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Art and Design Workshops for Schools

Creative arts and performing arts

Looking for art workshops that bring creativity directly into your UK school for inspiring hands-on sessions?

Art workshops delivered in-school feature drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media projects, encouraging self-expression, technique development, and links to history or science topics while giving every child a chance to shine artistically.

The art themed workshops on this page are designed to allow your children to explore their creativity and self expression. These workshops often cover a wide range of topics including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, collage, graffiti, theatre, drama, dance, beatboxing, DJing and music, allowing children to explore different forms of artistic expression.

These workshops offer plenty of opportunity to get their hands messy with different media, or get energetic with movement. Topics may also include exploring famous artists and artistic movements, helping your budding artists to further their understanding of art history.

These hands on art workshops include activities that not only encourage them to work on their artistic flair, but also encourage them to think critically, to problem solve and to tell stories with their work. The workshop companies who run these courses will help make are fun, engaging and meaningful.

The value of these workshops to children extends beyond developing technical skills, they also help with confidence and self expression, allow them to think imaginatively and to express themselves confidently.

Find a workshop to visit your school to learn about following Art topics: Animation, Bookbinding, Comics, Craft, Design, Drawing, History of Art, Multimedia, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Urban Arts, and more.

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Popular school workshop June 2026 !

Dance Carnival Brazil

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Art Get ready to explore the vibrant streets of Rio de Janeiro through dance. There are so many wonderful South American Latin styles (Samba, Bolero, Capoerira, Funk Carioca) ' it's time to dust off our dancing shoes and give them a go!

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Arctic and Antarctic
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to ensure your chosen topic is as accessible and engaging as possible for your pupils.
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Safer Internet Day Workshops
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Our approach to education uses theatre and drama to bring learning to life for students on important topics. In our online safety workshops students take part in role-play activities to help them to apply new skills and strategies to stay safe online.
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Mental Health & Wellbeing Workshops
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Our Mental Health and Wellbeing Workshops are delivered by professional performers, in the workshops we use drama, storytelling, and role-play to help students explore emotions and build resilience in...
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Stone Age Workshops
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Kingdom of Benin
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Christmas and Easter Pantomime Workshops
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In a pantomime performing arts workshop for children, they will have the opportunity to learn the basics of pantomime, such as body language, facial expressions, and nonverbal communication. They will...
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Greek Workshops
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, team work exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Mary Anning
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All of our workshops are designed to support children's learning in Drama and Performing Arts. We use a wide range of drama techniques to engage all children in the topic and ensure our sessions are completely inclusive so that all children can learn, develop and grow.
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Mayan Civilisations
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All of our activities are designed to support children's learning in Drama and Performing Arts. Through carefully planned activities and exercises, children use their bodies and voices expressively, develop their imaginations and learn new theatrical vocabulary.
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Indus Valley
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All of our workshops are designed to support children's learning in Drama and Performing Arts. Through carefully planned activities and exercises, an Altru workshop allows children to expressively use their face, body and voice to develop their confidence, creativity and imagination!
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Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Black History KS1: Nelson Mandela & Rosa Parks
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Maths Workshops
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Art & Sculpture where pupils make a sculpture inspired by a detail of an abstract painting. Olympic Sculptures challenges pupils to make an athlete in the pose of an Olympic event. We developed a...
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Olympic Games
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Anti-Bullying Workshops
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Performance and drama is at the core of everything that we do. Our approach uses forum theatre and role-play. So your students will be up on their feet taking part and learning new skills through...
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Viking Workshops
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Roman Workshop
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor. Within our Roman Workshop the...
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Preparing for Panto!
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Space Travel
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At The Drama Hut all of our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, group activities, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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