Summer Holidays: Adventures in Material & Space Mash-Up

Summer Holidays: Adventures in Material & Space Mash-Up
Monday 18th – Wednesday 20th August 2025, 10 am – 4pm

Adventures in Material & Space is a programme of short-courses for Children taking place at Warwick Prep on a regular basis during the holidays. Every short-course is different with new activities, materials and process introduced each time. Open to all.

We will play, problem solve and get creative using found objects, coloured acetate and mirrors which will become an enlarged environment. We will use clay and other natural materials to create installations in the space.

Activities Include: Exploring natural materials; imaginative tool making; crushing materials to make coloured pastes; mark-making with our hands, at a large scale; weaving; making large scale structures out of bamboo, wood and sticks; clay-sculpting, traditional clay mixing with our feet, making our own mudbricks. Using coloured acetate and objects with an overhead projector; large scale drawing around projected images; using materials to make a sculpture based on what you see; making shadow sticks using wooden dowels and chosen materials; performing in the space created.

Three-day course 10 am – 4 pm = £135
Option for additional wraparound care at additional charge 9 – 10 am and 4 – 5 pm @ £7.50 per hour.
A number of free and half-price places are available to those on low income, thanks to support by Friends of the Arts Warwickshire. If the cost is stopping you signing your child up drop us an email summarising your personal circumstance and let’s see if we can help.

We are happy to accept children with additional needs. However it is essential that if your child has additional needs you get in touch with us to discuss the details of these in advance. This is to ensure a safe, productive and creative experience for all, given our staffing capacity. Failure to do this may mean we are unable to accept your child on the day.