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Pop up activities - every Thursday at Rockcliffe Park

Join us at Rockcliffe Park Branch every Thursday from 3 July to 21 Aug for a special themed Narnia art, engineering and science pop-up activities linked to The Chronicles of Narnia from C.S. Lewis.  This is a self-directed, drop-in program and will run from 3:00PM to 4:30PM.

3 July - Bubble geometry- Science 

  Create shapes, easy or complex and see them filled with bubble geometric shapes

10 July -Recreate a master- Aubrey Beardsley-  Art  

  Based on Gothic style drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, see if you can draw his Guinevere in Mourning

17 July - Aslan the lion - Art

  Using paper, yarn and pencils create a unique lion mask

24 July -Tangrams and Narnia - Geometry

  Every created a geometic trangram?  Use these geometic shapes and your creativity to make creatures, characters and objects from the world of Narnia. 

31 July - Sail away on cork ships - Engineering

  • Can you create a cork ship with a personal standard (flag) that floats? We will test your designs and photograph them in our pop-up pool!

7 Aug - Make a castle out of Keva Planks -Engineering

  • Test your engineering and building skills to create a great castle 

14 Aug - Leaf animals - Art 

  • Outside you can collect treasure from nature like leaves, seeds and sticks and use part of them to create animals

21 Aug - Zines - Art

  • Using magazine images, your own artwork or other materials create your own story zine!

Ages 3+ (with adult supervision)

The Narnia books

    Read this wonderful series - all 4 books! The Chronicles of Narnia

And we have lots of books and movies on the Narnia world in French and English.  Check it out by clicking here!