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Hands-on botanical art and science using natural materials and simple processes What colours are hidden inside leaves and flowers? How can sunlight create beautiful blueprints from plants? What patterns and textures can we discover when we slow down and really look at the natural world? Welcome to The Plant Art Lab, a creative, hands-on pre-recorded online module that blends art, science, and nature into a series of beautiful botanical investigations. Using leaves, flowers, grasses, sunlight, clay, and simple materials, learners will explore the fascinating science hidden within the plants around them while creating unique works of art inspired by the natural world. Throughout the module, young artists and scientists will experiment with striking cyanotype prints, create detailed leaf rubbings and prints, investigate colour-changing pH indicators made from garden plants, paint with natural pigments, and discover the textures and patterns found in grasses, leaves, seeds, and flowers. They'll also explore impressions in clay, make artwork using foraged natural materials, and even create their own natural paintbrushes. Each activity encourages careful observation, creativity, curiosity, and scientific thinking. Perfect for curious thinkers, nature lovers, creative children and families, The Plant Art Lab invites learners to step outside, gather natural treasures, and transform them into beautiful artistic creations while developing a deeper understanding of the science that surrounds them every day. Part art studio, part science laboratory, and part nature journal, this inspiring topic celebrates the wonder, beauty, and hidden science of the living world - one leaf, petal, and print at a time.