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Leaf Rubbing Habitat

By: Nancy Murphy, education intern
The Brandywine Valley is lush with plant life, especially in the summer months. Using collected leaves you find outside, try out this fun DIY project to create your own colorful work of art! Adding pollinators fluttering about gives your artwork another dimension.
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Preserving a Maxfield Parrish Family Scrapbook

By: Christoforos Sassaris, Research Center Intern
Discover a fascinating family scrapbook that belonged to Philadelphia-born painter Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) and learn about the efforts to preserve it for future research in the Brandywine's Walter and Leonore Annenberg Research Center.
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Accordion Memory Book

By: Kaziah Lucas-Innocent, Education intern
With just a few simple materials, you can create a unique keepsake for yourself or a friend. Follow along for inspiration in creating an easy accordion book to store photos and mementos.
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Henry Louis Stephens’ Frogs and Other Anthropomorphic Animals

By: Christoforos Sassaris, Research Center Intern
Go behind the scenes of the Brandywine's Walter and Leonore Annenberg Research Center as we dive into the Henry Louis Stephens Collection, which contains original drawings, published work and research materials relating to the Philadelphia-born illustrator, cartoonist, author and editor.
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Paper Platonic Solids

By: Todd Stong, education intern

Inspired by the Brandywine’s new special exhibition “Ralston Crawford: Air & Space & War,” I wanted to make a craft that could merge Crawford’s multiple abstract languages—his loose, sketchy drawings and his hard-edge, geometric paintings. Handmade paper platonic solids seemed...

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