Maker Space: Winter Break
Step into the world of imagination at Maker Space, where the deCordova Sculpture Park becomes your muse! Explore bold ideas and unexpected materials inspired by the artists and themes on view in the Sculpture Park. Whether you’re flying solo or teaming up with others, this is your chance… Read More
Growing Together: Natural Holiday Gifts from the Garden
Turn the garden’s bounty into thoughtful, handmade gifts for the holiday season. This hands-on workshop explores creative ways to use dried herbs, flowers, seeds, and other garden-grown materials to make simple, beautiful gifts such as garden-inspired sugar scrubs, botanical sachets, infused salts, tea mixes, and natural decorations. Participants will leave… Read More
Kids Gather, Make, Give: Children’s Natural Gift Making Workshop at Appleton Farms
Come to Appleton Farms’ Education Barnyard and gather with community, family, and our barnyard friends for a festive day of natural and repurposed crafting. Designed for families with children ages 3–12, this workshop will feature craft tables in the carriage barn where children can make recycled material handmade cards, stamped… Read More
Make and Mingle: Winter Wreaths
Get outside and explore the Fruitlands Trails while gathering materials for your own winter wreath! After our brisk winter hike, we’ll head into the warm indoors to enjoy some bubbles and craft the materials we’ve harvested into a festive, sustainable wreath you can hang from your doorway to celebrate the… Read More
Gather, Make, Give: Natural Gift Making Workshop for Adults at Appleton Farms
Gather with family, friends, and community in our scenic Carriage Barn to kick off the holiday season with creativity and joy. Participants will have the opportunity to make a variety of nature-based crafts to take home and give as gifts, including natural barnyard inspired fire starters, tea bags, stovetop simmer… Read More
Winter Wreath-Making Workshop
Celebrate the winter season by creating your own winter wreath led by Long Hill’s horticulturist, Kristyn Stogner! During this workshop, participants will learn techniques for making their wreath using natural materials foraged from the Long Hill gardens. Workshop Includes: 12” wreath frame We will provide wire and all decorating… Read More
Make and Mingle: Felted Winter Landscapes
Create your own three dimensional winter wonderland while enjoying some festive bubbles! Learn how to “paint” with multi-colored wool roving onto a felt “canvas” and watch as layered, textural works of art come to life! Get inspired by the New England landscape and create your own winter scenes that… Read More
Growing Together: Natural Fall/Winter Decorations from the Garden
Bring the garden’s beauty indoors with this hands-on workshop focused on creating beautiful winter decorations using natural materials. Participants will explore how to gather and preserve seasonal branches, evergreens, dried flowers, seed heads, berries, grasses, and other garden treasures to create festive botanical accents for the home. This class celebrates… Read More
Field to Felting: A Felting Workshop at Weir River Farm
Discover the art of working with wool at Weir River Farm in this immersive, hands-on felting experience celebrating our beloved flock of sheep! During this workshop, guests will enjoy an up-close introduction to the farm’s sheep and learn about the important role sheep play in sustainable fiber production. Participants will… Read More
Fruitlands Fairy Forest
Calling All Woodland Fairies and Gnomes! The Fruitlands Fairy Forest is back! While living at Fruitlands, 10-year-old Louisa May Alcott wrote in her diary that she “had a lovely time in the woods with Anna and Lizzie. We were fairies, and made gowns and paper wings. I ‘flied’ the highest… Read More
Halloween in the Morning Mist
Celebrate Halloween at deCordova with your little one! Spend a crisp fall morning with your family in the Sculpture Park and complete gently-ghoulish activities designed for preschoolers and toddlers. Work with educators to explore spiders through a collaborative rope web installation and sculptures inspired by the 8-legged arachnids. Read More
Sip and Sculpt: Ceramic Planter with a Friendly Face
Throughout the Sculpture Park you’ll find many hidden faces and abstracted human forms nestled within the landscape. Inspired by the interactions between these man-made figures and the natural world, we’ll be using air-dry clay to create our own planters in the shape of a human head, blending material, form, and… Read More