Wonder Den
Say HELLO to The Mill House’s creative little sister!
A community-led collaboration which brings young people and creatives together through the magic of art and design to co-create, educate and inspire.
My happy place ✍🏻☺️ Making the most of the peace and quiet before an event in the space today and the chaos at home! Happy Sunday ☀️
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Butterfly light 🦋🌈 That process of starting from scratch, getting creative, then having this masterpiece to be proud of is always so magical to watch, whether it’s butterfly wings or a big community piece 🥰
Happy Sunday x
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☀️ Summer workshops are live ☀️🙌🏻 We can’t wait to get creative with you!! I’ve joined forces with some lovely local creatives to bring you specialist workshops for the older ones, then I’ll be hosting the super messy workshops for the little ones - the ones that often end in complete carnage ha 🤣 but the kids love them. They’re really fun and informal, the children can work around the stations in their own time while you sit back and relax with a cuppa 😄🤞🏻
Oh and there’s 10% off for all you early birds if you book this weekend. Drop in code LETSGETCRAFTY at checkout. Offer valid until 11:59 on 24.06.24.
https://www.wonderden.co.uk/whatson
We also offer a discount for siblings, checkout the listings for more details.
Charlie x
Aw thanks guys for all your road trip orders ☺️ I’ve sold out of this print run but if you would like one for the summer hols give me a shout and I’ll add you to the next batch!!
You can either buy it as a book on its own or as a kit with the stacking pen, little wooden car and handy zip up bag!
They’re fab for the little ones on long car journeys or as a holiday scrap book ☀️
I’ll drop in a link to stories x
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Fancy joining us on Monday for a squeegee art attack? We have 2 spots left on our home Ed art club sessions!
These are really fun and informal sessions, enabling the children to explore different ways of working and to discover different mediums, from painting, to sculpture, to collage and more!
Have a swipe through to see what we’ve got up to before >>>
New block dates: 10/06, 17/06, 24/06, 01/07, 08/07
Session 1: 12:40-1:30
Session 2: 1:50-2:40
Location: The Mill House, Hertford SG13 7JY (the usual space)
Suggested age: 4-7
Length of workshop: 50 minutes
Cost: £41.50
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I’d forgotten how lovely a chilled a workshop with the grown ups is 🤣 I’ve been meaning to do more of these, ever since pre lockdown when we ran our Lates workshops, how has it been that long!
This was a couple of weeks back, we held a one off session to raise money for - a huge thank you to everyone who came a supported, we raised £300 🙌🏻🩵
And a big thank you to my wonderful sister for the piccies
Tomorrows half term workshop won’t be so chilled 😅🤣
Charlie x
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Did you know?! It’s world bee day today!! 🐝 We’ve been learning lots of fun facts about bees in our Home Ed Art Club and making bee hotels - have a little look on our stories for some crafty inspo or download our free bee activities 🙌🏻✂️🖍️✏️🐝
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We have a couple of spots left on our special Little Explorers session next Wednesday!! This is our last fundraising session of the month to raise money for CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association), who have helped us to much since having Edie 🩵
We’ll have fun making sensory wands and flower crowns, getting creative on the easels, exploring the sensory stations and soft play corner and hunting for the hidden creatures around the space. Plus lots of music, bubbles and coffee for the grown-ups!
This is a really informal session, the children can explore the stations in their own time while you relax with a cuppa.
Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Location: The Mill House SG13 7JY
Suggested age: Under 4s
The soft play corner will be supplied by the wonderful
Swipe through to see what we’ve got up to in the past >>>
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Who’s ready for cake, coffee, crafty fun and face painting in the ☀️☀️☀️ this weekend?!
We’re kicking off our fundraising month tomorrow outside 9am-12pm.
We have some deeelicious cakes donated by .hq and the wonderful has kindly offered to do an hour of face painting 10-11am. Plus lots of crafting and colouring with me!
See you there xx
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These fab piccies have just popped up from last years - can’t wait to be back again this summer with a bigger and better tent and lots of new crafty fun 🥳 Plus our giant doodle wall, the amazing , loads of inflatables, Lego, yoga and lots more!
We were chatting through some fab ideas this morning. A combo of that and sun finally coming out got me all excited for the festival fun we have lined up over the next few months!
