CAST-Off Archives - CAST

CAST-Off Saturday 23 August

Learn how to make your own plantable paper with seeds embedded, create your own construction from wood, or polish serpentine into a shiny pendant. You can also have a go on our tiny printing press or make an enormous vegetable print!

CAST-Off Saturday 16 August

Listen carefully and sculpt the sounds you hear out of different coloured plasticine, or see what water-carrying structures you can make with tubes and pipes. There will also be an opportunity to try your hand at creating felt pods, mask-making, and building with clay.

CAST-Off Saturday 9 August

Make a kite to fly in the wind in the shape of a fish and see what you can build from wood. Spend time painting and try your hand at printmaking using a portable press.

CAST-Off Saturday 2 August

Build your own extravagant flower crown to wear out of cardboard and use flotsam and jetsam to add to a giant aquarium. Try your hand at stone carving and wood working, and spend time playing with clay and paint.

CAST-Off Saturday 26 July

Join our team of talented artists and learn how to make nature-print photo journals and create constructions from wood. You can also mix earth colours and botanical inks to paint with and make your own ‘monster’ self-portrait!

CAST-Off Summer 2025

Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities will return this summer, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 26 July to 23 August in the walled garden at National Trust Penrose.

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.