Sat Dec 7th, Children's clay decoration Workshop, Sherington school

The Sherington Festive Craft afternoon held at Sherington School SE7 is a community event [everyone welcome] to bring families together for meaningful making with materials, mess and guidance all in one place.

In this 45min clay class we'll be creating unique Christmas decorations with your child's drawings preserved forever in studio fired stoneware.

I will have prepared a rich dark clay into stiff and partially dry shapes, over painted with a contrasting white clay.

The session allows for settling in, sketching a few ideas, and then the careful scratching through to create the design. The cost includes the studio prep & kiln & threading costs. You can pre-book additional decorations to draw on, they make really meaningful presents.

How it works:
🎄Book one session per person drawing, every session includes one pre-made decoration, state in the comments with your order which you'd prefer: tree, snowman or Gingerbread man. You can buy additional decorations which will also be ready for you when you arrive for your session.

🎄Session times are booked to make sure of work space and to avoid rushing.

🎄We’ll carefully scratch onto our decorations. From observation this works for children over 7 alone, younger will need supervision and help from you, please book your space alongside. *The tools are pointy so your child uses with your risk and your guidance*. Adults enjoy this activity too 😉

🎄all work will be marked with initials and class & I’ll return them to my local studio for a careful dry and then firing in my kiln. They'll be threaded & wrapped & ready to collect from the school office from 16th Dec.

This is for adults or children held as part of a day of crafting at Sherington School, Sherington Road, SE7. I have plenty of teaching experience & am fully DBS certified. It's not hugely messy but if you need to preserve special outfits do feel free to bring your own aprons / cover all.

NB the first session is for the families who are setting up, please only book this if you can leave your child and lend a hand with setting the rest of the larger event up.