Tickets aren’t on sale yet but you can sign up to be the first to know when they are - can’t wait to see you there!
See you there ☀️
Charlie x
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So here’s something a little different! Next week is cleft awareness week and as most of you know, our little Edie was born with a Cleft lip and palate and has been undergoing various corrective procedures over the last 18 months or so!
Our champions of support have been who have accompanied us on this journey, so we want to do what we can to support this fantastic charity! 💙
We are running 3 events in May…
🩵 CAKE + CREATE
11.05.24 | 9-12pm
Cake sale and crafty fun outside on Saturday 11th! If you’re at a class that morning or you’re free to come and join us, you can enjoy coffee, cake and lots of crafty fun! Fingers crossed for ☀️😅 No need to book just pop along. Cake donations welcomed!
💜 SIP + CREATE
18.05.24 | 7:30-9:30pm
This one’s for the grown ups! Bring along your mates and enjoy Prosecco while making a gorgeous wall hanging. It’s a super fun and informal evening, no previous experience needed, I’ll guide you through! 😄🥂
🩷 PLAY + CREATE
22.05.24 | 10:30-12:30pm
Our Little Explorers workshop is back for the under 4s! Get ready for a fun morning exploring the messy play, sensory stations and soft play corner supplied by the wonderful . Plus music, bubbles and most importantly…coffee for the grown ups! ☕️🎨🥳 Edie can’t wait for this one!
All proceeds go to CLAPA 💙
There’s a link in our bio with more info about each event, we can’t wait to see you this month for lots of creative fun!!
Charlie x
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Here I am kicking off the festival season early at Harts Fest the other week when the sun shone and we all thought summer had arrived 🤣
The week leading up to the event our little artists made colourful bugs which we popped into the grass, they loved coming down on the day and seeing their work on display 🥰 We had loads of fun junk modelling, guitar decorating and crafting our way through the afternoon!!
We have lots more festival fun planned over the next few months! More to be revealed soon xx
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Our half term Art Party is back 🙌🏻🐠🐙 This time we’re going under the sea - a special theme request from some of our little artists 🥰
We’ll be painting big sea creatures, making jellyfish wands, decorating biscuits, scavenger hunting AND the wonderful will be with us face painting 😃 Plus all the usual music, bubbles and coffee for the grown ups!
We’re going big with this one as it’s the only session we’re running over half term. Instead we’re popping up with some special fundraising events throughout May to raise money for CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association) who have supported Edie and us so much the last couple of years 🩵 More to be announced this weekend!
Link in bio to book!! 💥
Happy Friday x
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One week to go 🙌🏻 We’ll be popping up at Harts Fest next Saturday 12-4pm along side lots of other lovely creative businesses!
Save any interesting bits of recycling this week then bring them along and we’ll turn them into amazing makes!! Plus we have guitar decorating, scavenger hunts and lots of other crafty fun lined up.
Swipe through to see what we got up to last year >>>
If you can’t make next Saturday, why not join us for some Easter baking or Minecraft fun in the week. There are couple of spots left on our Thursday/Friday workshops, link in bio for more info…
Have a lovely Saturday ☀️
Charlie x
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Here’s some Easter crafty inspo for little crafters out there!! 🐣🐰✏️✂️ They’re all super easy to do at home and perfect for a rainy afternoon. It’s amazing what you can do with an egg carton, some wooden spoons or a tin can!
Swipe through and have a little look or head over to the website to download the free Easter activity pack - egg hunt and bunting templates, word searches, colouring-in and more! Link in bio.
Happy Easter you lovely lot ☀️
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Hanging out with these little artists on a Monday is the best 🥰 Yesterday we had fun drawing all things Easter on the floor together, then we made Easter bunting.
Every Monday we focus on something different with the Home Ed gang! The last few weeks we’ve experimented with clay, painted with sound, learnt about Op Art and block printed bags.
We’ll be kicking off another term after Easter, we may have a couple of spots available, if so I’ll share the link and you can join us 🙌🏻
If you’re looking for something crafty to do before then we have our holiday workshops running 9th-13th April - link in bio 🌈
Thanks to for the piccie x
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Happy Friday!! Easter workshops are live if you’d like to join us for some creative fun over the hols - bake alongs, crafternoons, Minecraft and more! We’re also popping up at Herts Fest at Hertford Castle on 13.04 🙌🏻✂️✏️🐞🖌️🥣🎨🦋
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Loving this half term Fifty Thrifty list!
