Creative Days

Creative Days Art and craft workshops for children in Bedford and surrounding areas. Creative Days workshops are designed for children of all abilities.

Our projects cover a broad range of art and craft ideas. We work closely with the changing seasons, the world around us, different artists and cultures, using a wide range of materials and techniques. Creative Days is run by a fully qualified Art teacher, DBS checked. Our current workshop details:

Creative Days Art and Craft Workshops for Children (all running at The Place Theatre, Bedford)

Crea

tive Fridays
4-5pm and 5.30-6.30pm for children of reception age to year 6

Creative Saturdays
9-10.30am for children of reception age to roughly year 4/5

11-12.30pm for children in years 4-6

We also run a workshop for children of secondary school age which runs from 11-12.30pm on Saturday mornings too. Creative Days is growing in popularity and in recent months we have experienced a huge surge in demand. It's wonderful to know just how much our community values the importance of creativity for our children, and as a small business we are doing what we can to accommodate this. All our weekly workshops are booked termly in advance. Unfortunately we are currently full unless your child is of secondary school age (11-16.) If you would like your child to be added to our waiting list please email me the following information and we will let you know asap if a space becomes available for them:

First name:
Date of Birth:
Preferred workshop:

We work with schools running one off workshops and offer private tuition too. Our pre-recorded workshops are also still available to purchase via our website. Please do not hesiate to drop us a line for further information.

Circular weavingMastered, revised and enjoyed by all our groups 💙Weaving, known historically in all great civilisations,...
02/06/2026

Circular weaving

Mastered, revised and enjoyed by all our groups 💙

Weaving, known historically in all great civilisations, is a favourite activity of ours, offering tremendous joy and mindfulness once mastered.  It was wonderful watching the children develop this skill (some for the very first time) and teaching our Teen group how to construct a circular loom from scratch.

Here you see examples from our younger groups. We think they already look great but we know that some of our little artists have been adding more to them at home because they got so into it and because weaving is such a wonderful pass time 😊

Ps We're back this weekend and look forward to welcoming yet more new artists along 💙

Interested in a place for your child? You can message us here or email [email protected] for all the dets!

Snails for AllSnails have literally taken over the Edward Bawden room thanks to marvelous museum curator Victoria Partr...
24/05/2026

Snails for All

Snails have literally taken over the Edward Bawden room thanks to marvelous museum curator Victoria Partridge and a group of young artists from Putnoe primary. Their fantastic artwork is hidden in huge drawers (just follow the snail trail...) surrounded by pages from Bawdens book 'Snails for All'. He wrote and illustrated it for his children but the book has just been published and you can now buy a copy of your own from the museum shop.

I absolutely loved working on this project with these children, inspired by such a weird and wonderful book, and it was an absolute pleasure attending the private view yesterday afternoon. Their artwork is not to be missed and the book must be read by all!

Visit without fail 🐌

Alice is very much part of our Teen group now. I'm helping her punch an eye hole in her dove, which is tricky even when ...
03/05/2026

Alice is very much part of our Teen group now. I'm helping her punch an eye hole in her dove, which is tricky even when you don't have low muscle tone.

She's just one of many children we teach who have additional needs. I don't want to make a big deal about this becuase we don't think it is a big deal. But others may.

Our workshops are for all children which means we open our arms to every child who wishes to join us with as much support as we are able to give. I work closely with parents and our team who share unspoken awareness and acceptance 💕

Our workshops are places where all children are made to feel safe, happy and able. We laugh, we never judge and we help each other, whilst we make great art.

Fridays and Saturdays

📩 [email protected]

Circular weaving for all 🙌Mastering the art of circular weaving is a wonderful thing and thats exactly what our youngest...
30/04/2026

Circular weaving for all 🙌

Mastering the art of circular weaving is a wonderful thing and thats exactly what our youngest artists were practising last week. And because we love weaving so much we decided to let all our groups have a go. Our eldest artists had the challenge of stringing up their frame themselves first before they began and we even brought in some hoola hoops so we could get started on some giant weaving too!

