Childrens Arts and Crafts in East London

We run a totally bespoke art & circus holiday camp in East London, London for children aged 5 - 11. We have two sites, one is Dalston and one in Tower Hamlets. A week of fun, play, creativity, games and lots of arts & crafts to boost your child's confidence, expand their creativity, cultivate their sense of calm and most importantly, have lots of fun.

Every week is centered around a different theme so your child will always be doing something fun, new and exciting each holiday. The children will learn a wide range of different art & craft techniques and make unique and ambitious artwork that they are always proud to take home. Combining our circus skills workshops, circus show, treasure hunts and party of the last day, it is the fun-filled week bursting with creativity that your child will want to come back to.

Art & Circus holiday camp for children at:
Columbia Primary School, 49-53 Columbia Rd, London E2 7RH
Holy Trinity Primary School, Beechwood Road, London E8 3DY

What to expect, our daily schedule:

8.30 - Early drop off option
9.00 - Children arrive, make a name badge and be put into their bubbles
9.15 - Morning stretching activity - consisting of body movement, mindfulness & breathing exercises and fun dancing games to help prepare everyone for the day
9.30 - First activity - A unique art activity around the current theme
10.30 - First break - Children have a snack and play outdoors
11.00 - Continue with the first art activity
12.00 - Lunch Break - Children eat their lunches* and play games
1.00 - Second art activity - Making the second piece of artwork or learning a circus skill
2.00 - Second break - Children are offered some organic fruit and juice and children can play outdoors
2.30 - Continue with second activity or practice new circus skill
3.15 - End of the day routine - Musical statues to end every day. On the last day of the week, we have a party which includes: obstacle course games, a treasure hunt and prizes for all children!
3.30 - End of day - parents/guardians come and collect their children from the venue
3.45 - Third break - children are able to play games outside on the terrace, draw, play board games and watch 15 minutes of a children’s film for the end of the day.
5.00 - Late pick-up option - parents/guardians come and collect their children from the venue

New exciting themes each week so your child will always be making something unique and fun.

We are committed to creating a space of support and safety - OFSTED registered, all staff have an enhanced DBS, two designed first aiders and several safeguarding leads so you can relax knowing that your child is in safe hands. We accept childcare vouchers from several suppliers to make our camps more accessible.

We looking forward to seeing you soon for some crafty fun!

Email: hello@theartimaginarium.co.uk

Hi there! My name is Emma Shannon and I have loved art from a very young age. I qualified as a primary teacher in 2006 and soon discovered that, due to timetable restraints, there was not enough time dedicated to the arts at school. I was often seeing children with low confidence being taken out of a rare art lesson to do more maths and English.

I believe that we should value art as a subject more as being creative makes us feel good, increases our self confidence and helps us think in different ways.

As an artist and a teacher, it was the logical choice to bring my two passions together to create Go Sketch Club!

I believe in teaching children that there is no such thing as 'good art' and 'bad art', only art we like and don't like. Everyone likes different art! We celebrate 'mistakes' as 'opportunities' within the creative process.

Go Sketch Club aims to develop young artists into self confident, imaginative and creative thinking adults of tomorrow. What can we offer?

Online zoom classes
Drawing tuition for age 9-16 on Tues and Thurs 5pm-6pm
Home Education Art Club: Weds 10am-11am

Arty Parties
If your child loves to draw, paint and create, we have a wide variety of fun art-based birthday parties to suit your artistic child! We even do adult parties if you feel like a unique and calm creative gathering. We can even tailor-make a fun and unique art birthday party for you and your child! All you need to do is have an idea for the theme, supply a work space and away we go! We can travel to a venue you have hired out or we can come to your home.

For example we can do a workshop on cartooning, comic strips, kawaii cartoons, manga/anime faces, zendoodle animals, watercolour painting (any topic), painting masterpiece with a canvas each, clay sculpture and we can even tailor make a party to fit your theme. We are based in Taunton so but love to travel so do get in touch.

Online Zoom Classes: www.gosketchclub.com/allliveclasses
Art Parties in South West: www.gosketch.co.uk/arty-birthday-parties/

Email: emma@gosketch.co.uk

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