Art & Craft Workshops

Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year A vibrant session with dragon making, Chinese crafts, Calligraphy, Mini Terracotta Warriors and Chinese background music. Learn ho...


Banner Making
Banner Making Fabric banners, wall hangings, sticky backed plastic banners to survive the rain. OPAG can help you create whatever kind of...


Carnival Arts
Carnival Art Mask making, headdresses and simple costume making with props for a parade or carnival. Longer term projects can include carnival walk...


Ceramic Painting
Ceramic Painting Decorating plates. mugs and/or bowls with ceramic pens which can be baked to set in a domestic oven with the help of a responsible...


Circus Skills DIY
Circus Skills DIY Have a go at plate spinning, poi twirling, juggling with balls, rings and clubs, master the devil stick, whizz and catch the diab...


Dragon Making
Dragon Making For a street parade, for Chinese New Year, a mascot or a character to live in the woods. A great group project which can combine recy...


Face Painting
Face Painting OPAG can supply experienced face painters with a wide repertoire of designs to attract people to your event, enhance fantasy play or ...


Family Active
Family Active A session of physical activity suitable for all the family. We’ll bring swingballs, space hoppers to fit children and adu...


Themed Play Days
Themed Play Days Pick a theme for one of our combined arts days. Activities can include backdrops, simple costumes, props, big junk models, drama, ...


Healthy Cooking With Children
Healthy Cooking Healthy cooking sessions with great taste and variety led by playworkers with plenty of experience of delivering cooking activities...


Den Building
Den Making Indoor or outdoor den making in all weathers. OPAG can bring everything you need to build shelters, hidey holes and create a space that ...


Junk Modelling
Junk Modelling OPAG can bring a pile of interesting and unusual junk to get children’s ideas rolling. No two sessions are the same that&rsquo...


Joke Book
Joke Book Create your own group joke book from scratch. Collect your favourite jokes, illustrate them, stand up and tell them to one another, laugh...


Parade In A Day
Parade In A Day Create waveables, bangables and wearables - including hats, headdresses or masks followed by a short impromptu parade with junk mus...


Recycled Fashion Show
Recycled Fashion Show Get your group to bring themselves an old garment ready to revamp with pockets, trimmings, studs, sequins and fabric paints. ...


Printing
Printing A simple polystyrene print making workshop. Design and make simple reverse prints using polystyrene tiles and print onto card, paper or fa...


Quick Win Arts
Quick Win Arts A pick and mix session of 4 quick win arts activities providing children with the opportunity to ‘make something nice to take ...


Team Challenges
Team Challenges Team building activities, including arts, games and imaginative tasks, with fun and challenge all the way....


Outdoor Team Challenges
OutdoorTeam Challenges A host of small and larger group games and challenges designed to get people working together and getting to know one anothe...


Parachute Games and Co-operative Games Session
Parachute Games & Co-operative Games Session A structured games session including parachute play. drama games, physical games and co-operative ...


Bubbles
Bubbles A fun outdoor activity for ages 3 plus. Bubble mixture, trays and a range of bubble making items including blowers and the use of recycled ...


Clock Making
Clock Making Make a real working clock, all craft materials, components and batteries included. Great for teaching children to tell the time....


Consultation Arts
Consultation Arts OPAG has a wide range of arts based activities and exercises for use to consult children, young people and adults on issues that ...


Cooking With Children
Cooking Themed cooking sessions eg Mexican with homemade burritos, salads and salsa led by playworkers with plenty of experience of delivering cook...


Batik
Batik Learn a new skills and create small or a large group piece using this wax resist technique. Suitable for ages 8 plus only due to use of hot w...


Adventures In Play
Adventures In Play Outdoor activities that turn a trip to Oldham’s parks and green spacers into an adventure for your group....


Festivals & Cultures Day
Festivals & Cultures Day A day of short presentations, art and craft activities, group tasks and our ‘Heaven Knows’ quiz to help gr...


Glass Painting
Glass Painting Individual or group projects on Perspex, glasses, jam jars, mirror tiles or acetate....


Junk Instruments
Junk Instruments OPAG can bring a pile of interesting and unusual junk to get children’s ideas rolling. No two sessions are the same that&rsq...


Lantern Making
Lantern Making Create traditional tissue and withie lanterns for decoration of for a community parade. All materials, table coverings etc provided....


Mask Making
Mask Making Create African masks, opera masks, animal masks, masquerade masks, superhero masks, disguises etc to fit your theme. OPAG can bring eve...


Mod Roc Mask Making
Mod Roc Mask Making Create masks directly from children’s faces using Vaseline a mod roc plaster bandage strips for a perfect likeness. Casts...


Outdoor Arts
Outdoor Arts Nature and environment inspired arts including tree monsters, mini gardens, clay creatures, pebble painting, leaf pictures, found obje...


Outdoor Cooking
Outdoor Cooking Camp cooking, bbq vegetables and baked bananas, with added fun and games....


Puppet Making
Puppet Making Choose from different types of simple puppet making, glove puppets, spoon puppets, stringers puppets, sock puppets and junk puppets. ...


Recycled Arts
Recycled Arts Nothing is what it seems, create new and wonderful art works, models and sculptures from safe waste materials scrounged from local in...


Shadow Puppets
Shadow Puppets Create shadow puppet characters and scenery from simple materials. Run over several sessions and combine with making up a story and ...


Team Building - Planning Away Days
Team Building - Planning Away Days Interactive session or day with staff, paid and volunteer, teams to help them shape future events, plan activiti...


Team Challenges
Team Challenges Team building activities, including arts, games and imaginative tasks, with fun and challenge all the way....


Totem Pole Painting
Totem Pole Painting A great way to transform a grassed outdoor space for site decoration, directions or for a fun painting activity....


Visual Minuiting
Visual Minuting A creative visual way of capturing the key points from your meeting, planning session, conference or consultation. Share your ideas...


National Play Day 2017
National Playday is held every year 1st wednesday in August And all FREE ...
