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Kids Father Christmas Puppet Workshop and other Creative Fun

Join us the weekend before Christmas for a great creative family session!  From 10:30 -2:30 we will be running a bookable session where families can come and get thoroughly festive together.

Book an hour-long session where your children can get Christmas creative!  We will have a range of activities on hand from making a Father Christmas hand-puppet (suitable from 6 up if sewing and from 3 if gluing with help from caregivers), to making your own Christmas giftbag, cracker making, festive bookmarks, tree decoration, giftwrap printing and card making.

We will also have festive music and festive treats!

compostie image showing the types of things you can do during the session

The cost to book in for the Christmas creative activities is £4.90 per child.  It will also be possible to drop in and pay for activities individually during the session.

 

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Mini Monets Coming Soon

Have children between 6 months and five years and want to get creative with them but don’t want your house covered in paint, glitter, glue and more arty loveliness?  Considering joining a baby creative group but don’t want to spend your time making the item for your child rather than them being able to fully engage?  Want to join a new Fareham based group run by two local mums who just so happen to be professional artists and workshop facilitators working with major galleries and arts organisations?

 

Then look no further!!

“Mini Monets” is a new artist-led not for profit accessible art group where babies from 6 months up until 5 can collaborate and have creative fun with each other and their care givers!  Through the sessions we will introduce babies and young children to brilliant artists through characters from well-known books and popular culture and create large scale collaborative art pieces through play and safe materials.

 

As parents of young children ourselves it is important to us that this group is suitable for all small children irrespective of whether they’re a crawler or walker.  Because of this these sessions will have sensory aspects, storytime, play time and more.

 

Our sessions will be held on a Thursday between 10:30am and midday and will cost £6.50 a session with a half-term payable in advance. For the half term leading up to the festive break this will be £39 (six sessions).  If siblings attend this will be reduced to £70 for both of them, a saving of £9 (sadly we cannot offer more of a discount due to the costs of our materials not decreasing with numbers).  If a walking child attends then a sibling babe in arms will be free.

 

More information and booking form coming soon!

Shared with Us: Puppets

Our most recent workshop was led by the great Steph Reeves of Gynormous Rawkus where she taught participants to have a go at making their own puppets out of junk and other materials they can find around the home.  We are lucky enough that some of our participants were happy to share with us what they made during Wednesday 1st July’s session.

Penelope Puppet made during our session by Shirley Accini
Penelope Puppet made by Shirley Accini
Puppet by Rose Popay
Puppet made during our session by Rose Popay and Mum

 

 

 

 

 

Week 6 – Steph Reeves (Gynormous Rawkus) – Junk Puppets

It’s week 6 of our Culture @ Home programme and we were lucky enough to have Steph Reeves of Gynormous Rawkus  join us this week to show us how to make a puppet out of the junk you have lying around at home and a few other materials.

This week is doubly special as our session took place as part of Children’s Art Week, a two-week celebration of free activities for children.

Our Culture at Home sessions as made possible thanks to Arts Council England Emergency Response funding, which has enabled us to pay creatives to share their talents with you at home, making it free for you!  We still have 7 sessions coming up, with each one being suitable for children, so to find out more and book a session (always at 2pm on a Wednesday), visit liveartlocal.co.uk/culture-home

 

To join this session you will need:

Cardboard; pens; scraps of paper or fabric; carrier bags; newspaper; tape (preferably double-sided and masking).  Pipe cleaners and other scraps are also very useful!

 

 

 

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