Sunday, 26 May

Parent & Toddler Group

Little Green Fingers & all Teddys are welcomed into our gardens each week. Teaching toddlers how things grow.

By Festina Lente CLG

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Sun, 26 May 2024 10:00 - 11:00 GMT+1

Location

Festina Lente

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bray Ireland

Refund Policy

Contact the organiser to request a refund.

About this event

" May I grow so tall and bright,

So free and wild,

So Brave and Vibrant,

That when you see me standing, You think I am a sunflower"

- Gaby Comprés.

T his monthy themed gardening club is suitable for parents with toddlers(ages 1-4) -fun, practical, and nature connected in everyway! A great first step into the great outdoors, while also giving parents the opportunity to socialise with other parents over a coffee.

T he Victorian Walled Gardens offers a safe and friendly space for little toddlers to find their own way, especially if shy. There are lots of nooks and crannies for little ones to feel at ease, create their own adventures and make friends. We encourage all the toddlers to bring along their own Teddy Bear to help us with your gardening on the day.

February is for Fantastic Spring Frog Leaps and Flower sowing! We will make valentine garden signs and decorate plant pots to take home with our favourite plants that we want to love and care for

March is for Madhatter Bunny Hops, Massive easter egg hunt, Magical plant music and Microgreen growing!

April is for Alphabet Garden Scavenge Hunts and art from the gardens – inspired by everything we can spot and see in the heights of our spring Adventures

May is for magical butterfly garden making and throwing wild flower seed bombs! We will be spreading our wings with sensory adventures around the garden, bug hotel and buttefly crafting!

June is for jumping in the sensory garden and making your favourite take away sensory container garden with all your senses – feed the bees too!

July is for the joy of meeting and feeding the terrapins around the pond together. Lots of terrapin crafting and terrapin mindfulness too! Watch how the terrapins just chill out – learn the terrapin yoga pose!

August is for making amazing fruit jam from foraging berries in the gardens, to share in an amazing teddy bears picnic – celebrate summer together!

September is for harvesting scrumptious lettuce and making a salad bowl garden to take home!

October is for making pumpkin bug hotels and garden scarecrows, sharing some delicious pumpkin muffins too!

November is for making new soil – we will sweep and collect the leaves together and make magical composts, we will make a leaf collage craft memories to, to remember all our 2024 work together with Nature

W e are so excited to welcome all your little green fingers into our gardens!

Cost: 1 parent and toddler ticket is: €13 (+ Eventbrite fee) - This includes a 10% discount to use at our garden shop, coffee or tea for parents on arrival plus take home microgeens and crafts for the toddler.

An annual ticket is €125 and grants access to all 10 of our seasonal sessions.

Sibling Discount also available - please email Heather for details: events.workshop@festinalente.ie or for any other information, or if your child has any additional needs.

" Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are dirt"- John Muir

Organised by

Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops, a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit. Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus. The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis. It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation. Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly. Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk. The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.