Children's Art Club is our artist-led creative programme for 5-12 year olds.

A creative week with artist Josie Jones inspired by local traditions and folklore.

With sessions focusing on printmaking, sculpture, cyanotype, and mixed-media craft with a focus on seasonal exploration, creating a journey of tactile wonder. This week's Children's Art Club theme is seasonal exploration, imagination, and sensory play, connecting children with the natural world and local cultural traditions.

Inspired by Fife and local traditions, activities will include apple Gelli printing, creatures of the forest map making, dressed herring sculpture, and cyanotype print soups using natural dyes. Children will experiment with textures, colours, and natural forms, building a deeper connection to the season and their environment. 

Monday: Apple Picking Holiday
Children will carve apples for Gelli printing.

Tuesday: Fae Folk Foraging
Into the garden to create fairy offerings (Fae Folk Foraging).

Wednesday: Dressed Herring
Collage large-scale herring sculpture.

Friday: Autumnal Cyanotypes
Make cyanotype print soups with plant-based seasonal dyes.

By experimenting with textures, colours, patterns, and natural forms of their surroundings, enriching their connection to this time of year and their homes.

The activities are flexible for indoor or outdoor settings.

About the Artist
Josie Jones is a Dundee-based visual artist and DJCAD graduate (BA Hons Fine Art, 2020). Her practice explores the relationship between botanical and geological elements in nature, and their significance in culture, ritual, and local traditions. She has exhibited widely, including with the Royal Scottish Academy, Visual Arts Scotland, and Tatha Gallery, and was awarded the RSA Chalmers-Jervis Prize (2022) and the Ian Eadie Award for Painting (2020). She held a solo exhibition in Iceland at Menningarstofa Fjarðabyggðar Cultural Centre where she was awarded a funded research residency (2025). Alongside her studio practice, Josie runs workshops for children and adults, drawing on her experience as a part time nursery assistant.

Details

What: Art, play, nature and learning for 5-12 year olds. Each day, the visiting Lead Artist for the week will spark the children’s creativity, supported by a Creative Play Worker.

When: The club runs Monday-Thursday. Drop off is from 9am-9.30am. Pick up is at 3.30pm sharp.

Cost: The club costs £35 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments and snack. A limited number of low income places are available.

What do we need to bring?
Children will need to bring their own packed lunch, as well as and an outdoor coat and 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. We might get a little messy indoors too.

Suitability
The club is for all children with a love of art and crafts. Whilst Art Club is a fun, safe, supportive environment, it can be busy and noisy. We’re not a registered childcare provider and as such don’t have additional support beyond our artists and play workers. If you would like to discuss accessibility and/or attend as a carer for your child please give us a call.

Low Income Places
If you receive benefits such as income-based Council Tax, are unemployed or unable to work, these tickets are for you. There are two free places available for each session. We ask that you select one session per week, per child, so that we can share these places amongst low income families.

Please note, our Universal credit ticket no longer exists. As Universal Credit has recently restructured, our free ticket criteria has been updated to make sure that these are reaching the families who cannot afford them otherwise.