This season's creative 'make & take home' workshops, tailored for children
and their families to compliment The Captain Cook Memorial Museum's
'Botanical Endeavours! Joseph Banks and Cook's First Voyage' 2019 Exhibition

Tues 23rd April  11am - 4pm 
'Flower Press Gang!'
Join the flower press gang. Build a wooden press and capture native flora
to take home ready for a future reveal. 
  
Weds 31st July  11am - 4pm 
'Kaleidoscope Magic'
Make your own mirrored viewing tunnel and observe a new rainbow world
of ever changing petal and seed patterns.

Weds 14th August  11am - 4pm 
'Flower Press Gang!' 
Another chance to join the flower press gang. Build a wooden press
and capture native flora to take home ready for a future reveal. 
 
Weds 30th October  11am - 4pm 
'Botanical Lanterns'
Layer die cut colourful papers and free form silhouette shapes to create
your own special illuminated glass jar landscape of exotic flowers and plants. 

Award-winning local artist Rachael Boddington presents...

'Once I Caught A Fish...'
Fun Crafting Workshop For Kids

Join in this giant game of magnetic fishing. 
Cast your line into the tank, catch, identify, decorate
and take home your very own exotic fish!

Booking not necessary. Just drop in!
Saturday 7th April

This proved to be a really busy day with inventive fishing techniques, a moment to learn about which of the 4 varieties of fish shapes had gone for the 'bait', see a few design ideas and then a time of imaginative fish decoration, with 40 children taking home their carefully adorned fish prizes as fridge magnet mementos.

A jolly nod towards the method and produce of line fishing documented by the crew of Captain Cook’s voyages on route to the South Seas.

The 2nd Fish Crafting Workshop Rachael has devised and hosted within the past year for The Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby.


A Note From The Captain's Table...
"Following the success of last year's 'Fish Crafting' Workshop, we invited Rachael Boddington back to run a similar event for the Easter Holidays. Sticking with the fishy theme, Rachael designed and made a gigantic game of magnetic fishing, complete with decorated 'fish tank' and working fishing-rod.  The kids were given the rod and could catch one of four different pre-cut fish-shapes (plaice, mackerel, butterfly fish, blue striped sea perch). The children were able to identify the species they had caught and could then decorate their fish accordingly (spots for plaice, wavy pattern for mackerel etc), using a host of sequins, ribbons and coloured pipecleaners. When finished, the children could take home their very own personalised fishy-fridge magnets as a souvenir!

Once again, this type of activity worked extremely well and had the bonus of a direct link with the special exhibition through the display of fishing-hooks and Sydney Parkinson's drawings of exotic fish species. The activity was popular with children from the age of 2 to around 13 years and 40 children took part in total.  Some visitors had come specifically to take part in the workshop whereas for others it was a pleasant addition to their experience of the museum.  Rachael's unique sense of style, creativity and attention to detail made for a magical atmosphere with an emphasis on quality and imagination." 


Comments from parents and children:

“What a lovely idea – thank you!”  K. Pygall

“Really imaginative” C. Kroebel

“it was soooooo.......fun”  Jude Kershaw

                                             

Bottle It & Bag ‘em!

Captain Cook Memorial Museum has joined forces with Rachael Boddington, the brainchild of ‘Glittermoth Factory,’ to present a special 1 day Fish Crafting Workshop where kids of all ages can enjoy decorating, bottling and netting their own 3-D fish inclusive of the museum entry fee.

Rachael is known locally as ‘that girl who makes the mermaids’ and is keen to share her unique brand of conceptual artwork with youngsters who have an interest in capturing their own creativity. All artworks made can be taken home and kept as souvenirs.

Bottle It & Bag ‘em! is part of the current exhibition Fish & Ships - A Journey Round the World at Captain Cook’s Table’, telling the story of naval rations and eating habits of the Georgian era. Exhibition highlights include several pieces of the original Resolution dinner service, a full scale reconstruction of the Endeavour stove and Sir Joseph Banks' 18th Century portable cooking apparatus, on loan from Skaill House, Orkney and The Royal Geographical Society, London.

Come along and be part of the Fish Preserving Fun on Sunday 21st August, 10am-4pm
 

Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Grape Lane
Whitby
YO22 4BA

www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk
Tel: (01947) 601900