Artburst has a variety of exciting activities for children’s parties:

Ready Steady Off We Go Party for 0 – 5 year olds

45 minutes Makaton approved workshop run by one facilitator featuring unique action songs as seen at the V&A Museum of Childhood and at the London Transport Museum. The workshop includes interactive storytelling, parachute play, singing and dancing.

Make & Paint Party for 1 – 5 year olds

Make & Paint  workshop is 45 minutes of interactive storytelling, making, painting and signing. Each child will make something to take home based around the chosen theme.

Artburst Minis Combo Party for 1 – 5 year olds 

60 minutes workshop combining interactive storytelling, singing, dancing and take home craft. Each child will make something to take home based around the chosen theme.

Artburst Play in a Day Party for 5 – 8 year olds

90 minutes workshop combining interactive storytelling, drama games and craft. There is an option for a short performance at the end of the workshop and each child will make something to take home.

Artburst Drop in Craft Party for 5 – 8 year olds

60 minutes of interactive storytelling and a variety of drop in and craft activities.  Each child will have the option to make something to take home.

Prices vary depending on location, theme and capacity. Contact us for more information.

After school Art Club
Artburst Art Clubs are weekly one-hour sessions. Sessions are artist-led in drawing, painting, model making, textiles, sculpture, photography, print making. Children work in a relaxed setting and with various materials to explore individual and group creative projects. Projects can be themed or open-ended, and always support children in developing their creative ideas.

After school Drama Club
Artburst Drama Clubs are weekly one-hour sessions. Sessions are high energy, fun and inspiring. Sessions are led by professional actors who teach drama and performance, students are encouraged to free their imagination and express their creativity. The sessions include drama games, improvisation, movement and loads of fun!

After school Art & Drama Club
Usually running over a 10 week period these are led by 1 art facilitator and 1 drama facilitator. Projects end in a performance and children make, create, devise and design every aspect of their final show.

Aim:
After school clubs develop children’s confidence and team-working skills. Workshop activities are very much pupil-led and children are encouraged to express their ideas and opinions, creating a real sense of ownership over the whole process.

Age Range:
Key stage 1 and 2 (5 – 11 yr olds)

Duration:
One day a week for a term

Capacity:
10 – 20 children depending on after school option.

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Artburst Minis – Under 5s

Workshop Type:
Artburst Minis early years workshops are a range of engaging, educational workshops for under 5s and their parents and carers. Sessions include singing, dancing, interactive storytelling, parachute games and art, based on popular children’s books. Shorter workshops are available in the form of Make & Paint; Storytelling and art or Ready Steady off WE GO!! Storytelling, parachute play, singing, dancing and signing. Catch us at one of our regular workshops by visiting our what’s on page.

Objective:
As well as being great fun, Artburst Minis help to develop mobility and co-ordination, and speech and language skills by introducing new vocabulary through songs and actions. Designed especially for early years education.

Age Range:
Under 5′s
Foundation, Nursery and Reception classes

Duration:
Artburst Minis  – 90 minute session
Make & Paint – 45 minute session
Ready Steady off WE GO!! – 45 minute session

Capacity:
15 children with parents/carers
1/2 class (15 children)

Themes:
Animals of Africa, Beside the Seaside, Down on the Farm, Dragons and Daydreams, Monsters and Giants, Food Glorious Food, Home Sweet Home, Hop, Skip and Jump, Into the Night, Magic Making, Moving Toys, Purely Paper, Snakes and Ladders, Traditional Tales, Circus Fun, Playing with Puppets, Transport.

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

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Workshop Type:
Artburst Minis workshops are a range of engaging, educational workshops for under 5s and their parents and carers. Sessions include singing, dancing, interactive storytelling, parachute games and art, based on popular children’s books.

Objective:
As well as being great fun, Artburst Minis help to develop mobility and co-ordination, and speech and language skills by introducing new vocabulary through songs and actions.

Age Range:
Under 5’s
Foundation, Nursery and Reception classes
Children’s Centres

Duration:
90 minute session

Capacity:
10 children with parents/carers
1 class (30 children)

Themes:
Animals of Africa, Beside the Seaside, Down on the Farm, Dragons and Daydreams, Monsters and Giants, Food Glorious Food, Home Sweet Home, Hop, Skip and Jump, Into the Night, Magic Making, Moving Toys, Purely Paper, Snakes and Ladders, Traditional Tales, Circus Fun, Playing with Puppets, Transport.

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Artburst delivers workshops in schools. Choose an alternative approach to the curriculum in the form of a Play in a Day workshop, Sculpt your School project (ideal for Arts Weeks, see Recyclatron pictured above) or from one of our Artburst Minis workshops, ideal for Early Years. Artburst has a wide range of pre-planned workshops based around popular children’s books, or we can design a workshop especially for your school.

“The Artburst workshops were fun, entertaining and geared towards the children’s level.  The artist captured the children’s interest right from the start and they especially loved listening to the animated stories! The children were engaged in the activities at all times and enjoyed every minute. The children’s performances at the end were brilliant and were a fantastic way to show off their pieces of art.”
Tessa Byrne, Teacher
Smithy Street Primary School, Tower Hamlets, London

“Artburst co-ordinated the week magnificently and created a wonderful inclusive working atmosphere between all concerned…They fully understood the needs of our pupils and worked to ensure that all of the activities were appropriate to the needs and aptitudes of our students while maintaining challenging work for our mainstream partners…Most importantly for those of us working in the special needs areas, Artburst proved that they could make the process of art as important and as valuable as the product.”
Derek Lyseight-Jones, Head of Education
Penhurst School, Oxfordshire

If you would like to find out more about our workshops and costings, please contact us.

