1st August 2024 : 11:00 - 15:00
Join us for an aromatic session in which you will learn how to make your own potpourri. We’ll be using fragrant herbs and plants and gorgeous-smelling essential oils. Then we’ll make personalised paper boxes to take your potpourri home in. Stick around in the park and complete the quiz or younger children trails to learn more about plants and win a prize.
2 sessions: 11am – 12 and 2 to 3pm
Suitable for older children approx. 6 years and above (younger children must be closely supervised one to one by an adult if taking part). Allergy warning – please advise staff if your child has any food allergies at the start of the session
Free
Dress for the weather. Event takes place in the classroom.
The site has a visitor centre and toilets, including accessible toilet with baby changing facilities.
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Good level access across the site with wide wooden boardwalks and accessible bird hides and pond dipping platform. Activities also accessible. Disabled toilet and baby changing facility. Wheelchair available to borrow. Disabled parking space at end of John Harrison Way. Ring 020 8293 1904 for any special parking arrangements needed.
We strongly advise you use public transport. We have great public transport access: North Greenwich tube, plus buses 108, 129, 132, 161, 188, 422, 472, 486 to Millennium Village Oval Square , John Harrison Way or Millennium Way stops. By bicycle or on foot: along the Thames Path between the O2 and the Thames Barrier, with places to lock bikes. Free parking for 2 hours on John Harrison Way, Pear Tree Way and West Parkside but spaces very limited. Please note that the outer boardwalk is currently closed for repair. You can get to the gatehouse and park via the Thames Path, off John Harrison Way.
For more information or if you have a query about this event please call 0208 293 1904 or email Joanne Smith or Tony Day