Stuck for things to do in Hertfordshire this February half term? Check out our Fifty Thrifty list for ideas on activities and days out all for low or no cost: https://orlo.uk/FbxnH
For all those budding artists and illustrators out there, we have a couple of spots left on our Tween Sketch club next Wednesday! 🤩
will guide you through all things to do with perspective! You’ll learn what perspective is in art, and why you should use it when you are trying to illustrate a story. We will look at one-point perspective and how you can add depth to your illustration using a vanishing point and disappearing lines. You will practice and apply what you have learned by trying to reproduce two of Vincent Van Gogh famous paintings.
Date: Wednesday 21st February
Time: 11am-12pm
Location: Mill Stream studio SG13 7JY (Building opposite The Mill House, first floor)
Length of workshop: 1 hour
Suggested age: 8-12
This is a small workshop, where each child will have the opportunity to work and learn with Leila. All materials will be provided, having said that, you are welcome to bring your favourite colouring pencils or markers and your sketchbooks for critique!
Charlie x
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I found this last night hiding in my inbox, I’m not quite sure how I missed it but it made my day! I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know these lovely girls at our Home Ed Art Club the last few months 💜
I first started running home school classes way back when I first opened the space but I found it a real challenge, with a wide range of ages and interests to cater for (including the parents 😅), I felt I was being pulled in all directions and not pleasing anyone so I stopped them.
A lovely Mum messaged me last year asking when I was running them again and I said I wasn’t 😅 but after a bit of arm twisting I caved in and last autumn started them back up, and I’ve loved it!
I think over the last 5 years I’ve learnt a lot. I’m better at planning the sessions and it helps I have Otts who’s a similar age. I’ve also restricted the age range and parent input 😅 The pressures off which means I’m enjoying it more and so are the kids! Check out stories to see what we got up to today.
If you have a budding artist who would be interested in these sessions, we run them on a Monday lunchtime, the next block starts on 26/02 and there may be a spot or two available so pop me a message if you’re interested!
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I must admit Valentines isn’t really my thing 😅 but I know the kids love it so I thought I’d drop in some of my fave Val Day crafts and share them with you! A lot are super easy to do at home… there’s hand printing ideas for the little ones and simple cardboard tube art, then mindfulness crafting and painting for the older ones and there are some super cute nature based card ideas for the outdoorsey kids too 🙌🏻
Why not get crafty this weekend!! Can’t wait to see what you make 🤩 x
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Throwing all the colour at Jan!! 🌈 🎨 Here’s a little round up of what we’ve been up to - home ed art club • Sea rescue and outer space art parties • Getting creative with Otts • Lion printing with the littles • Edie’s first nursery artwork 🥳
Music chosen by Otts 😄🌈
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Half term workshops are live 🎨✏️✂️🙌🏻 I’ve been beavering away, meeting with some of our lovely creatives to bring you lots of creative fun this half term!
We have our usual crafternoons for the littles, Mini Me Yoga + Mindfulness crafting with myself and the lovely Jenny , Neill is back running a Lego Robotics workshop and Leila is running another Tween Sketch club all about perspective and a Minecraft Pixel Art drawing sesh!
Less than 4 weeks to go - eek! I’ll pop the link in the bio x
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Anddd we’re back!! 🙌🏻 Off to run back-to-back Home Ed workshops today with a lovely bunch of kids, getting all messy on the floor mark making!
The end of 2023 was pretty crazy with moving house and Edie’s op, but we’re all settled in our new home and ready for 2024. Edie is starting nursery so I can’t wait for a little more time for Wonder Den. Excited to see what 2024 has in store 😃🙌🏻
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Our Christmas Eve Art boxes are now live for you to pre-order 🙌🏻 If you’ve got a little artist in the family, these are perfect for them. They include a fun crafty pack, letter from Santa, reindeer food to sprinkle outside on Christmas Eve and a sweet treat 😋 It all comes in a super cute personalised box!
You can collect from The Mill House at a time that suits you or I can pop it in the post!
Tap the link in our bio for more info!
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