After a smash-hit, sold-out workshop last year, the Pumpkin People are returning to Chelsea Physic Garden!

Join us as we cast our creative spells and magic up another menacing crowd of pumpkins, gourds and squashes. Give your character a weird face, wonky turnip ears, a misshapen carrot nose and a spectacularly bad hair day before adding glitter, spiders and other fiendish finishing touches.

With no carving involved, this is a playful and family-friendly way to transform seasonal produce into a wonderfully strange character of your own. Come in fancy dress, we will be, and let the creative mayhem begin!

What to Expect

Choose your pumpkin character and bring it to life using vegetables, craft materials and plenty of imagination.

Our facilitators will be on hand to help you develop your design and assemble your peculiar new friend. There will be no pumpkin carving, making this a relaxed activity for families to enjoy together.

Small prizes and Halloween treats will be available for all participants.

What’s Included

• A pumpkin, gourd or squash character to decorate
• Seasonal vegetables and creative embellishments
• All crafting materials, tools and equipment
• Guidance throughout the activity
• Halloween treats and small prizes
• Your finished Pumpkin Person to take home

Who Is It For?

This is a family-friendly workshop for children and their grown-up ghouls. Children must be accompanied by an adult throughout the session.

Fancy dress is warmly encouraged!

About Chelsea Physic Garden

Established in 1673, Chelsea Physic Garden is London’s oldest botanic garden. For over 350 years, it has been a place for discovering the remarkable ways plants can be used for medicine, food and wellbeing. Today, the Garden brings people and plants together through horticulture, learning and creative experiences for all ages.