Terrific Tuesdays

Every Tuesday in July and August: Art Rules!

10:00 am–3:00 pm

Looking for something fun and educational to do with the kids while they're out of school for the summer? Join us for hands-on crafts and games based on things in the museum, garden, and library, which teach kids, ages 3–10, about color, line, form, and other elements of art.

Special guests will be on hand to highlight skills and trades from the past and present. Each week will feature new activities and guests:

July 3: Shape

Embroidered pockets and quilts with geometric patterns inspire bright suncatchers and hand-decorated canvas pouches.

July 10: Color

Activities focus on the science of color and the use of color theory in garden and interior design. We’ll make 3D glasses and use dried flowers to create collages.

July 17: Texture

Discover the variety of textures represented in the museum and garden, from bristly pine trees to soft merino sheep.

July 24: Line

Snakes, maps, and more are creatively interpreted with felt, puzzles, and other games. Timelines provide additional inspiration.

July 31:
Explore the concept of form as it pertains to origami, slime, and even geometric bubbles.

August 7: Value

When you think of value, money may be the first thing that comes to mind, but value also suggests the lightness and darkness of color. Learn about white and black and all the tints and shades in between as we create self-portraits, disguise boxes as gems, and explore rudimentary photography.

August 14: Pattern

Do your kids keep repeating themselves? If so, this week is for them, as we create patterns that are planned such as those in kaleidoscopes.

August 21: Space

Our projects this week explore the concepts of positive and negative space as well as the idea of how objects appear in relation to each other. Screen printing and perspective drawing will be some of the fun.

August 28: Color

There’s so much to the world of color that this topic is worth returning to! We’ll revisit a few familiar topics and introduce a few others as we explore the spectrum of visible light.

Members and children under 2 are free. Nonmembers are $5 per child; $5 per one adult accompanying a paying child; additional adults are $15.

*Please note that Terrific Tuesdays is reserved for Winterthur Members or paying guests. AHS, ROAM, and NARM reciprocity is not available for this program. Thank you for your understanding!

Family Activities

Terrific Tuesdays

Quarry Garden

Peony Garden

Oak Hill

Pinetum

Sycamore Hill

Magnolia Bend

Sundial Garden

Winterhazel Walk

Azalea Woods

March Bank

Quarry Garden
Begun in 1902, when H. F. du Pont was 22, March Bank is the oldest surviving garden area at Winterthur. Du Pont studied The Wild Garden (1904) and other writings by British horticulturists William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll. Using these ideas, du Pont began naturalizing daffodils on the bank and by the 1940s had planted thousands of snowdrops, snowflakes, crocus, squills, and glory-of-the-snow.

Peony Garden
The herbaceous and tree peonies feature a dazzling array of white, pink, red, yellow, bronze, peach, and maroon flowers in May. Originally designed as an iris garden by landscape architect Marian Coffin in 1929, it was adapted to showcase the work of Dr. A. P. Saunders, a noted peony hybridizer.

Oak Hill
Stroll along the grass paths that afford spectacular views of the surrounding countryside and pond below. Drifts of colorful native and exotic azaleas bloom from April into summer. Lavender colchicum carpet the hill in autumn, echoed by the purple beautyberries nearby.

Pinetum
This rich collection of conifers, or cone-bearing trees, includes pines, firs, spruces, cedars, and their relatives. H. F. du Pont’s father, Henry Algernon du Pont, began the Pinetum in 1914. A notable collection of flowering quince forms a floral corridor beneath the evergreens.

Family Activities

Terrific Tuesdays

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