Make some lovely mini or midi Christmas Stockings out of fabric or felt and decorate them with loads of fab glitz and glam or, why not go funky like these fruit ones, for your Christmas tree this year and many years to come!
Event Categories: Arts & Craft
Jewellery Gifts
Weave your own jewellery, ear-rings, bracelet, necklace, whatever you fancy on the day using our wide range of beads & felt making materials ready to gift at Christmas!
Great Adventures in Storyland
Step into an amazing place where anything can happen.
A place with heroes and villains, action and adventure where the only limits are your imagination. Step into Storyland.
Join the team on a quest to help save Storyland.
Due to the success of 2018, we have added a second adventure on every show date.
Running Time: 45 mins approx
Age Guidance: 3-6 years
Free arts and crafts before each show starting at 10am and 11.30am
Arts & Crafts 10 – 11am
Show 11 – 11.45am
Great Adventures in Storyland
Following on from the success of last year’s Great Adventures in Storyland, the Story Menders are back; stories are missing beginnings, ends, pages, maps and clues and we need your help to save the stories. We can’t wait to use our imaginations, make new friends and go on exciting adventures with you!
Great Adventures in Storyland is the perfect Saturday activity for children aged 3 to 6 and their families.
Free arts and crafts before each show, from 10am.
Each show lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Traenerhus: Christmas Shopper Night
Join us for a Christmas Shopping Experience, Traenerhus style!
Meet the makers, craft demos, shop for Christmas with friends whilst having a mince pie with a glass of mulled wine in our lovely High Street shop and gallery on Wednesday 21st November from 5:30-9pm at 167 High Street, Hull
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Womens Social Art / Craft Club
We invite women to join us every Wednesday from 12-2 PM. Bring a project and a lunch- come meet like minded makers! Each project is self-led in this space intended to provide communication and support from other women. Questions? email info@artlinkhull.co.uk.
History Makers-Gunpowder, sparklers and plots
Calling Lego addicts and artists of all abilities…
Since October 2014 we have been running free family craft and Lego events on at least a monthly basis with extra sessions during the summer holidays.
With a range of craft activities – come prepared to colour, construct, glue, bejewel and design, as together we make history! We have lots of Lego (although donations are always welcome) providing many opportunities to build something awesome.
The sessions are held on Saturdays 9:30-12:30 and everyone is welcome to join the fun. All ages are welcome, from 2 to 102! We just ask that under-16s bring a responsible adult along.
There’s no need to book, just drop in and see us.
VENOMS vs Poisons
Was Snow White’s apple venomous or poisonous? Did Dory get bitten or stung? Delve into the lives of toxic creatures at The Deep this October half term and find out which animals use venom and which use poison.
Join us for the fun-packed interactive presentation at 11am, 1pm and 3pm and discover how our animals use their amazing abilities to survive.
Take part in the venom vs poison trail throughout your visit to be in with a chance of winning a prize!
Don’t forget to head on down to the Learning Centre to make your own sticky slime to take home too for just £1.
Normal entry rates and opening times apply.
Skip the queues and save by booking tickets in advance.
Bizarre Bikes
Be inspired by historic bicycles to design your own weird and wonderful cycle!
Free, drop in, 1pm-3pm.
Festival of Archaeology – Hull Museums
Dig, delve and discover how archaeologists unearth the past at Hull and East Riding Museum. Get stuck in to craft activities and object handling sessions with fun for all the family.
Explore our amazing collections, sharing the story of Hull and the East Riding from the dinosaurs until the English Civil War. Wander through an Iron Age village, peruse Roman shops and nosey round a Roman villa. Discover Medieval Hull and objects unearthed by archaeologists metres from where you’re standing.
Come and join the adventure of archaeology at this fabulous free event!
Mixed Media Studio Day with Ingrid Holborn
During this full day workshop Ingrid will demonstrate a full range of painting and mixed media techniques. This includes stippling, stumbling, rolling, colourwashing, collaging, masking and more. Once you have experimented with these by creating small pieces you will then move on to a larger composition working with what you have learnt during the morning session.
With Ingrid’s expert guidance you are then free to create to start work on your own canvas piece. Ingrid’s extensive range of paints, stencils, brushes, sponges, mark makers, papers and wide range of mixed media are provided for you to use in your artwork. You may wish to bring some ideas along or some materials, papers or magazines you have been meaning to get round to ‘doing something with’ working with for ages. Or just come along and ‘freestyle’ and work with your imagination and whatever takes your fancy when you get here. It’s up to you.
Above all, this is a welcoming and relaxed creative day at our studio here at Traenerhus.
‘Picture This’ Textiles Mixed Media Day
Spend a day in our studio with Textiles Artist Jayne Jessop and create a ‘Textile Picture’. You will explore a range of different media and techniques including Printing, Colourwashing, Felting, Needle Felting, Machine Embroidery, Fusing Angelina & Silk Fibres, Collaging & Machine Embroidery. Working with these during the afternoon you will then create your own finished composition piece to take home. Come along and be creative at Traenerhus in Hull’s Old Town on this fun and creative studio day.
All materials and light refreshments included.
Mosaic Terracotta Pots
Learn to Mosaic onto a 3D object with local artist Jayne Jessop. We provide the terracotta pot and all the tools, tiles and broken crockery; you provide the inspiration and have fun on this ‘smashing’ day mosaicing to create your very own pot creation. Jayne will teach you everything you need to know to learn to mosaic with broken tiles and ceramics so you can do this time and time again with stuff found in Charity shops and Grandma’s cupboard ? Includes all materials and light refreshments
Hand-Made Leather Books
Create some perfectly formed pamphlets, then stitch them together into a beautiful, hand sewn leather bound book.
All papers, leather, silks and strings are provided but if you have any old leather or special paper you wish to use please bring it along.
Light refreshments are also included.
Textile Basketry – Coiled Baskets
This ancient basket making method involves wrapping threads around a central material then coiling it around on itself.
The size, colour and shape of the basket you make will depend on the materials used, the skills and technique of the maker.
The course fee is £40 and includes all materials and refreshments.
4 Week Book Binding Workshop
Get together every Tuesday this September and learn the art of bookbinding, in this 4 week workshop.
WEEK 1
Experiment with and create your own handmade paper which can be utilised in the books you will later create.
WEEK 2
In this session, you will be looking at 4-hole Japanese stab binding. Simple and practical, this is the basic traditional method of Japanese bookbinding (or stab binding).
WEEK 3
You will learn how to create a leatherette journal using the long stitch binding method, with a chain stitch variation.
WEEK 4
In the final session, you will learn how to create a cloth hardcover coptic stitch book. This workshop will teach you how to wrap hardcovers, as well as learn the coptic stitch binding method.
This course is perfect for beginners or those who want to brush up on their basic bookbinding skills, and will cost £35 per session or £120 for the full 4 weeks.