Event Categories: Arts & Craft

TV Puppet Fun Family Craft Activity

Have a go at making your own puppet inspired by famous children’s tv characters from the 1970s up to the present day.

Takes place: 11.30am-3pm

Maritime Explorers Family Craft Activity

Find out about how sailors have navigated and explored throughout history. Design your own map, learn about how mariners navigated using stars and
constellations, make a compass and get hands on with our museum handling collections.

Takes place: 1pm – 3pm

Mini Maritime Merchants Family Craft Activity

Follow our maritime trail around Streetlife Museum and explore the rich heritage of Hull. Collect treasures along the way and exchange them for riches at our trading post.

Takes place: 1pm – 3pm

Creatures of the Deep Family Craft Activity

Make your own hanging mobile of prehistoric sea creatures inspired by the Hull and East Riding Museum collections. From Ichthyosaurs to ammonites, what will you include?

Takes place: 1pm – 3pm

Cannons! Family Craft Activity

Make your own cannon inspired by Henry’s Gun on display in the Hull and East Riding Museum which was discovered in the South Blockhouse archaeological digs.

Takes place: 1pm-3pm

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.

An Autumn Art Workshop with award winning artist Gail Hurst

Immerse yourself into all the natural warm colours of Autumn using mixed-media collage, inks, charcoal and paint.

You will be greeted with a wonderful array of pumpkins, candles and autumn cuttings collected from the grounds of Burton Constable all created into a beautiful still life for you to work with for the day. Starting with loose sketches and finding your composition encouraged by demonstrations by Gail in finding ways of seeing and interpretation.

Event Details

Saturday 18th October 2025 10am to 4pm

A break for lunch at 12pm

The Carriage House

All materials will be provided

Tea and Coffee throughout the day

The Stables Kitchen will be open if you wish to purchase your lunch, alternatively you can bring a packed lunch with you

 

A Summer Art Workshop with Award Winning Artist Gail Hurst

Immerse yourself into watercolour and ink to feel the lightness of summer. The workshop begins with a brief tutorial on everything watercolour!

With the landscape, flora and fauna of the Burton Constable Hall at your fingertips for inspiration, a session of sketching will follow; weather permitting, this will take place in the grounds. Gail will be offering plenty of demonstrations to encourage you all the way to be as experimental as you can be. After a break for lunch, time will be spent transforming your compositions into colour! A focus on watercolours and inks with more demonstrations at hand for you to fully embrace this exciting medium in a relaxed way.

Event Details

Saturday 5th July 2025 10am to 4pm

A break for lunch at 12pm.

The Carriage House

All materials will be provided

Tea and Coffee throughout the day

The Stables Kitchen will be open if you wish to purchase your lunch, alternatively you can bring a packed lunch with you.

My Own Mini Micro-World – Family Craft Activity

Make your own mini habitat in this fun family craft activity inspired by the Microworld exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery.

What creatures will live there? What plants will grow? Let your imagination run wild.

Takes place: 1-3pm

Bees and Flowers – Family Craft Activity

Join us to make your own bumble bee and flower themed crafts in this fun family activity session inspired by the beautiful Museums Quarter Gardens.

Takes place: 1pm-3pm