Artburst has a range of workshops suitable for Special Educational Needs groups and schools. In recent years we have worked with special schools LVS Hassocks and New Options, Highford School, and we currently have a residency in Heathermount The Learning Centre; an autistic school in Ascot, Berkshire which caters for children and young people, aged 5-19, who have a range of autistic spectrum disorders.

Artburst also delivered the V&A Making SENse programme, supporting children, families and carers to access creative activities and museum exhibitions at the V&A Museum of Childhood.

Workshop Type:
Show & Tell workshops are designed specifically for Key Stage 1 children and are based on well-loved children’s storybooks. Each workshop involves games, doodle time and a carousel of arts activities, including backdrop painting, costume making and colouring. These action-packed sessions end with a sharing for friends and family or to the school.

Objective:
Show & Tell workshops develop confidence, promote an engagement with children’s literature and encourage good team working skills.

Age Range:
Key Stage 1 (5 – 7 yr olds)

Duration:
Half day workshop (up to 3 hrs)

Capacity:
30 children

Themes:
Where the Wild Things Are, The Way Back Home, We’re going on a Lion Hunt, The Tiger who came to Tea, Tiddler, Room on the Broom, The Night Pirates, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, How Do Dinosaurs Go To School, How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon, How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food and many more.

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Workshop Type:
Play in a Day is a whirlwind performance-based workshop for Key Stage 1 & 2 children, based on well-loved children’s storybooks. Children explore the story through drama, music and movement. Each child will design and create an item of costume and work in small groups to paint a backdrop for their tale. In the second half of the workshop the whole group comes together to retell the classic text in a performance packed with actions, movements and sounds! At the end of the workshop there is always a short performance for family, friends or the school.

Objective:
Workshops are ideal for children that speak English as a second language, and are aimed at building confidence and engagement with children’s literature.

Age Range:
Key Stage 1 & 2 (5 – 11 yr olds)

Duration:
1 day (up to 6 hours)

Capacity:
1 class (30 children)

Themes:
Katie’s Picture Show, Artburst Wild Rumpus, The Night Pirates, Not Now Bernard, Room on the Broom, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Paper Bag Princess, The Tiger who came to Tea, Pinocchio and many more!

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Workshop Type:
Shadow Stories explores the weird and wonderful world of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. Participants will create their own modern take on these classic stories and create a shadow puppet play complete with sounds effects to perform at the end of the workshop. We will apply simple script writing and shadow puppet making techniques and learn everything involved in putting on a show. In some instances plays can be filmed and edited so participants can take home a DVD of their play.

Objective:
To explore science, art and literature in a creative way. To work together as a team to produce a performance. To build on friendships in diverse communities and encourage confidence and empowerment through the arts.

Age Range:
Key Stage 2 (7 – 11 yr olds)

Duration:
1 day (up to 6 hours) or 2 days

Capacity:
15 children

Themes:
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Testimonial:
“The workshop was suitable for the age group 10 – 11. It covered science (light and shadow, PUSCE (working in groups), Art and Literacy.” Year 6 teacher, Gainsborough Primary School, Hackney

Workshop Type:
Make a Play is a week-long performance-based workshop for 8-12 year olds. Over the course of a week students will devise their own script based on a classic children’s story, design and build sets, and invent costumes. On the final afternoon of the project children will perform their play to family, friends and teachers, showcasing their impressive creations!

Objective:
Make a Play workshops develop children’s confidence and team-working skills. Workshop activities are very much pupil-led and children are encouraged to express their ideas and opinions, creating a real sense of ownership over the whole process.

Age Range:
8 – 12 yr olds

Duration:
1 week (5 days)

Themes:
The Wizard of Oz, The House the Sailed Away, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG.

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Workshop Type:
Artburst offers a wide range of sculptural projects for Key Stage 1 & 2. Why not turn your rubbish into creatures and make a “Recyclatron’ or “J Junkasaurus’. These workshops are ideal for school Arts weeks, and can involve just one class, or an entire primary school! Combining games, songs, dance and arts activities, these projects always result in a large-scale art work that can be kept by your school.

Objective:
To work together as a team or school to produce a sculpture to show case in the school. This is a great way of exploring recycling with children and being resourceful with unused items.

Age Range:
Key Stage 1 & 2 (5 – 11 yr olds)

Duration:
1 day (up to 6 hours)

Capacity:
1 class or a selection of classes over the day

Themes:
Recyclatron, Totem Pole, J Junkasaurus, Angel of the East, Tower of We, Mushroom from Alice in Wonderland.

Cost:
Please contact us to find out more about fees and booking.

Testimonial:
“Artburst organised a Native American workshop for our Year 2 children. We contacted them with the theme, that was based on our Arts Week and they did the rest! Not only did they organise fantastic activities, which included drama, music and art, they also brought all of the resources – including paint brushes and palettes! The children had a great time and have produced a huge (12ft) totem pole, which parents and visitors to the school admire. Artburst are an enthusiastic team and we were very impressed with what we saw – we will definitely be using them again. Thanks Artburst for a great experience and we look forward to seeing you in the future.”
Heidi Batram, Y2 Teacher & Art Coordinator, Bure Park Primary School Bicester, Oxfordshire