We worked with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project  and an Oxfordshire based Artist (Alice Walker) to run a mix of activities in May 2023 working with community groups, conference delegates and families visiting the Museum to create an art work called ‘Making Meadows’. Find out more about this terrific weaving art work and the other activities we did here.

A range of resources have been developed through this work. These are now available in downloadable form and may be useful tools for family or educational workshops as well as talks and site visits:

• Crafting Floodplain Meadow species (plants/ animals/ invertebrates) in wax stick/ pipe cleaners with printed references. These can be downloaded here 
• Drawing and colouring Floodplain Meadow species (plant/ animal/ invertebrate) colouring sheets and badges as well as individual coloured / b&w illustrations of species 
• Click Beetle Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Curlew Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Damselfly Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Devil’s Bit Scabious Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Grasssnake Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Great Burnet Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Six Spot Burnett Moth Pipe Cleaner Worksheet
• Colouring Sheet  - species of the floodplains with reference sheet (colour)
• Colouring Sheet  - species of the floodplains with reference sheet (black and white)