Invent, Draw, Make & Create! — Creative Kid's Art Lab

Experiments & activities

* Experiment with colour and creative ways of using paint
* Create with clay & natural materials
* Construct with recyclables
* Engineer with gravity to test adhesive methods and materials
* Sewing…

See photo examples

Benefits to you & your child

* Qualified primary teacher and artist
* 15 years’ experience teaching art to primary-aged children
* Progressive teaching methods
* Lessons based on traditional and modern arts/crafts, developing skills & creativity
* Structured, but in a home-studio setting
* Daily or weekly themes
* A child-friendly, relaxed environment for after-school
* Lots of variety / choice
* Excellent resources

Booking options

* Book your days online
* Single day or multiple day bookings accepted
* Change days easily
* Late-stay/pickup available
* Visa/Mastercard – no fees

See the booking page

Creative kid’s

Art

Lab

Art classes and after-school care

for children who like to

Age 5-13

Open 3-6.30pm

Tue-Thu

November dates
are now available

Click Booking at top right

Do you like to make things?

Use fabric, wire, clay, plaster of paris, paints, dyes and lots more and make something to take home every week. Loads of mess, lots of making and unlimited friends and fun.

Thank you so much.
Tui absolutely loved your workshops. He's super keen to come along to regular sessions.

Thanks again for creating and facilitating such an awesome creative space. Another fabulous workshop.

It was an awesome session, Helen.
11 out of 10!

As a parent my satisfaction is high. I would rate the standard of teaching as 10 out of 10.

She's always thrilled and waits for Tuesdays.
She wishes every day was Tuesday!

They can get down and dirty, and not in my house!

My daughter enjoys it. The classes are diverse. There's different themes every time she goes there.

She spent the school holidays counting the sleeps until the next art class.
I thought it was great that the children had a finished piece at the end of each session.

Imagine a place you can go to after school
where you can chill out in a bean bag, under a tree,
while making clay animals!

Or you can come into the art studio and
sew something on the sewing machine, paint and draw with friends,
or make something at the woodworking table on the veranda!

Helen is an artist and teacher (and mad scientist!) and will
be there to support you to make lots of wonderful arts and crafts
including your own inventions!

We can make anything we want and bring anything to add to our creations. It's fun and it's your choice.

It made me feel happy doing the art classes. I liked making the houses and sticking the possum together.

Helen is nice because she's patient and she helps you if you need help. The resources are awesome!

It's creative and fun to explore. Helen's got loads of really cool things that you could play with.

We do fun stuff!

It's great to get creative, and this place is good to do that stuff!

What do we do?

These classes provide an opportunity to play and experiment in a structured but caring, home-studio environment.

Activities are designed and supervised by an experienced primary school teacher and artist.

To meet the needs of active and curious children after school we explore a variety of crafts such as sewing, crochet, pottery, felting, weaving, jewellery and woodwork; and the art forms: painting, drawing, sculpting and printmaking.

The activities utilise a child’s growing mathematical skills such as estimating, measuring, scaling up & down, changing 2D to 3D, exploring symmetry, and pattern-making. Natural sciences, such as chemistry, biology, geology and physics are included, as well as history and culture (e.g. who discovered pottery?)

Where to next?…

Photos

A selection from October 2019

Examples

Bio

Qualifications & background

Teacher

Booking

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