, paintings, poems…get inspired as you walk on guided tours of the gardens nooks and crannies! A final exhibition will be arranged to celebrate your masterpiece creations with Nature!

Animal and plant yoga – let you inner party or plant animal out in the gardens! If you want some mindful moments with Nature – just roll out a party with the plants and bugs on a mat, stretch in the fresh air with our guided wild yoga sequence! Enter a magic carpet ride –get into the groove with the rhythm and twists of Nature!

Seed Bombs: Make a dazzling nature blast – collect your favourite flower seeds, create colourful bombs to shower new colours into nature. You will be able to experiment in our secret seed bomb lab using an Irish rainforest of flower species, rainbows of petals, fizzy seed powders– but watch out for the rain, as they might explode!

The availability of workshops changes regularly depending on your choice due to the nature of availability of items we use, however if you have a particular workshop you have seen and would like us to design for you, please just ask. All workshops are suitable for everyone aged 4+ and they are great fun!