Did you leave it too late to buy a Father’s Day Card? Or maybe you want to make your own. I always think handmade cards are the best. So here are some templates and tips on how to make your own diy father’s day cards with the kids this year. Download the template Once you […]
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
How to make a bird feeder Welcome to our first ever guest presenter online video tutorial. Emma is a long time student and she recently won a craft challenge competition that I set my Spring term of students. (Ill be posting a whole blog post on the winning entries soon) Emma created a bird feeder […]
One of our favourite projects from last summer was our mobile spray painting booth. I have a step by step youtube video tutorial below with all the details on how to make your own spray booth. We started the booth as a giant cardboard box the year before, we then upgraded it to a big […]
Make your own football birthday card This card is perfect for any sports mad birthday boy or girl. And it uses materials that you will have in your home, so perfect for creating artwork without having to leave the house. In the video tutorial below I talk about football (soccer) but you could just as […]
I believe that we all have creativity within us. It manifests in different ways and at different times in our lives. But what is important, is that we make time in our daily routines for this creativity. For play, and experimentation. We need to make time in order to grow our own creative muscles. . […]
Here at the Craft Corner we have been teaching sewing classes for chidlren for several years now. Upcoming Events: Join us on the 22nd February for a Sewing Workshop for Beginners. Whether you attend our shorter weekend workshops or our longer sewing terms each class is designed with beginners in mind. We have shared machines […]
Today, January the 17th, is international Kid Inventors’ Day. A day when we celebrate the young talented minds in our world. Here at The Craft Corner I like to think that every day is Kid Inventors Day! Inventing our own Laptops Each term the final class is our Craft Challenge. It is our invention class. […]
This summer we will be running a Teen summer camp for ages 12 to 16 years old. Join us for 4 days of creativity in the Stable Block at Castletown House this August. The art camp will run from Monday the 12th to Thursday 15th August. And we know teenagers like their lie ins so […]
Creative summer camps with the craft corner. Straffan is the home to our after school arts and craft classes so it is always great fun to hold our summer camps here too. Our Straffan summer camp will take place from the 19th to the 23rd August 2019. Our art camps are suitable for ages 5 […]
