May Half-Term: Material Connections

May Half-Term: Material Connections
Monday 26th – Wednesday 28th May 2025, 10 am – 4 pm

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.

Reigniting a connection to materials and the physical world, often lacking in the post-digital age, we will explore the potential of natural materials from clay, to straw, willow to bamboo. Through materials we will connect to traditional techniques and practices, look outwards to the natural designs of indigenous cultures and explore how we can make sculpture sensitively and sustainably, in tune with nature and treading lightly on this earth.

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.

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.