Create nature inspired cardboard forest treehouses, fairy dwellings, and more! Use recycled and natural materials along with paint and other traditional art materials.

Inside-Outside Nature-Based Educators

Join us to create a unique and intuitive self-care art work. Set an intention, work with positive affirmations, experience the calming effects of quiet concentration, play with patterns, release emotions and focus inward. Learn tools to develop a creative routine that supports self care and overall wellness.

This is a FREE online webinar. Register here.

Get ready for a relaxing and immersive half-day of renewal in nature and beautiful indoor spaces with your colleagues! A host of wellness practitioners will facilitate restorative and regenerative workshops in movement, art, breath, play, immune system support, and nature connection. We will also share a delicious lunch. Let us give back to you! After a day of immersion in nature and wellness, we hope you will leave calm, refreshed, and ready for the remainder of the school year. We look forward to sharing the day together!

Join us for a family workshop session at The Orchard in Patten, Maine to learn about the art of batik. Batik is a delicate method of dyeing fabric using a removable wax resist. Hot wax is applied to fabric using batik stamps and brushes or other tools. The fabric and wax are then painted. After drying, the wax is removed in a boiling water bath, revealing a pattern on the fabric. You will learn the process of making batik, from applying liquid hot wax with various tools, applying dyes, and setting color. Explore storytelling using patterns and marks or simply create a beautiful work of art to keep and treasure.

Join us for a family workshop session to learn about the art of batik. Batik is a delicate method of dyeing fabric using a removable wax resist. Hot wax is applied to fabric using batik stamps and brushes or other tools. The fabric and wax are then painted. After drying, the wax is removed in a boiling water bath, revealing a pattern on the fabric. You will learn the process of making batik, from applying liquid hot wax with various tools, applying dyes, and setting color. Explore storytelling using patterns and marks or simply create a beautiful work of art to keep and treasure.

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of northern Maine as we blend nature, journaling, art, movement, and mindfulness. Join us for a transformative experience that will ignite your senses, nourish your soul and foster personal growth.

Join us at The Orchard in Patten, Maine to explore what it takes to let the paint flow in your watercolors and embrace the unexpected in this two-part workshop. The element of surprise that happens when you get out of the way and allow the paint to move in water is key to watercolor painting!

Relax and find ease in your body, mind, and soul as we use the natural landscape and beauty of Northern Maine to create works of art on paper with watercolor paint.

Join us at The Orchard in Patten, Maine to explore what it takes to let the paint flow in your watercolors and embrace the unexpected in this two-part workshop. The element of surprise that happens when you get out of the way and allow the paint to move in water is key to watercolor painting!

Relax and find ease in your body, mind, and soul as we use the natural landscape and beauty of Northern Maine to create works of art on paper with watercolor paint.

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of northern Maine as we blend nature, journaling, art, movement, and mindfulness. Join us for a transformative experience that will ignite your senses, nourish your soul and foster personal growth.

Join us for a nature scavenger hunt and explore colors, textures and shapes found in nature at The Orchard in Patten, Maine. Create a beautiful garland suncatcher using simple techniques and materials!

*All ages workshop

Join us for a nature scavenger hunt and explore colors, textures and shapes found in nature at The Orchard in Patten, Maine. Create a beautiful garland suncatcher using simple techniques and materials!

*All ages workshop

Join us for this family workshop to create a nature loom using sticks and other foraged items such as flowers, grasses, moss, feathers etc. Use assorted strings, yarns and textiles alongside your foraged items to make a beautiful woven wall hanging. Get outside to explore and discover in this all ages workshop!

Join us for this family workshop to create a nature loom using sticks and other foraged items such as flowers, grasses, moss, feathers etc. Use assorted strings, yarns and textiles alongside your foraged items to make a beautiful woven wall hanging. Get outside to explore and discover in this all ages workshop!

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of northern Maine as we blend nature, journaling, art, movement, and mindfulness. Join us for a transformative experience that will ignite your senses, nourish your soul and foster personal growth.

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of northern Maine as we blend nature, journaling, art, movement, and mindfulness. Join us for a transformative experience that will ignite your senses, nourish your soul and foster personal growth.

Join us to create nature inspired candles using foraged flowers, natural wax and essential oils. Let in the light and burn your candle throughout the fall season!

Join us to create nature inspired candles using foraged flowers, natural wax and essential oils. Let in the light and burn your candle throughout the fall season!

Join us and create a fall inspired watercolor painting, using the natural landscape of Northern Maine.

Explore what it takes to let the paint flow in your watercolors and embrace the unexpected. The element of surprise that happens when you get out of the way and allow the paint to move in water is key to watercolor painting!

*Beginner and advanced painters welcome

Join us and create a fall inspired watercolor painting, using the natural landscape of Northern Maine.

Explore what it takes to let the paint flow in your watercolors and embrace the unexpected. The element of surprise that happens when you get out of the way and allow the paint to move in water is key to watercolor painting!

*Beginner and advanced painters welcome

Explore different forms of printmaking such as relief, stamping, mono-printing, and carving in this workshop for all ages. We will inspire community connection through storytelling, gratitude and Thanksgiving themes.

Explore different forms of printmaking such as relief, stamping, mono-printing, and carving in this workshop for all ages. We will inspire community connection through storytelling, gratitude and Thanksgiving themes.

Join us to celebrate the winter solstice by creating a simple and elegant wax paper lantern using foraged natural items, such as pine, cedar, spruce and fir needles. Hang your lantern at home as we usher in the season of darkness.

Join us to celebrate the winter solstice by creating a simple and elegant wax paper lantern using foraged natural items, such as pine, cedar, spruce and fir needles. Hang your lantern at home as we usher in the season of darkness.