By Ade Blackburn
Easter is the perfect time to start crafting again, these seasonal workshops are ideal to add some colour to your home with an Easter themed creation.
1. Easter Bonnet Workshops
Join the team at Crosby’s Lakeside Adventure Centre for a fun-filled Easter Bonnet Workshop of creativity and crafting.
Get ready to unleash your imagination and create a beautiful Easter bonnet or hairband that your child can wear during the School Easter Parade. The team will be on hand to provide guidance and inspiration, so you can let your creativity run wild.
Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre, 23 – 24 March, various times.
Alternatively, you and your little one can have fun making an Easter Bonnet at Bee Early Years.
Honeycomb House, Birkenhead, Wirral. Wednesday 5 April.
2. Easter Wreath Making Workshop
Celebrate the spring season with a handcrafted Easter wreath for your door.
During this Easter Wreath Making Workshop at Duke Street Market, you’ll work with a stunning range of bulbs and carefully chosen bedding flowers to bring your wreath to life, starting with making the base from scratch using fresh and ethically sourced materials.
Immerse yourself in a world of flowers and learn a range of methods for preparing and arranging your wreath with guidance from Nat, an experienced florist at Somerset Blooms.
Duke Street Food & Drink Market, 30 March, 12 – 2pm.
3. Supersized Easter Egg Decoration Workshop
Join World of Glass for this kids Easter Workshop aimed at 3 – 6 year year olds. Your child will be decorating a supersized image of an egg using water spray as the glue and colourful shaped acetate for the decoration.
It’s a great chance for children to learn more about colour shape and pattern and an opportunity to take a photograph of your budding artist with their first public artwork.
All tickets are for children only with 2 adult spaces to accompany each child.
World of Glass, St Helens, 12 April, 11 – 11.45am.
4. Felt Easter Decorations
Get ready for Easter and join in with this Easter Textiles Workshop to create your own cute felt decoration, perfect for bringing spring vibes to your home.
Waterstones, Birkenhead, 24 March, 11am – 1pm.
5. Easter Family Activities at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool
Fill your Easter holidays with free creative activities workshops for the whole family.
Enjoy free, hands-on art activities at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North this Easter. Get your whole family involved with activities designed for all ages and available every day throughout the school holidays. Their free Art Games booklets are also available to pick up and take home.
Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Mann Island, 29 March – 14 April. Daily at 10am – 4pm.
6. Easter Egg Painting
Artist Dot Rodgers will show you how to paint your own version of a Ukrainian Easter egg in this Make it! workshop. A pysanka egg is usually decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs and you can display your pysanka in a window at home to show you #StandWithUkraine.
All materials provided. Children must be supervised at all times. Recommended age 6+.
The Atkinson, Southport, 4 & 11 April, 11am – 3pm.
7. Easter Crafts
Join Lark Lane Wellbeing Hub for an afternoon of Easter crafts and fun workshops. Kids get to be creative making a range of Easter activities. Treats are also provided for the little ones as they play and craft.
Lark Lane Wellbeing Hub, 23 March, 1 – 3pm.