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Hey, I'm glad you found your way to my website about 'Teaching Children Conservation Through Art'. Welcome. Hopefully, it'll add a splash of colour to your day. 
 

Drawing, colouring and painting are great ways for young people to express themselves, especially if they haven't mastered speech yet. A child's mind is a magical place full of adventure, and when translated through art, the results can be enchanting. Whether it's in a workshop or at home with my kids, every tiny mark made tells its own unique story about how we can help the environment around the world. 

Doodleswithmydaughter.co.uk™ was born more than four years ago to showcase the art my daughter, Rose, and I created while teaching her the importance of Conservation as a toddler. Since then, it has evolved, and I've been leading Conservation Art workshops effectively for boys and girls in pre-schools, primary schools, and online.

Stemming from my workshops in Summer 2018 and continuing until today - Spring 2022 - I've been fortunate enough to help Mad Hatter's Nursery, Greatham Village Nursery School, Liphook Infant School and Hollycombe Primary School to win Silver and Bronze Awards for efforts in Conservation. These have been given by Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots education programme for young people.

​To browse available Conservation Art or Greeting Cards, please visit; https://www.doodleswithmydaughter.co.uk/shop. 

Gorilla with heart and four leaf clover. Gorilla conservation

When the UK went into its first lockdown due to COVID-19 in March 2020, I began running my workshops remotely online. These quickly went international, helping keep children occupied and learning in a fun way during uncertain times, from the UK to Ireland, Europe and Africa, encouraging larger groups of kids to grow up being more mindful and respectful towards our incredible planet.

In September 2020, I teamed up with eleCREW, a charity organisation with a vision of Africa where elephants and humans coexist in a balanced environment, to pilot a Conservation Art programme for young children in the Victoria Falls area of Zimbabwe, as by September 2020, the kids had been out of school for seven months.

 

CEO of eleCREW, Jake Rendle-Worthington, confirmed how my workshops were being so well received and effective in the cause that I continue to run them regularly and welcome seeing increasing numbers of children join every time, all keen to learn about crucial Conservation topics relevant to Africa and worldwide, and how they can help. After all, children are the bright stars of the future.

Please visit 'Conservation Workshops' to find out more.

​There is also a selection of beautiful and unique framed Conservation Art prints ready to hang on the wall, along with Greeting Cards, available through my shop; https://www.doodleswithmydaughter.co.uk/shop. 

About

Doodles with my daughter

 

 

I'm a creative person born with a passion for art which I seem to have passed onto my little girl. Teaching young children the paramount importance of conservation, and how to look after our planet better so that all life forms can continue to thrive for future generations, is something we can do through drawing and painting and is essential to the success of our being.

Nurturing the relationship between children's art and conservation is my quest. It's the sentiment behind the art that can be the learning.

My work background is in Communications, and I have a degree in Anthropology BSc from UCL, which I found fascinating as it enabled me to focus my interests in Man's Early Art, Conservation, Human Ecology and Primatology. 

I continued to develop my passion for art by taking courses at London Fine Art Studios. Skills I hope will make this an enticing website for you browse.

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DOODLES GALLERY

Feel free to check out the doodles Rose and I have created together. We hope they'll add a splash of colour to your life.

CONSERVATION WORKSHOPS

I lead workshops where I

Teach Children Conservation Through Art.

TESTIMONIALS

'Diana prepares these sessions with obvious great care and thoughtfulness. She delivers them at just the right level for our pre-schoolers, and while she talks about creatures and animals that are endangered, along with what the children can do to help, we observe the impact these workshops are having on our children from the 'wow' moments that happen during, and after, the workshops. 

 

Diana has a very respectful, caring attitude towards the children, and they respond by soaking up the important information she's giving them. With the way Diana is teaching them conservation, the seeds that are being planted in their minds today will surely bear fruit in years to come and indeed help conserve our planet.'

Mrs Elaine Chiverton
Owner of Mad Hatter's Nursery

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