Family Half Term Holiday Creative Workshop – Lamp Making for children and their adults for a full family experience. Working together to learn lifelong skills.

This half term holiday, why not book onto a lamp making workshop. Children will have the opportunity to explore their creativity in a family-focused lamp-making workshop. Guided by myself and my husband Peter Lanyon, participants will learn the basics of lampshade design, and woodworking with hand tools.

Each child will make a lampshade using wax-resist pastels and high-quality watercolour paints, allowing them to personalise their creations.

The hands-on woodworking experience not only fosters creative skills but also encourages children to use and explore sharp tools in a safe, nurturing environment. Starting with a simple stem they will learn to use the drawknife and spokeshave to create an elegant tapering lamp stem. They will refine the shape of their base, mount the stem, and learn some simple electrical wiring skills. By the end of the workshop, each child will leave with a handcrafted lamp to brighten their bedroom, instilling a sense of accomplishment and pride in their work.

This is a half-day course. Minimum age – 8. Each child must be accompanied by a paying adult with a maximum of two children per adult. Adults will also produce a lamp.

If adults don’t want to make a lamp they don’t need to pay for a place, but they will need to stay to support the child they bring.

Saturday 15th February 2025 and Saturday 5th April 2025 – Arrive 12.40pm, leave at 5pm.

Healthy drinks and snacks provided.

Please advise of any allergies.

£60 per person.

For more information and booking, please click on the link.

https://www.peterlanyonfurniture.co.uk/courses-1/p/childrenswoodworking

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Christmas bunting workshop – recycled aluminium

WHAT: Why not come along to this workshop to get yourself in a real Christmas festive mood at the start of the school Christmas school holidays. Make some handmade, recycled, upcycled festive bunting.

In this workshop, we will be designing and making some recycled aluminium bunting by embossing patterns onto pre cut shapes, using a selection of embossing tools along with recycled ones. You will string your finished shapes onto some festive string for you to hang up in your home.

This workshop is suitable for adults and children over 7. Any participating adults accompanying children will need to also purchase a place on the workshop. Word of warning, there will be sharp edges, so care needs to be taken!

WHERE: Newton Ferrers WI Hall, 4 Parsonage Road, Newton Ferrers, PL8 1AS

WHEN: Monday 18th December, 2023

WHO: children over 7, and adults

Summer workshops… making a cover for a little sketchbook

Really simple… print some paper with nice colours and patterns, cover a little sketchbook with it and make a little expanding envelope, stick it in, smile, and voila! Now you have a special book to record all your musings, doodling, stick momentoes into…

A veryveryvery quiet workshop as everybody was away on holidays (though when you live in Devon, you don’t REALLY need to go away anywhere on holiday!)

Summer workshops… butterfly symmetry printing

This was my busiest workshop of the summer… I’m not sure how many people came but it was BUUUUSY, lots dropping in throughout the morning, this was another one run with Bovey help hub. I didn’t manage to get photos of everybody’s work, but what I’ve got images of here is great

I did little demos of how to do symmetrical printing, showed them where all the sequins, glue and collage bits were, then left them to it… again i absolutely LOVE what the kids came up with… I hope all these beautiful works of art have pride of place brightening up their homes around Bovey Tracey.

Kids Art Club Workshops – symmetry printing and 3-D beetles

Being inspired by the incredible patterns and forms of beetles, butterflies, moths and stick insects from around the world, the children started on making beautiful symmetry prints using acrylic paints as well as drawing with oil pastels. They spent an entire session just playing with the paints, building up layers of textures and colours on A3, A4, A5 and A6 pieces of good quality thick art paper which would be strong enough for constructing but still easy enough to fold and cut. I don’t like to give kids rubbishy art materials just because they are young! I want them to feel that their artwork deserves quality ingredients.

On week 2 they cut their papers and constructed some amazing creatures, wild enough to rival nature! This demanded some real engineering skills and I was so impressed by how they all helped each other and shared their ideas around for making them 3-D. I had shown them a few ways to turn a flat surface into 3-D one but actually they invesnted their own ways too! Have a look at some of their creatures which wouldn’t look out of place in an undisturbed jungle… 

Spacefruit Art Club Workshops

I’ve spent the past year running Art Clubs to mostly Key Stage 2 children in 2 of my local primary schools.

It has been some of the most enjoyable and rewarding work I have ever done!

Some art projects have included Papier Mache cacti, dice rolling abstract mixed media art game, incredible 3-D beetles made from wonderful decorated card which the printed themselves, playing with making stamps and decorating and covering their own small sketch book, amazing mini puppet theatres made from cardboard boxes, and clay animals.

It was hard to take photos when we were all so busy and right in the moment but I’ve taken a few. I shall write individual posts about each project. I am now planning some children’s art workshops for after Easter and over the summer holidays around South Hams Devon, perfect for your creative children and maybe some adult workshops too! To hear more about these, please add your name to the contact me page and leave a message in the box so I know that you’re interested in workshops.