Workshops for Children and Youth

Would you like to learn the traditional technique of decorating eggs with wax and a stylus? Join us for creative workshops open to both children and adults!

Dates and Registration:

• For children
• (ages 6–14): April 5, 6, 12, and 13, starting at 11 AM.
• Participation fee: 300 RSD.

What to bring?

• Two hard-boiled eggs
• A bit of onion peel

Learn more

As society evolves, some traditional crafts and professions naturally fade away. By raising awareness about reducing the amount of wool waste, we open up multiple opportunities to apply felting techniques in modern life.

Through felting workshops at the Ethnographic Museum, we aim to contribute to the preservation of intangible cultural heritage and to showcase contemporary uses of items created using this technique. Just as traditional skills were passed down from generation to generation, today they continue to adapt through new environments and interactions.

It’s essential to keep renewing our heritage through time, enriching it with new interpretations and creations, thus maintaining a sense of continuity and identity.

Find out more via the link.

Children receive a worksheet with photos of museum exhibits and descriptions explaining their names and uses. The task is to match the image with the explanation and then find the actual object in the exhibition. Through play and searching for hidden items, they discover how their ancestors lived — what kind of homes they had, which holidays they celebrated, and what objects like testija, buklija, vile, and vrška were used for. In the second part of the workshop, they visit the new exhibition “Memory” where, with the help of an audio guide and headphones, they learn what Ethnographic Museum curators have discovered during fieldwork across Serbia over the last hundred years.

Using a stylus and wax, children and parents draw patterns on eggs inspired by Easter egg motifs from the museum’s collection. The eggs are dyed with natural colors — onion peel and madder root. These workshops are intended for parents and children.

Dates and further details available via the link.

By placing images of household items once used in rural homes on a floor plan of a mountain house interior, children learn how people used to live in the countryside. They then embark on an adventure to find those items in the exhibition.

Exploring traditional folk costumes and the decorative motifs used on aprons, children are encouraged to create their own patterns inspired by Serbian cultural heritage.

The designs are made using string glued to cardboard.

In the section of the exhibition dedicated to folk costumes, children search for ornaments on aprons, then use them as inspiration to create their own designs using collage techniques — combining halves and quarters of colorful paper.

Through play, they also learn about fractions by counting how many halves and quarters their art piece includes.

While listening to a fairy tale and solving challenges along the way, children discover the spiritual, social, and material culture of the past. This helps them understand historical processes and explore the richness of folk creativity and Serbian traditional culture.

The workshop begins with a memory game in which children find cards featuring characters, princesses, mythical creatures, and magical items. On the exhibition tour, they search for hidden objects, overcome obstacles, learn archaic expressions, identify moral values, and discuss how to resist temptation, make good decisions, and stay true to themselves.

By matching illustrated cards with concepts, children learn how Christmas and Christmas Eve were celebrated in the past and how they are celebrated today. They then begin the adventure of making česnica, a traditional Christmas bread, while learning the symbolism of its decorations. Each child takes home their own small česnica — a baked piece of dough they shaped and decorated themselves.

This workshop is held during the winter season.