Christmas Crafts - Retford Library - Adult Learning

The Christmas Craft course will give you the opportunity to explore a range of materials and processes to create a selection of beautiful Christmas inspired products. The course is suitable for all abilities and is a fun way to get creative and try out new ideas and techniques. Each week we will have fun exploring different processes and will create a range of products which you can take home. You will learn through demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition. By the end of the course, everyone will have explored and gained confidence in using a range of decorative techniques and will have produced a collection of unique Christmas themed products. 

During the course, we will make a variety of eye-catching Christmas themed products. We will begin our first session by manipulating wire to create simple Christmas bead decorations which will look wonderful on display in your home. During our second session, we will create charming Christmas cards, giving you the opportunity to experiment with colour and pattern to make beautiful designs. In week three, we will create Christmas themed button artwork, which would look brilliant on display at home or make a fantastic gift for a loved one. During week 4, we will learn the technique of macrame, using a variety of knots to make simple Christmas tree decorations. We will create cute, wooden house hanging decorations in week 5. For those learners attending the six-week course, we will also experiment with printing techniques to create colourful gift wrap patterns and designs. 

Resources required:

Week 1 - craft wire, wire cutters, wooden beads, wooden stars, hot glue gun

Week 2 - plain craft cards, your choice of paints, coloured pens, ribbons, buttons, sequins, collage materials, glue, scissors

Week 3 - a range of buttons, hot glue gun / PVA glue, small plain canvas

Week 4 - macrame cord (3mm), scissors, masking tape, tape measure

Week 5 - wooden lollypop sticks, hot glue gun, acrylic paint / pens

Week 6 - plain brown wrapping paper / gift bags, acrylic paints, paint brushes, 1 piece of craft foam, scissors

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.