Winter School Holidays | weekdays 28 June – 9 July 2021

We’ve just wrapped up our Easter holiday program with 90 classes over 9 days! Watch this space for the Winter program which will be launched 24 May.

School Holiday Ceramics collection

If your child attended one any of our sessions in the ceramics studio during the holidays everything will be fired in our kilns.

Pottery Wheel You will be emailed to let you know it’s time to book in for a glazing session ($20 per person) to add your choice of coloured glaze. They will be then be fired again.

For ceramic sculptures we will let you know when they are finished and ready to collect after two firings.

Each holidays we offer:

• Fun and creative holiday activities for school kids age 5 years and over (NO preschoolers)
• One and two-day workshops for teens to develop skills and explore new mediums (10-4pm)
• 3 hour workshops available morning and afternoon (9.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4.30pm) for kids 5 and over
• Build your own program choosing one workshop, several across the holidays or stay for a full day
• Lunchtime supervision for kids staying the whole day at no extra charge
• Prices include all art materials and tuition
• Activities include painting, drawing, cartooning, ceramics, pottery wheel, printmaking and more!
• Our main studios are fully air conditioned, so it’s comfortable all year round!

All classes are held in our Leichhardt warehouse studio. Book early so you don’t miss out on your favourites, and be sure to read details below on how to use your Creative Kids Voucher with us and our Covid-safe measures. Please read about our Covid-19 safe measures here.

Using your Creative Kids Voucher for online school holiday activities

Use your 2021 Creative Kids voucher for any of our school holiday workshops and save $100!* 2021 Vouchers valid anytime in 2021. All you have to do is claim your Creative Kids Voucher from Service NSW, choose your workshops, call us on 95641519 or email us your Creative Kids voucher with your enrolment details and preferred classes, and leave the rest to us. Please note: our web checkout does not allow you to do an online enrolment using your voucher, so you will need to call us or email us first. We cannot retrospectively apply the Creative Kids Voucher if you have already enrolled and paid. (NO exceptions)

Before enrolling, please read how to use your Creative Kids voucher with Art Est here.

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