Hi, I’m Claire Mackaness, owner of Craft Classes @ Beautiful Things.
I would like to invite you to join me for some craft classes with your children.
These classes came about as a way of home educating my own children during the current school closure caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
All parents are having to join forces to try and offer their children a varied schedule of work that allows them to continue to be educated whilst trying to maintain jobs and family life.
It’s going to be tough and we need to give ourselves a break. The majority of us are not qualified teachers and as such we can come together and draw from resources such as these sessions to build our own homeschooling timetables.
I have been teaching adults various crafts from my studio in Brentwood for just over 7 years and have been making and creating for many years before that.
I have a varied skillset and as such, I have put together some really simple activities that your children may enjoy taking part in.
Each Monday (During term time) I will be hosting a Livestream at 10 am direct from my Facebook business page. Simply like the page and then be ready to take part each week.
I have listed each session as an event on my business page with full details of what we will be making so that you can prepare your materials. Pop over and tick the going or interested box and share with your friends.
I will list the events down below so you can be sure you don’t miss one.
Each live stream will remain on my page so that it can be viewed after the session and I will pop back to this page and post a link so that you can come back and find it. Resources for each class will also be available as a link from this page.
Whats on:
Let’s Learn About the Romans Monday 23rd March – Learn about Roman brooches and learn to make various designs and styles
Let’s get crafty with grass Monday 30th March – We will be making grass heads and growing a tray of own grass to nurture over the Easter break
Easter Hols (2 weeks off)
Basket weaving Monday 20th April – Baskets are steeped in history, we are going to learn how to weave our own
Make a mini garden Monday 27th April – You’ve looked after that grass for 3 weeks, now it’s time to add your own fun to it and create a jungle or a fairy garden.
To find out what you need for each of these classes simply click each link and view the description on each event
Post-event replays and resources:
Let’s Learn About the Romans – Google links to support learning https://kids.kiddle.co/Fibula_(brooch)
Just like a roman SONG
Facebook Livestream REPLAY AVAILABLE HERE
Let’s grow a garden – Google links to support learning
Facebook Livestream link for replay (This will be added after the live event)
Basket weaving – Google links to support learning https://kids.kiddle.co/Basket
Facebook Livestream link for replay (This will be added after the live event)
Let’s grow a mini garden part 2
Facebook Livestream link for replay (This will be added after the live event)
If you’ve enjoyed one of my classes what can you do to help?
The sole purpose of these classes was always to educate my own children and spread the word that Beautiful Things exists as a business. So first and foremost, if you’ve enjoyed one of my classes I would love you to tell people about it. Invite your friends and family to one of my sessions and share on your social media.
Be sure you follow Beautiful Things on Instagram and also on YouTube where I regularly post FREE content for both adults and children.
(Beautiful Things is @beautifulthingshq on Instagram and I am @artyfartymack)
If you’d like to do more.
Obviously times are uncertain for all small businesses and, as I am currently unable to offer face to face classes in my studio, my income stream has been hugely reduced.
