What’s On

Build your own extravagant flower crown  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 exploring with clay and paint.

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

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

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.

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 paint curious sea creatures to add to our giant aquarium.

This summer we are offering creative activities both in the CAST building and out of doors. The CAST-Off programme will return to the Walled Garden at National Trust Penrose and we have also planned three days of Lightbox activities in the black box and learning spaces at CAST.

Trace a friend’s portrait using camera obscura technology. Dress up and strike a pose for an old-fashioned black and white portrait. Make wiggly compositions from seaweed and use the power of the sun to develop your very own cyanotypes:

Join Vicky Wiltshire from Clay Trap to make your own clay creature, talisman or charm. If you would like to keep your creation you will have the option to have it fired, at a cost of £5 per item. Participants of all ages are welcome.

Make an articulated contraption, taking inspiration from machines and ‘things that go’. Build your very own zoetrope – an animation device that will make your drawings come to life! Use camera obscura technology to make portraits in Jonathan Polkest’s ‘Draw Me/Tedna Ve’ booth.

Three free days of family friendly activity will offer opportunities to to experiment with some of the scientific techniques that underpin the processes of photography and moving image.

Create sea monsters and curious underwater shadow puppets and make your own slides to project in our black box space, or trace a friend’s portrait using camera obscura technology.

Join Lucy Grant to find out about lantern traditions around the world, use wax and tissue paper to create translucent shapes and make your own special lantern. Participants of all ages are welcome.