Painting and Printing with Plant Colors: Creative Family Fun in Bayreuth

Colors from Nature: A Creative Family Afternoon in Bayreuth

In the course Painting and Printing with Plant Colors, families with children discover how fresh plants create color pastes and turn fabrics into vivid patterns. The date is planned for Saturday, 18.07.2026, from 14:00 to 17:00 at the Diversity Nursery Radies und Das in Colmdorf near Bayreuth. The course is aimed at families with children from preschool age and costs 30.00 Euros including materials. ([fbs.bayreuth.org](https://www.fbs.bayreuth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fbs-programm.pdf))

Learning and Creating with All Senses

Here, children's laughter meets nature experience: Participants harvest dye plants together, process them into color pastes, and try out various techniques. This creates a child-friendly learning experience, boosts creativity, and makes knowledge about nature immediately tangible. Educationally, the offer fits well with the goals of family education in Bayreuth, which focuses on development, exchange, and age-appropriate impulses. ([fbs.bayreuth.org](https://www.fbs.bayreuth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/fps-paedagogisches-konzept.pdf))

Experimenting, Printing, Proudly Taking Home

Especially exciting for families: Own motifs are created with brush and stencil printing while it is explained how to prepare fabrics so that the colors hold well. This fosters fine motor skills, concentration, and the collaborative efforts of parents and children. The course is led by Marie Schönheiter, an art and cultural mediator, which gives the course a professional framework. ([fbs.bayreuth.org](https://www.fbs.bayreuth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fbs-programm.pdf))

Family-Friendly and Safely Organized

The location in the nursery creates a nature-close atmosphere, providing many impressions for children. Sources indicate that the Family Educational Institution Bayreuth works with an educational concept, pays attention to a safe framework, offers child- and family-friendly offerings, and also integrates nature and forest pedagogy as well as creative age-appropriate offers into its work. ([fbs.bayreuth.org](https://www.fbs.bayreuth.org/infos/ueber-uns/))

What Families Can Expect On-Site

The event is suitable for families who want to try out new things together and creatively use natural materials. The workshop is designed as a compact 3-hour session and offers time for practical work, joint exploration, and small successes. Families looking for an inspiring outing with fun learning will find a special summer offer in Bayreuth here. ([fbs.bayreuth.org](https://www.fbs.bayreuth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fbs-programm.pdf))

Conclusion: This family experience connects nature, creativity, and shared time in a particularly beautiful way. Children experience colors with all their senses, parents actively accompany the process, and in the end, everyone goes home with new ideas and self-designed results. A lively course date that families in Bayreuth should experience directly. ([fbs.bayreuth.org](https://www.fbs.bayreuth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fbs-programm.pdf))

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• Family Educational Institution Bayreuth - Program
• Family Educational Institution Bayreuth - About Us
• Family Educational Institution Bayreuth - Educational Concept
• Radies & Das - Diversity Nursery
• City of Bayreuth - Family Educational Institution