Children's Birthday Parties at The Laboratory

We design and deliver art parties for all ages. You can choose your own theme - then we design the art activity. The most popular at present is Mine Craft, Chocolate making and Jewellery themed parties!

 

Natasha and her friends proudly showing off some of the beautiful Jewellery made during her craft and art party

Pre designed theme ideas so far are:

Moshi monster party- ,Pirates - Furry animals - Football - Beano - Under the Sea - Ballet - Cars - Horses - Ghosties - Jungle Animals - Fairies - Rainbows - Egyptians - Power Rangers - Puppies - High School Musical - Bugs - Butterflies - Space - Unicorns - Dr Who - Flowers - African animals - Mermaids - Surfers/Beach - Fashion design canvas - Cars - Unicorns - Olympics - Winter wonderland - Moshi monsters - Horses - Prince and princesses - polar bears -

Activity Ideas : paint a picture, 3D wooden models, fridge magnets, mask making, clay modelling, paint a t shirt, 3D painting, decorative mirrors with mosaics, collage, mosaic art, door signs, 3D plant pot design, fossil plaques, glass painting & much more!

Materials 

Examples of some of the art materials available for the children to explore & experiment with include clay, paint, pastels, ink, plaster of Paris, glitter, coloured paper, tin foil, fabric, ribbon, mod rock, wire, felt, lace, wool, beads, sequins & jewels, flowers & leaves, stones, shells, pebbles, twigs & tree bark, feathers, rubber stamps, clay shape cutters, sponges, mirrors, tissue paper, stickers, cork tiles, face paints, …………….. & lots more!!

Price range from:

 £10 per child*  - for a 2 hr booking including two art activities and pass the 'arty parcel' and games - break half way for snacks which you provide.

*minimum booking of 8 children on any bookings - deposit payable upon booking

Here are some more pictures from Natasha's Jewellery and Chocolate Crunch Birthday party

Selecting bead for a beautoful Necklace

Threading the beads onto precut wire

Helping friends to choose the best beads

Once necklaces were made, we moved onto make a bracelet 

More threading of beads was required

Beautiful bronze and gold bead necklace being worked on

Creating a pattern using beads

Adding the final beads on

Showing our lovely messy chocolate hands whilst making chocolate crunch

Hmm I wonder if any of the chocolate crunch made it home!!!

Placing the chocolate crunch into mini cupcake cases

The finished chocolate crunch

Each party has a choice of games from pin the moustache on the minion, pass the parcel, guess how many sweets are in the jar etc

Our Party Leaders are fully trained, CRB checked, First Aiders and insured. We use products are that are safe, suitable and non toxic. We strive to use products from sustainable or recycled sources. We give you a courtesy call a couple of days before the big event and you can arrive 45 minute before the party starts to meet and greet the party person and to prepare all the fun activities!

Email us for a Booking form: the_laboratory@hotmail.co.uk  

Summer Art Blast

This Summer The Laboratory will be bursting with creative workshops, classes and projects for all ages. Each day of the week we have different art and crafts projects for you to come and try your hand at. Our workshops run between 10:00am - 4:00pm (unless otherwise specified).  Our workshops start from as little as £2:00 per item to £5:00 per person.

As well as our fun filled workshops, this Summer we will be hosting an open studio every Wednesday where you can view a selection of artwork created by The Laboratory's learners, visiting artists and The Laboratory artist Lisa Smith.

We are also delighted to announce that this Summer we will be launching two new classes:

Parents and toddler class Thursday 10:30am - 11:30am and 

Over 60's art class Thursday 1:00pm -3:00pm

To book onto any of our workshops or classes email the_laboratory@hotmail.co.uk

Summer Programme at The Laboratory, find us opposite The Green Centre at Wat Tyler Country Park

Workshops at The Laboratory are suitable for all ages and abilities

Our art workshops aim to encourage you to explore, experiment and create arts and crafts from a wide range of materials

Children's Art Parties at The Laboratory

Handmade Superhero Caps - parties can be tailor made to a specific theme or art material

A superhero is not complete without their mask and logo badge!!!

Art Classes at The Laboratory continue through the Summer

Art classes at The Laboratory provide an opportunity for children and adults to make new friends,
 learn and enhance art skills and experiment with art

Our art classes are relaxed and friendly (we even supply refreshments) Classes are suitable for all abilities so if you want to improve your art skills or try something new, why not pop along

To find out more email Lisa on the_laboratory@hotmail.co.uk

Spit Spot

Can you believe it is only 20 days until the official opening of The Laboratory art studio at Wat Tyler Country Park. The guys at Wat Tyler have worked really hard making sure the walls and floor are all painted and spit spot ready for us to move in just after Christmas. The Studio has been part of an £80,000 renovation project at the park and feature lots of energy efficient features including an under floor heating system - which we think will come in use in the New Year.

So here are the first pictures for you of the studio and where it is located at the park.

My lovely new studio - The Laboratory

 A blank canvas ready for new artists, new ideas to explore, experiment and create

The Green Centre - situated opposite The Laboratory

As you can see we have ample parking and space for large outdoor programmes!

The Labroatory will run art classes for beginners, more accomplished artists and children. You will also be able to book children's art parties for birthdays, weddings or special events.

Classes will start the week commencing January 6th 2013. To find out more information keep an eye of The Laboratory Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/1thelaboratory and twitter account @1the_laboratory or alternatively email the_laboratory@hotmail.co.uk