Christmas Workshops & Classes in Chester 2026

What’s on this Christmas

Every session includes all materials and friendly step-by-step teaching, and no experience is needed.

For kids

A student’s painted night-sky canvas with a full moon and snowy pine trees on a studio easel

Light-up Christmas Canvas

For: ages 6–10
When: Saturdays 5, 12 & 19 December · 10–11:30am (3 sessions)
Price: £65 per course

Paint a festive night-time scene over three Saturday mornings, then bring it to life with real built-in fairy lights. It’s a glowing Christmas keepsake they’ll want on show every December.

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Mini Light-up Christmas Canvas: a glowing snowy village scene with Santa’s sleigh

Mini Light-up Canvas (after school)

For: ages 6–10
When: Wed 9 & 16 Dec or Thu 10 & 17 Dec · 5–6pm (2 sessions)
Price: £40 per course

Two after-school sessions to paint a mini Christmas scene and light it up with real fairy lights. It’s the perfect way to start the Christmas holidays.

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For families

Canvas & Cocoa sample painting: a snowy winter tree and pines under a pink and purple sky with a full moon

Canvas & Cocoa: Winter Wonderland

For: all ages – families, friends, children and grown-ups
When: Friday 27 November · 7–8:30pm · Pictura Creative Studio
Price: Children £30 · Adults £35

Cosy up with a hot chocolate and paint a snowy winter wonderland with frosted trees, a glowing pink-and-purple sky and a peaceful moon. Everyone takes their canvas home.

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Parent and child working together on the pottery wheel

Parent & Child Pottery Wheel Experience

For: adults with children aged 7+ (6 per class)
When: Saturday 12 December · 10am–12pm
Price: £40 per person, all materials included

Get on the wheels together and throw your own pots side by side. It’s a fun, messy, memorable Christmas-season morning out for the family.

Find out more Book Parent & Child – £40pp

A baby with a hand- and footprint “first Christmas” keepsake plate

Baby Christmas Keepsake

For: babies and little ones with their grown-ups
When: Dates announced soon – register your interest
Price: £120

Make a forever keepsake from tiny hands and feet: festive ceramic prints and decorations, glazed and fired for you, ready for baby’s first Christmas.

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For adults

A hand-pulled blue lino print of a hare inside a wreath, held up in class

Christmas Lino Printing for Beginners

For: adults, no experience needed
When: Tuesdays from 17 November · 6:30pm (4 weeks)
Price: £149, all materials included

Design, carve and print your own multicoloured reduction lino print, with a small limited edition ready to frame, give, or turn into this year’s Christmas cards.

Find out more Book lino printing – £149

A ceramic plate painted with a Van Gogh-style starry night sky and Santa’s sleigh

Glaze a Christmas Plate: Starry Night

For: adults only
When: Friday 20 November · 7–9pm · Pictura Creative Studio
Price: £35 per person (plate, glazes and firing included)

Turn a ceramic plate into your own Van Gogh-inspired winter wonderland, with swirling midnight skies, golden stars and snowy rooftops. We fire it for you, and it’ll be ready in time for Christmas.

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A student’s festive still life of glowing candles, red baubles and holly

Festive Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting

For: adults, beginners to improvers · with Ruth
When: Wednesdays 25 November – 23 December · 6:30–8:30pm (5 weeks)
Price: £115, materials included

Five cosy evenings painting winter glow, candlelight, baubles and festive still life, with metallic and collage touches. You’ll finish with a Christmas artwork to hang or give.

Find out more Book Festive Acrylic – £115

Finished watercolour Christmas cards with a robin, a wreath and snowy trees

Watercolour Christmas Cards Workshop

For: adults, beginners welcome
When: Friday 4 December · 7–9pm · Pictura Creative Studio
Price: £30 per person

Paint three personalised watercolour Christmas cards, with robins, wreaths, baubles and winter trees, while you take a breather from the Christmas rush.

Find out more Book Christmas cards – £30

A resin serving board poured with ocean-wave blues and gold leaf

Resin Serving Board or Coasters

For: adults, beginners welcome
When: Friday 11 December · 7–9pm
Price: £50

Pour your own food-safe resin serving board or set of four coasters, with ocean waves, galaxy swirls and gold leaf. It’s a one-of-a-kind present (if you can bear to give it away).

Find out more Book resin – £50

Make this Christmas a work of art 🎄