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Inspire communities with these 'play with nature' events
An original eco-art activity at your festival or event will entertain the crowds through hands-on participation, create visual intrigue and activate the space. Hands Down activities explore nature themes using all natural materials, inspire cross generational collaboration, create community building and are a lot of fun. Supporting plastic-free, zero waste play for eco-friendly communities!
Events we offer
Hay, Hay, Straw Bale Play
This activity offers a simple but dramatic way to provide drop in, unstructured, family fun in the great outdoors! Using giant, natural building blocks (straw bales), this activity lets imaginations and bodies run wild to create all sorts of structures that change and evolve during the day. Think mazes, cubbies, pyramids, nests, spirals or serpents for all to play in and on! This event joyfully activates spaces with nature play on a grand scale and builds community through collaborative activity.
Story Stones
Rock Art Installations
An evocative nature activity that invites an open-ended response in creating visual pictures that evolve and change through the day, while powerfully animating the event space with amazing artworks. Visitors collect their rocks and stones to make beautiful arrangements on flat ground – the blank canvas. They then show and tell their nature story for all to enjoy! Note: This event could be linked with International Stonework Play Day.
Field of Nests
Bush Sculptures
An invitation to think and behave like an ‘animal architect’, families make their very own giant bird’s nest, big enough to get inside, using all natural materials, such as sticks, bark, branches and foliage. This activity offers the community the opportunity to work together to build a very special world. Watch how the activity evolves over the weekend into a field of unique bush cubbies for all to enjoy and play in.
Tree Whispers
Tree Dressing Celebration
Based on the ancient ritual of ‘tree dressing’, this program celebrates a chosen magnificent tree by inviting people to imagine what the tree might say to humanity, if it could speak. These messages are colourfully inscribed on leaves, card or fabric and then strung up from branches, for all to witness and ponder. Participants help create a growing ‘message centre’ as a wonderful walk-in installation to inspire all who enter! Fig trees are particularly suited to this activity.
