Something special on your Christmas list this year? Adding bright colours and drawings might help Father Christmas to make your wish come true!

This fun, festive, family activity is a lovely way to start the Christmas holidays. Words and pictures are always together in the learning material that we show our children, because they increase understanding and engagement. Why then do we separate learning to write and learning to draw?

During the course of the morning, you will be using a mixture of art and craft supplies including paints and collage to make bright and colourful Christmas lists ready for Father Christmas.

This session will gently incorporate practice of:

- Handwriting

- Spelling

- Creative mark making and decision making

- Drawing from imagination

Suitable for children aged 4 - 11 years old, accompanied by a guardian

Tutor: Emma Leyfield
Date & Time: Saturday 14th December, 10am - 12pm
Venue: Spindle Studio, New Brewery Arts
PRICE: £30

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio.

Refreshments are available at our on-site café Blend

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Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for children aged 4 - 11 years old

The cost is per child, they must be supervised by a guardian but this does not have to be 1-2-1

What you will need:

All materials are provided

MEET YOUR TUTOR

Emma is an emerging artist and freelance illustrator who specialises in watercolours and portraiture and is known for her sketchbooks, which she makes through bookbinding.

Greatly inspired by the works of Shirley Hughes and Quentin Blake, She is passionate about the importance of learning traditional methods of drawing, which are now being lost as modern art becomes more prevalent in illustration and digital mediums are become more widely used. This is visible in her work which is often described as reminding the viewer of the traditional illustrations they remember from their childhood.

Interspersed with teaching and her love of reading, Emma runs her own small business in Gloucestershire. She studied fine art for 4 years before moving on to pursue her ambition of becoming a children's book illustrator.