Discovering our land and natural environment… The 4 elements that make up our planet – water, fire, earth and air – will be at the heart of this fun and educational festival.
An inter-generational event, the 4 Elements Festival has been designed around the principle of identity and the natural riches of the village. The programme for this themed week includes fun and creative workshops, discovery outings and guided tours, festive events for all the family, shows…
Monday 17 July 🎉
9.30am : Mountain walk : Discover medicinal mountain plants, pick and prepare an authentic mountain remedy. Bring walking shoes and a lift pass for the Mont Chéry cable car. Dogs not allowed.
👉 €12 for adults and €8 for 8-12 year-olds.
🕓 2h30
📍Office de Tourisme
🙋♂️ From age 8
To register
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm : Insect hotel workshop : The workshop that retrieves, recycles and transforms. Come and make your own insect hotel. All the materials and tools are provided.
5€ per person
🕓 1h00
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 4
To register
2.30 pm – 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm : “Occasional gardener” workshop : A recipe to sample, straight from the garden! The ultimate family activity, for children of all ages, even very young (accompanied by an adult) for an introduction to the garden and its inhabitants…
6€ per person
🕓 1h00
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 5
To register
4.00 pm and 4.45 pm : Kite-making workshop : Come and make your own kite under the guidance of experts who have come to Les Gets specially. You’ll then learn to fly your kite and will be able to take it home with you!
2€ per person
🕓 45 min
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 3
To register
6.00pm : Show – The Dudes : Surprises, live music, circus acts and physical comedy, all united in a merry mix that’s impressive yet delicate. A pleasant experience for children and adults.
👉 Free
🕓 45 min
📍 Front de neige
Tuesday 18 July 🎉
8.30 am : Fauna and flora outing : Discover the fauna and flora of the Alps with a mountain leader. Bring walking shoes.
5€ per person
🕓 3h30
📍Office de Tourisme
🙋♂️ From age 8
To register
10.30am : An introduction to panning for gold : Or-Norm offers a fun way to learn the secrets behind gold-panning techniques. Children and adults will go panning for gold with all the necessary tools and will leave with some specks of real gold.
👉 5€ per family (3 to 4 people)
🕓 1h15
📍Esplanade
To register
2.30pm – 3.30pm – 4.30pm : Firelighter workshop :Production of a firelighter from spruce resin, and a leather storage pouch.
👉 6€ per person
🕓 1h00
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 10
To register
4.00 pm and 4.45 pm : Wind-turbine workshop : Come and make your own wind turbine under the guidance of experts who have come to Les Gets specially. Build a windmill and take it away with you.
2€ per person
🕓 45 min
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 3
To register
10pm : Fire show : Stand back! A fire show with choreography, music and style. With electro and hip-hop influences!
👉 Free
🕓 30 min
📍 Front de neige
Wednesday 19 July 🎉
9.30am and 11.00am : An introduction to panning for gold : Or-Norm offers a fun way to learn the secrets behind gold-panning techniques. Children and adults will go panning for gold with all the necessary tools and will leave with some specks of real gold.
👉 5€ per family (3 to 4 people)
🕓 1h15
📍Esplanade
To register
10.30am – 11.15am – 2.30pm – 3.15pm – 4pm : Birdhouse workshop : Make and decorate your own bird box.
👉 5€ per person
🕓 45 min
🙋♂️ From age 7 (before accompanied)
📍Esplanade
To register
2.30pm : Become a botanist with Père Delavay : Would you like to become a budding botanist? Take the game booklet available from the Tourist Office and enjoy a ride on the little train, where clues will be revealed to help you collect the plants!
👉 Free
🕓 2h00
📍Télécabine du Mont-Chéry
✏️ Registration at the Tourist Office
2.30pm : Make-up workshop : Mamzelle Pastel is back with her colourful make-up looks. She invites you to add a little colour and glitter to your life!
👉 Free
🕓 5 min
🙋♂️ From age 3
📍Esplanade
To register
4.00 pm and 4.45 pm : Kite-making workshop : Come and make your own kite under the guidance of experts who have come to Les Gets specially. You’ll then learn to fly your kite and will be able to take it home with you!
2€ per person
🕓 45 min
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 3
To register
6.00 pm : Rodando show : Show with tightrope-walking, tango performances and balancing acts.
👉 Free
🕓 30 min
📍Front de neige
Thursday 20 July 🎉
8.30am : Bird-watching excursion : Nature walk with an ornithologist to observe local bird species.
👉 5€ per person
🕓 3h30
🙋♂️ From age 8
📍Office de Tourisme
To register
9.00am: Walking-pole workshop : As a hiking aid or just for decoration, who has never used a walking pole? Design your own walking pole, engraved with your name or decorated with a coloured stone.
6€ per person
🕓 1h00
🙋♂️ From age 6
📍Esplanade
To register
9.30am and 11.00am : An introduction to panning for gold : Or-Norm offers a fun way to learn the secrets behind gold-panning techniques. Children and adults will go panning for gold with all the necessary tools and will leave with some specks of real gold.
👉 5€ per family (3 to 4 people)
🕓 1h15
📍Esplanade
To register
10.30am – 2.30pm – 4.30pm : Terrarium workshop : A garden in a glass. Martine will share with you all her little secrets to help you make your own. All the materials and tools are provided, but take advantage of your walks in Les Gets to collect the plants you’d like to use!
👉 6€ per person
🕓 1h00
🙋♂️ From age 6
📍Esplanade
To register
2.30pm : Barefoot walking in the peat bogs of the Chablais Geopark : Imagine progressing with a sense of weightlessness, between the elements of water and earth. Walking barefoot, guided in this somewhat misunderstood living habitat, your senses will be boosted by an energy that has accumulated since the last ice age.
👉 4€ per person
🕓 2h00
🙋♂️ From age 6
📍Lac des écoles
To register
4.00 pm and 4.45 pm : Glider workshop : Come and make your own glider under the guidance of experts who have come to Les Gets specially. You’ll then learn to make it fly and will be able to take it home with you.
👉 2€ per person
🕓 45 min
🙋♂️ From age 3
📍Esplanade
To register
6.00pm : Show – La tente d’Edgar (Edgar’s tent) : A tent on wheels from somewhere else… An unidentified public object or a whimsical cabinet of curiosities. It creaks, it rattles, it growls… The unreal invites itself into your home!
🕓 55 min
👉 Free
📍Esplanade
Friday 21 July 🎉
10.30am – 11.30am – 2.30pm – 3.30pm – 4.30pm : Candle-holder workshop : Light up your evenings with a handmade candle holder. Small glass, glitter and paint provided
👉 3€ per person
🕓 1h00
🙋♂️ From age 4
📍Esplanade
To register
12.00 pm- 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm : Bird-of-prey show, Les Aigles du Léman : The Aigles du Leman put on a show for you with their most beautiful and impressive birds of prey!
👉 Free
🕓 20 min
📍Lac des écoles
2.30pm: Bambins des bois : Pierre invites children to visit his carpentry workshop to learn to drill, saw along a line and make a wooden figurine.
👉 2€ per person
🕓 25 min
🙋♂️ From age 5
📍Place de la maison des Gets
To register
4.00 pm and 4.45 pm : Kite-making workshop : Come and make your own kite under the guidance of experts who have come to Les Gets specially. You’ll then learn to fly your kite and will be able to take it home with you!
2€ per person
🕓 45 min
📍Esplanade
🙋♂️ From age 3
To register
