Festive Crafts (Digital Skills) - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Celebrate the season with creativity in this joyful and hands-on Festive Crafts course.

Designed for adults who love to make and create, this workshop explores a variety of seasonal and cultural celebrations through craft using digital technology including AI. Improve your handmade decorations using AI.

You’ll enjoy a relaxed and sociable environment while learning new techniques and ideas.

On this course you will have the chance to blend traditional crafting with modern technology generating festive images and designs. These can be printed and transformed into personalised items, gift tags, or decorations.

With guidance on using Microsoft Word to format and personalise your creations, perfect for gifting or display.

This course, for adults, is funded by the UK Government through the Shared Prosperity Fund.

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.