Beatrix Potter Activity Book A book of activities for your mind, body and soul. know ou y d i D Beatrix Potter’s Pets Peter Rabbit and friends were partly based on Beatrix’ Potter’s own pets. When Potter died in 1943 at the age of 77, she left 14 farms and 4000 acres of land in the Lake District to Britain’s National Trust. A spot of history... Beatrix Potter was born on the 28th July 1866 in South Kensington, London. She lived a lonely life at home, being educated by a governess and having little contact with other people. She had many animals which she kept as pets, studying them and making drawings. Her parents took her on three month summer holidays to Scotland, but when the house they rented became unavailable, they rented Wray Castle near Ambleside in the Lake District. Beatrix was 16 when they first stayed here. Her parents entertained many eminent guests, including Hardwicke Rawnsley vicar of Low Wray Church, who in 1895 was to become one of the founders of the National Trust. His views on the need to preserve the natural beauty of Lakeland had a lasting effect on the young Beatrix, who had fallen in love with the unspoilt beauty surrounding the holiday home. For the next 21 years on and off, the Potters holidayed in the Lake District. Rawnsley encouraged her drawings, and when back in London Beatrix made greetings cards of her pictures, and started a book. Rawnsley encouraged her to publish, and eventually Frederick Warne published ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ in 1902. Her third book, ‘Squirrel Nutkin’ had background views based on Derwentwater, Catbells and the Newlands valley. Fawe Park featured in ‘The Tale of Benjamin Bunny’. Beatrix Potter married William Heelis, a solicitor in Hawkshead, in 1913. Then started the next stage in her life, being a Lakeland farmer, which lasted for 30 years. The office of William Heelis is now the National Trust’s ‘Beatrix Potter Gallery‘. In 1934 she gave many of her watercolours and drawings of fungi, mosses and fossils to the Armitt Library in Ambleside. Dot-to-Dot Join the dots to reveal Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter’s Maze Colouring Page We Have a Little Garden By Beatrix Potter We have a little garden, A garden of our own, And every day we water there The seeds that we have sown. We love our little garden, And tend it with such care, You will not find a faced leaf Or blighted blossom there. Colour in this picture of Mrs Tiggy Winkle Word Search Find the Beatrix Potter Characters. FLOPSY SQUIRREL NUTKIN WHISKERS PETER RABBIT MISS MOPPET BENJAMIN BUNNY TIGGY WINKLE JEMIMA Word search Solutions.