About Flower Fairies Family Days

Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19 and Saturday 22 February 2025

10.30am - 4pm

Join us this February half term to celebrate the Flower Fairies with your family. With sketching, poetry readings, embossing and decorative fairy doors, all the family can get creative, as well as learning about plants.

Programme

Decorative doors – Foyle Studio

Did you know fairies live amongst the trees? But they need a door to get inside! Decorate a door for a tree in your garden so a fairy can make themselves at home.

Wing embossing – Clore Learning Studio

The beautiful wings of fairies make them so very special. Learn about embossing to create a small set of wings; you’ll need to look closely to see the magic.

Poetry huddle – Historic Galleries

Gather together in the Gallery to listen to the poetry that Cicely wrote to bring her Flower Fairies to life.

Drawing from life – The Old Kiln

Cicely was an enthusiastic sketcher and started drawing from a very young age. She drew from life, looking carefully at the world around her and captured it with her pencil onto paper. In our drawing studio, you can use your observational skills to look at flowers and plants, and pose for each other to practice drawing what you see, just like Cicely would have!

RHS Wisley - Special guests!

This half term, the team from RHS Wisley are joining us to share secrets and fun about growing plants, and learn from the nature around us.

Photo of a young child walking along some tree sump stepping stones in the Verey Playwood

Explore our site

Spend the whole day as a family with us and discover activities across the site. While you’re here have an adventure in the Verey Playwood, and refuel with a picnic in the grounds or by picking up lunch from our Tea Shop. Make the most of your day by visiting the magical Watts Chapel, as well as the Flower Fairies exhibition.

A boy lies on the gallery floor reading while his mother sits on a bench watching him, holding another young child.

Watts Gallery

Includes Historic Gallery, De Morgan Exhibition, Temporary Exhibition and Sculpture Gallery

Watts Contemporary Gallery

We showcase a wide range of contemporary artists making painting, prints, ceramics, sculpture and craft. All works are for sale and help support our Art for All programme.