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Arty Bods: Summer School

Arty Bods: Summer School is an exciting set of art workshops designed for kids aged 5-11 years old.

Each workshop will be led by artist and Lauren Saunders. Together as a group, your child will get to grips with a range of art materials and techniques, and explore creativity in an art gallery setting.

Using the current exhibitions at Humber Street Gallery as inspiration, young artists will be able to develop their artistic skills from week-to-week. Or if you’re not sure, simply drop in to a session or two to see if it’s for them.

Expect lots of fun, colour and mess (and no cleaning up)!

Young artists must be accompanied by an adult, who can relax during sessions with coffee and cake from our café bar.

Activity schedule:

14 June – PAPER PLATES with Faith Foster

Do you love a roast dinner? Are picnics more your thing?

Let’s chat about our favourite foods together and make a plate collage. We’ll be using paper and drawings to make our food creations.

 

21 June – BANANARCHY BODS! with Lauren Saunders

Let’s go bananas! We’ll spend the morning exploring the gallery and using paper to make individual artworks in response to Pippa Hale’s colourful and playful new exhibition.

 

28 June – FRUITY BUNTING with Lauren Saunders

Back by popular request, we’re doing momigami again… But this time we’ll be making colourful, fruity bunting to brighten up our homes and welcome in the summer!

 

5 July – BERRY SILLY MONSTERS with Lauren Saunders

Come and help make a community of weird and wonderful fruit-monster puppets and costumes as we use a range of paper cutting, drawing and fastening techniques.

 

12 July – ARTY BODS FRUIT MARKET with Lauren Saunders

Roll up, roll up! Come buy yer snoozleberries and glimmerpeaches ‘ere! Five gloopafruits for only a pound! Let’s create a collaborative and bustling fruit market scene, featuring faraway fruit, signs, price tags and country origin flags through collage, drawing and installation.

 

19 July – CHILDREN’S CHOICE with Lauren Saunders

We’ll be using this last week in the block to revisit or share our own paper-based techniques with others, and explore some of the ideas suggested by Arty Bods participants in previous weeks.

Please purchase one ticket per child attending.

Date
Every Saturday 14 June – 19 July 2025

Location
Humber Street Gallery

10:30am – 12:30pm

Free, booking required via Eventbrite

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