Artesanía Región de Murcia, launches a new program of summer crafts workshops, aimed at children from 5 to 12 years old, which will be taught in two shifts, one in the morning, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and another in the afternoon, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

These activities will start on June 27 until September 9, 2022, coinciding with the summer holidays.

Specifically, five craft workshops have been scheduled where children will be able to learn first-hand about crafts and enjoy a unique experience making their own products. The training offer is detailed below.

• Painting workshop with Andrea Lopardo. Monday (morning) and Friday (afternoon). Practical painting workshop focused on children with artistic interests, who wish to develop a personal project experiencing the learning of different techniques.
• Paper braiding workshop with Isabel Puig. Tuesday (morning) and Thursday (afternoon). Plastic creation activity, where children can make their own keychain, cutting, plasticizing and braiding recycled paper.
• Pottery workshop with Verónica Maccorin. Tuesday (afternoon) and Wednesday (morning). In this creation workshop, children will create their own handmade and personalized sculpture, having a direct experience with clay and observing its transformation, acquiring a new language related to crafts and arts.
• Basketry workshop with Antonio Narváez. Wednesday (afternoon) and Thursday (morning). In this workshop the student will learn the handling of wicker and esparto grass. The teacher will teach them to shape a rounded shape starting from the manual braiding of the different natural fibers that they use to make a small basket. The workshop works on imagination, psychomotricity.
• Leather goods workshop with Ángel Luis Molina. Monday (afternoon) and Friday (morning). Plastic creation activity, in which it is intended that students come into contact with this noble material such as leather, and experience the sensation of dealing with manual tools for embossing, and create a bracelet with their hands and their imagination.

Registrations can be made by email: centroartesaniamurcia@salzillosi.com, by phone 968 35 75 37 or in person at the Murcia Regional Craft Center, located at Calle Francisco Rabal, 6.