5 sessions from Mon 9 Oct 2023 [Show]
Join us for a week immersed in a wide range of explorative art and crafts activities!
Each day a visiting artist will lead art workshops with the children, supported by our creative playworkers. We cover a wide variety of art and crafts with a focus on learning and most of all FUN! With access to a full range of arts facilites and equipment, and use of our extensive grounds, lawns, gardens and woodland.
WEEK 1> 9-13 October 2023
Our daily activities are listed at the bottom of this page. Please note that some days have still to be confirmed, but these will be as exciting, fun and educational as always!
The club is for children aged 5-12 years and will run from 9am – 3.30pm
(drop off from 9am-9.30am, pick up 3.30pm sharp)
The club costs £30 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments, and snack.
Children will need to bring their own packed lunch and raincoat/sunscreen.
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible, so please pack raincoats as well as dressing in suitable clothing and footwear.
Please select the days that you wish to book, and for how many, then proceed to fill in your children’s details.
Please note that we are not a registered childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
The club is made up of a series of creative art activity workshops. If your child does not enjoy art, or a busy environment, please look to book them into a more suitable workshop. We want all of our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment.
FREE PLACES -
There are 4 free places available each day for families with low income, such as those in receipt of Universal Credit. If this applies to you, and would benefit your family, please add your preferred dates to your basket and proceed to fill in the child's details.
We suggest to make use of one or two days per child over the 2 weeks, so that other families also have the opportunity to benefit from the sessions. Any additional bookings will be removed.
These few places are much needed, so please be considerate when booking so that these can be shared amongst other children too.
*We reserve the right to enquire which benefit you are in receipt of.
We are pleased to invite back artist Guen Rota for Monday and Tuesday of week 1:
Monday 9 October:
Postcards from the holidays We will make our own paper and we will make cards and compositions using a wide range of organic materials combined with mark making techniques. Can we transform some abstract shapes into recognizable subjects? Are we able to create postcards from our recent holidays using found material? It’s a lovely way to bring back happy memories on these colder days.
Tuesday 10 October:
A journey amongst natural dyes and printmaking Today we will get ready for the upcoming festivities: Halloween and Christmas. We will use natural dyes to create delicate winter imagery, using coffee, blueberries, beetroots and more. We will only need a gentle touch of metallic paint to create some magic. We will also create some pumpkins, ghosts and skeletons and we will fill the room exploring some printmaking techniques
Artists and children's book Illustrator Lindsey Gardiner will join us again for lots of drawing fun and charachter creations for Wednesday 11 and Thursday 11 Ocober (activity breakdown to follow)
*There has been a change to plans for Wednesday and Thursday due to an artist falling ill. Wednesday shall now be as per below with Thursday to be confirmed.
Wednesday 11 October: With Artist Becky Brewis
Invent animals, characters and a fantastical landscape, with printmaking and collage. Covering various printmaking techniques, we’ll create our own stencils and learn how to make monoprints, before moving onto relief printing in the afternoon, with styrofoam. We’ll also use mark-making techniques to prepare our own monoprinted papers for making beautiful colourful collages with.
Thursday 12 october:
How to make a picture book - Thinking of our favourite books and why we like them, we will look at the features that appeal to you and begin to make our own. Creating little narratives, making a beginning, middle and end and adding some characters to bring it all to life!
What would your characters get up to in the garden, in the woods or in a wilderness!? Let your character develop over the day through art and play.
Friday will be taught by our visiting Artists, Becky Brewis -
Friday 20 October:
A day of exploring textures and discovering new materials starts with getting out in the garden for inspiration from the natural world. We will be making autumnal crayon prints, before using clay to make plaster casts of leaves and shells.
Developing our new mould-making skills, we’ll make (and paint!) plaster reliefs to hang on the wall at home, based on drawings and patterns of our own invention. There’ll also be a chance to make a coil pot (with clay that will dry at home) and imprint it with all the seasonal textures and patterns we’ve discovered.
No tickets are currently available to book.