Bow Families

Taking inspiration from the calming properties of floral aromas, learn how to make a scented pocket-sized pouch to soothe and help us go to sleep.

Exploring ideas around land and the healing power of nature, learn how to use natural and upcycled materials to weave your very own flower-shaped wall hanging. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!

Catch the crisp wintery sun with artist and educator Lucia Ferguson as we make our own ‘stained glass’ suncatchers inspired by the nature around us, using tissue paper and paper frames. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!

Join artist and artist educator Rebecca Griffiths in a seasonal family printmaking session to create seasonal cards and gift paper.

Mould your own tiny treasures, vessels, and objects out of salt dough and bring them to life with a splash of colour using food colouring and other fun materials. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!

Did you know the UK is home to some amazing cold-water coral reefs over 400m deep? Learn more about these habitats as we build up a collective coral reef sculpture out of clay. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials are provided!

Come along and join artist and arts educator Jasmin Bhanji for a huge group doodle, playfully encouraging and exploring what we can make when we freely doodle, draw, and create on a large-scale together.

Flags are symbols of places, identities, and cultures – they allow us to feel proud of our roots and bring us closer together. Get crafty as we as we cut, paste, and paint our own flags to embody our imagined future worlds, homes, or places of our dreams. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

Whether it’s moving to a different place, travelling in our local area, or making our way to school, the things we bring with us on our journeys represent who we are and what matters to us. Join us as we stitch our personal stories and memories onto small 2D fabric bags to bring along to your next adventure. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

What does it mean to be a Londoner? What does your dream city look like? Join us as we explore the city we live in and make your unique mark through drawing, collaging, and mapping out imagined landmarks to represent the things you care about. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

Come along to our Bow Families Special and make flower, butterfly, bee and other pollinator-shaped wildflower seed bombs.

Come along and make a three-dimensional collage using words, sound and movement to explore what home and place mean to us with artist Lou-Atessa Marcellin.

Illustrator and artist educator Julie Vermeille invites you to get crafty and come and make your very own Bow-scape! Taking the local area and key landmarks in Bow as your inspiration, we will be decorating a simple concertina book with all kinds of fun shapes, patterns and textures to create colourful cityscapes of the places and spaces we move through.