Outdoor Art Club at The Whitworth

Visit the Outdoor Art Club at the Whitworth Art Gallery for fun and creative activities designed to encourage your little ones to explore nature and play outdoors with family and friends.

Get soaked and splash around in the water play, create all sorts of yucky and marvellous medicines at the potion stations, and produce your own art with chalk drawing and mud painting.

The Outdoor Art Club activities are drop-in. If they are at full capacity when you arrive, there are other activities for you and your family to get involved in, including the Welly Walk booklets, Park Trails map, and Colouring-in Park map and there is a play park nearby too.

These outdoor creative activities support children to learn communication and understand team work, while also improving their fine-motor skills in a natural, secure, outdoor setting. The benefits are huge, and not only this, the welcoming environment creates a space where adults also feel comfortable. Parents and carers can spend some quality time with both their children and other adults, while participating in creative and messy play and breathing in the fresh air.

The Outdoor Art Club at The Whitworth provides a safe and colourful space to encourage children to be curious and take risks, as well as building a positive relationship with the environment.

These sessions take place outdoors come rain or shine, so it’s recommended that you wear suitable warm clothing, waterproofs, and wellies, especially during the cold and wet months. If you forget, not to worry – there are wellies and rain suits of different sizes to borrow.