For Arts and Crafts

Children love arts and crafts, and do avoid having the mess at home see our selection below.

Cheshire Workshops, Buwardsley 01829 770401

Discover candle making and watch working craftsmen. Lots of activities
for children at weekends and school holidays including candle dipping,
badge making, card making and pottery painting. Open 10-5pm

Stockport Hat Works 0845 833 0975

If you have ever wondered how hats were made, then this is the
place for you. View the history of hat making from its origins through
to mechanisation in the mills with working machines in action.

Caithness Crystal, Norfolk 01553 765111 www.caithness-crystal.co.uk

See how this world-famous glass is made. Children’s experience
available where they can make their own paperweight, hand or foot
cast (charge applies).

Whitchurch Heritage Centre & Craft Centre, Shropshire 01948 664577

Hands on displays, the giant puzzle tells the rhyme, play the clock
game, brass rubbing and surprises in the sand.

Salford – Irwell Sculpture Trail 0161 253 5869

The trail starts at Salford Quays and extends to the West Pennine
Moors. There are 50 environmental arts projects to admire along
this 30 mile footpath.

The Pen Room, Birmingham 0121 236 9834 www.penroom.co.uk

Steeped in Victorian history, you can doodle with quills and make
your own pen using the old factory presses at this pen museum.

House of Marbles, Devon 01626 835285 www.houseofmarbles.com

Visit this old pottery with three towering kilns and three museums.
Be amazed at the mechanical marble runs, see glass blowers in action
and play games in the garden.

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