CAST-Off Saturday 24 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with in our colour kitchen. Make tiny clay piskie party ware at Mud Club. Build your own wooden construction. Create prints using different types of seaweed!
CAST-Off Saturday 17 August
See the world through a colourful new lens using specially made kaleidoscopes. Learn how to polish Serpentine into a shiny pendant. Paint your own plants and creatures and add them to a giant garden landscape frieze, and mould creatures out of clay to inhabit the garden.
CAST-Off Saturday 10 August
Transform yourself into a mythical creature by making your own folk-inspired mask. Build your own wooden construction. Gather natural materials and use them to make a cyanotype print, using the power of the sun.
CAST-Off Saturday 3 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with, in our colour kitchen. Build your own wooden construction. Make houses, people, cars, trees, and animals to create a clay world!
CAST-Off Saturday 27 July
Join our talented artist team to learn how to engrave a tiny plate to print on our miniature printing press. Draw or press your own tessellating patterns into clay, using a set stamps made especially by the team at Clay Trap
CAST-Off Summer 2024
Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities will return this summer, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 27 July to 24 August in the walled garden at National Trust Penrose.
FOLD-OUT STORY BOOKS
Lucy Grant will lead a free workshop for families with children to make fold-out concertina books, draw picture journeys and map imaginary worlds.
BOTANICAL SPECIMENS
For this Easter holiday family workshop CAST’s black box will be transformed into a fun and informative immersive environment for exploration and play.
Children's Films
A selection of children’s films will be shown in CAST’s black box screening space every day, Tuesday to Saturday, during the Easter holidays.
Creatures from the kiln
Join ceramicist Sarah Fassnidge from Clay Trap in CAST’s learning studio to make your own creature, talisman or charm.
WALL-E
A much-loved and entertaining animation with minimal dialogue, Wall-E tells the story of a small, rather hopeless-looking robot
CAST-OFF: MAKE AND PLAY AT CHURCH COVE
Make a brush, paint a pebble, dam the stream and see what will float.
CAST-OFF IN THE WALLED GARDEN
Print with fruit and veg, construct with wood, paint a portrait, carve into stone
CAST-OFF: MAKE AND PLAY AT CORONATION GARDENS
Create your own junk vehicles using recycled materials and work together to make a giant marble run.
CAST-OFF: Make and Play at Coronation Gardens
Design and make your own folk mask, and work together to weave a nest big enough to sit in.
CAST-OFF IN THE WALLED GARDEN
Draw with a shell, polish a stone, make beads out of clay
CAST-OFF IN THE WALLED GARDEN
Paint a portrait of Salty the dog, help build a giant nest, make a tiny print
CAST-OFF: Make and Play at Coronation Gardens
Make a paper aeroplane or a fish kite using recycled materials and take flight around the gardens.
CAST-OFF IN THE WALLED GARDEN
Build with wood or clay. Make a tiny print, a big brush or a painting on a giant canvas.
CAST-OFF SUMMER 2023
CAST-Off will return to the Walled Garden at Penrose this summer
Christmas Print Shop
Join us in our creative Christmas print shop to work simple forms into bold, bright Scandinavian folk-style patterns.
SHADOW PLAY
Members of CAST’s learning team will be in the black box space, with ready-made puppets and props on hand
Lumos
As the Autumn nights draw in and darkness falls, shine a light with a paper lantern for your window.
SHADOW PUPPETS
Make an articulated spring shadow puppet in our learning studio.