We will carry on with our after school sessions even as the nights are drawing in. We have fab lights in the greenhouse, which makes it a...

We’re going to be doing a series of wire sculpture sessions in our home education art group, and we started off creating trees!

We had a fabulous start to this term’s art sessions at the allotment! We used elderberries as the basis for watercolour paint, which was...

This week’s after school session was so lovely and warm- we thought that autumn had come to stay, but apparently not! Delicious dinner of...

We have been collaborating with Air Arts at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) for a number of years, exhibiting work as...

The beginning of September and it’s been so hot! We cooked our first after school tea out in the shade, and moved the seating outside...

Our after school sessions are about to start, but on this last summer session, we tried our first sweet corn, as well as making wooden...

Our next art project is more 3D work. Over lockdown, our online art sessions concentrated on painting and drawing, so it's good to get...

After spending a few sessions using tesserae to make mosaics, we've gone a bit more industrial now, and are using pebbles and cement! The...

We've just done our fourth session at Annie's Place, the centre where Derby Umbrella run their sessions for children and adults wth...

Our in-person sessions at the allotment have started! We’re doing a series of workshops using two different ways of creating mosaics- the...

Our art sessions for home educating children have moved onlin, due to the current lockdown, and we’re try out all sorts of practical...

This year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch didn’t start off too well for us in the Midlands (for garden birds or spotters!), with lots of...

If you had a real, cut Christmas tree, or you’ve been pruning a fir tree (but NOT leylandii or yew!!), then this is a lovely project to...

Our final home education art sessions before Christmas were sculpture-based...but using fondant icing and marzipan. Not only good to eat,...

There’s been plenty of rain...so it was muddy and excitingly slippery in the woods! As well as a bit of teacake-toasting, we were making...

For the last two sessions before Christmas we will be all-out Christmas crafting... This week, it was making beautiful 3D paper stars-...

Our willow baskets are on hold - time for a quick diversion into Christmas wreaths! Some of our home education students have worked with...

The weather might be pretty grotty at the moment, but we find plenty to do on the allotment... We try to keep a balance of more...

Our one to one sessions have involved more activities in the greenhouse, as the weather has been a bit too wet over the last few weeks!...