Creative and sustainable workshops for schools

How we can make rubbish work for your school

We bring everything to you. Our workshops are mobile and fully equipped with all the materials and worksheets needed,. Each session focusing on a particular material or creative technique. Our relaxed and welcoming approach helps every child feel comfortable and ready to have a go.

We work in partnership with schools and educational provision to create positive, practical creative experiences that encourage children to explore, discover and develop skills they can carry into the future. Each session celebrates the power of creativity in sustainability, encouraging everyone to explore how art can transform everyday rubbish into something beautiful and meaningful.

With gratitude for all life, materials and talents, we engage in creative activities using single-stream materials, discovering the possibility of resources that might otherwise be thrown in the bin, or worse, tossed carelessly into the environment.

Our leaders are sensitive to the growing pressures children face today. By nurturing an appreciation for the gifts found in the natural world, we help children see that waste can be potential, a resource full of possibility, inspiring curiosity, resilience, and creative thinking.

Dedicated craft leaders are Enhanced DBS checked and first-aid trained, providing friendly, step-by-step guidance and to children of all abilities.

A sustainable living education system

Stewardship and entrepreneurship, are heart-rooted at Artcycle. Our eco, art-and-craft-based workshops nurture the connection between emotional wellbeing and the environment. Because of this, we are able to help with sustainable living education programmes. Our downloadable signage is free so you can initiate a circular economy by separating waste at source for the repurposing of items into an arts and craft material bank.

School visits & workshops

As part of your sustainability curriculum, we enjoy talking about waste and recycling. Invite us to present at your next assembly talk, or work with early years and juniors with age appropriate material Identification games and activities made from recycled items.

Material bank resources

Signs, symbols and colour make recycling and material identification child's play. Get started today, by downloading print-ready worksheets, activity sheets. Build your in-house recycling program at your school or classroom, that is engaging and gives pupils a fun way to engage and manage their own materials bank.

The Cool-Kids After School Club–Junior Reshapers

Artcycle workshops invite KS3 and KS4 pupils to explore the creative potential of ordinary waste materials. In small, supportive groups, pupils learn practical craft skills while transforming everyday discarded materials into beautiful, useful and imaginative new things.

Our workshops are designed to encourage creativity, confidence, problem-solving and sustainable thinking — helping pupils see waste in a completely different way.

Try a taster course

Want to try our 4-week Junior Reshaper taster? It's a great way to experience the workshops before committing to a full term. Each session is guided step-by-step, with pupils supported throughout the creative process.

What's included:

• Step-by-step guided workshops

• Small groups of 6–8 pupils

• 12-week term sessions, with pupils exploring a different waste material every 3 weeks

• Worksheets and supporting activities

• All prepared materials

• Equipment provided

• Certificates of completion

• A tee shirt or PE bag for pupils who complete the full
  term time course

• Convenient online booking through Artcycle's website

• Free places available

Safe, supportive and child-centred

Workshops are delivered by dedicated, child-centred craft recyclers who are First Aid trained and also hold an Enhanced DBS certificates.

All workshops are risk assessed, and an allergy safety policy helps ensure pupils with allergies are protected.

A new creation

Artcycle is more than a craft workshop. It's an opportunity for pupils to make, experiment, learn and thrive while discovering the possibilities hidden in materials that might otherwise be thrown away.

I am told the children loved the session on
Monday and there has been a buzz about signing
up to the after school club which is great.

Charlton Independent School

★★★★★

Workshops inside

Classroom talks includes presenting unusual items that can be reshaped with a taster workshop and games to help children identify and separate materials to avoid contamination into waste streams.

Workshops outside

Artcycle like to make recycling fun. In the summer we have a pyramid tent, which is a nice to way to extend a classroom session. There's plenty of space to keep crafters cool. Also ideal for school fetes.

Artcycle's eye-catching pop-up booth separates the sessions away from the classroom. It's themed and decorated panels make it an engaging way to keep children focused on crafty things.

Workshops inside & outside

Free places

Welcoming a new generation of environmentally aware young creators with imagination, teamwork, and community spirit. Free places are available as cost should not be a barrier to taking part in Arcycle's mission.

Why choose Artcycle?

The benefits of eco art are endless – discover more about the imaginative adventure and join us to help you reshape your life, your community and your town.

• Engaging, and educating practical activities

• Delivered directly at
  your venue

• Suitable for different ages and abilities

• Flexible workshops

• Experienced outreach delivery

• Designed around your group's needs

Connect with us to find out more about junk workshops.

Nurturing for future generations

Creation for the heart, soul and mind

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20 Shearwater Avenue
Portchester
Hampshire
PO16 8YE

+(44)07788 577468

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