At Arty Farty Kids we provide a safe and fun environment where children can expand their visual art horizons.

Shadow Puppet Theatres

The kids created their own puppet theatres using black cardboard and semi transparent plastic sheets from up-cycled office filing envelopes. They had their own narratives depending on the characters they chose, many being Pokemon inspired for some reason!

Bendy Stawsects

Nature is very often magical. The introduction for this workshop involved a discussion about the metamorphosis of many types of insect as they change from one creature (say… a caterpillar) into soupy gloop inside a cocoon and finally a beautiful

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Plaschedelic Flowers

What happens when you SLAM a whole pile of different colours together, flattenĀ them out and roll them up into all kinds of mad flower shapes? You have to study the flowers first so you know what they look like and

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Shadows in the Dark

Using 3 different grades of charcoal, (vine, pencil and compressed) the kids created these amazing night time scenes. My only regret is that I didn’t get any images of their hands, faces and clothing when they had finished. It was

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