Hearts & Flowers and Vinegar Valentines
Have fun this half term by creating Victorian themed Valentine Crafts at Ripon’s Victorian Workhouse. Roll up your sleeves and do some felting to create hearts from wool strands. Plant some Heartsease seedlings to take home. Also known as Love-in-idleness, this plant was used as a love potion in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Find out more about vinegar valentines, the cards you would rather not receive! Often decorated with a rude caricature and insulting poem millions of these moc
Museum open 10am – 4pm. Activities run from 11am – 3pm daily.
Workhouse Museum entry prices apply, activities free.
Entry Adult £6.50 (concs £6), Child (6-15 years) £5, Under 5s admitted for free.
Ripon Workhouse Museum, Sharow View, Allhallowgate, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 1LE
Mon 15 Feb to Fri 19 Feb 2016