They already look so pretty as they slowly grow, but we'll keep adding to them gradually over the next few weeks before they go home 💕

Fridays
4-5pm & 5.30-6.30pm
4-11 year olds

Saturdays
9-10.30am
4-9 year olds
11-12.30pm
9-16 year olds

All

📩 [email protected]

Peace & LoveI felt the urge to create this beautiful and much needed still life as we launched into our summer term, and...
28/04/2026

Peace & Love

I felt the urge to create this beautiful and much needed still life as we launched into our summer term, and with a brand new idea up my sleeve...

Our very youngest artists (4-7 year olds) drew first and for about 20 minutes the room was completely silent they were so full of concentration. I'd positioned a second piece of paper then a layer of carbon paper beneath the paper they were drawing on. Next up our Teen group who set to work studying the same still life. I'd removed our younger artists work from the boards but kept the carbon paper in place laying fresh paper on top for them. Once they'd finished... the grand reveal! The carbon paper did its magic and the two works became one on the base layer. I love these completely unpredictable results and I'm now wondering what next...!

Please look out for more examples in our Stories as I couldn't fit them all here, sorry!

I did it too back in 1999!It was quite a year, I was in the middle of my teaching practise and I got my first job as an ...
26/04/2026

I did it too back in 1999!

It was quite a year, I was in the middle of my teaching practise and I got my first job as an art teacher.

The London Marathon is definitely one of the best things I've ever done. I absolutely loved living in London so as a runner I was over the moon to get a place. I ran with a pretty basic digital watch and some lucozade tablets. That was about it. I ran it in 4.29.42. I don't know if they still do this but back then they published everyones time in the The Times (which I still have a copy of)

My lasting memories of the race were seeing a man running smoking a fag over Tower Bridge and Britney Spears Baby One More Time blaring out as I ran over the cobbles, it really kept me going!

The very best of luck to all the runners taking part today (I know a few!) It's an incredibly emotional race and just watching it on tele each year always makes me well up 🤍

Dream Team 💙Yesterday I left this lovely bunch in charge enabling me to visit Brighton Uni with my eldest daughter and c...
26/04/2026

Dream Team 💙

Yesterday I left this lovely bunch in charge enabling me to visit Brighton Uni with my eldest daughter and check out their Fine Art department. It's the first Creative Saturday I've ever missed so it did feel a little bit strange but I was confident that my amazing team could run the show and they certainly did. I'm so grateful and blessed to have found these super stars! Thank you so much 🙏

Happy Earth Day 💚A happy coincidence that I chose trees as our subject today. I've been back at Basement Bunyan with a...
22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day 💚

A happy coincidence that I chose trees as our subject today. I've been back at Basement Bunyan with and her fab groups of adult artists who meet every Wednesday to create together. They're wonderful people and I always enjoy the contrast of delivering what we do to adults.

Today we worked with ink. As I often do I encouraged everyone to work as loosely as possible, creating depth through layering and the careful mixing of different shades. Being playful, just letting things happen and above all trying hard to block out any negative thoughts as they worked!

I didn't get chance to take many photos (almost 40 outcomes!) but here's a taste of just some of the stunning results...🌿

Well done everybody and thank you for inviting me along 🙏

We decided to decorate our willow frames before we start weaving, using simple binding techniques. Great for dexterity a...
21/04/2026

We decided to decorate our willow frames before we start weaving, using simple binding techniques. Great for dexterity and rather mindful too! Our children loved working with wool and they already look wonderful just as they are. Some wore them as crowns and one started turning theirs into a dream catcher. I love these creative tangents 💕

Address

The Place Theatre, Bradgate Road
Bedford
MK403DE

Opening Hours

Friday 4pm - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 12:30pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Creative Days posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category