Holiday Workshops
for creative kids
Full day and half day options for ages 6-16, every school holiday
Exploring and learning
From paints to clay to printing, explore new mediums and techniques.
With high teacher to student ratios (min. 1:7), every child receives individual attention to support their learning. Students will take home a finished piece they can be proud of!
A welcoming space for all
Learn in a lively, sociable studio atmosphere where we all support each other.
Guided by our experienced and friendly teachers, our workshops are a space where students support and celebrate each other. We love seeing new friendships blossom every holiday!
Flexible booking options
Full day and half day sessions available – choose AM, PM or both.
In most clubs, a full day includes hosting your child here for the lunch hour – an ideal childcare option.
*Some clubs require full day students to be picked up over lunch – check your club’s booking page if booking a full day.
Childcare vouchers welcome
We’re OFSTED-registered and accept childcare voucher payments.
Check your club’s studio page to see which voucher schemes we currently accept (scroll to the bottom!)
If your voucher scheme isn’t listed, we can register upon request.
Hear from our students about why they love our workshops!
What you'll learn
Our workshops are all about exploration and discovery: learning to use new mediums in new ways, in a fun and non-pressured environment.
We design new art projects for each round of Holiday Workshops, and often bring back much-loved ones from the past. Students choose their project, bring their own ideas and creativity to make it their own, and complete a finished piece within the session.
Visit our FAQ page to learn how our holiday workshops differ to our weekly term-time classes.
Project Examples
Tamara Phillips Jellyfish
Watercolours always work well with an ocean theme! To create this project, students are encouraged to take a varied approach to using watercolours. Experimenting with using salt, bubblewrap and techniques like blending and ‘wet on wet’ produces the beautiful textures throughout the piece. Students will also learn how to add black ink to create contrast in their piece and break up areas of colour.
Clay Turtle
Clay is always a favourite among our students! As well as being super fun to work with, modelling with clay helps to develop fine motor skills, visual perception skills, creativity and focus. Students personalise the design of their turtles by choosing the colours and patterns they want to paint on the shell, head and flippers.
Shoes on the Beach
It’s wonderful seeing students’ imaginations come to life in this acrylic project. Children learn to use a variety of brush strokes to create different effects with the acrylic paint, capturing the contrast in textures between the sand, the sea and the splashing waves. Older students can challenge themselves further by painting sealife directly onto the canvas.
Klimt Tree
Students use a variety of mediums in this Klimt-inspired project. The technique is called ‘sgraffito’ and involves scratching away the outer layer of a surface to reveal the layer below. Here, we scratch black acrylic paint while it’s still wet to reveal the layer of oil pastels underneath. It’s a really fun piece of 2D art that gets students thinking about creative ways to combine different mediums!
Project Examples
To ensure our high teacher to student ratios and give every child ample room to create, our workshop spaces are limited and are often booked up quickly. We strongly suggest booking well in advance to avoid disappointment. Book through your local studio’s booking page (workshops are listed beneath our term-time classes).
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