Hands on art workshops

Sign up for a Historic Graffiti workshop for Home Eduction families.

This is a free workshop.

Funded by The Heritage Lottery as part of the Flamstead Heritage project.

12/5/25 & 23/6/25 // 10am-2.00pm // St Leonard’s Church, Flamstead, St Albans, AL3 8BS

Learn about historic graffiti on the walls and pillars at St Leonard’s Church and make your own graffiti art to take home!

A practical workshop where students will learn about what graffiti is, who did it hundreds of years ago and how we know about it today. Students will explore the Church on a graffiti hunt and learn about why these marks were made, who made them and what they were saying.

“It was an amazing day - thank you so much for hosting us! The children loved it!”

We have run these workshops for the Heritage Lottery and Flamstead Heritage project for nearly 2 years and they have been a huge success.

Children have access to our beautiful church and its story, learning about a unique and socially important style of art in its graffiti. Without the usual rules and restrictions! We can talk, explore and be creative.

To read about the Flamstead Heritage project please click here.

I’m Eve Broadhurst.

I’m an illustrator and practising artist based in Hertfordshire. I have been running arts/education workshops for over 15 years would love to help your little ones build confidence in their creativity.

Qualifications:

BA(hons) Embroidery and MA Collaborative Design at Manchester School of Art.

OCR Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocations Achievement

OCR Level 3 Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector

Current DBS certificate

I’m mum to Delilah and Jerry 4/8 so very relaxed with the chaos of mixing art with little ones and have been teaching art workshops for a vveeeerrryyyy long time.

Plus have a go at the St Leonard’s Explorer Pack!

Bringing siblings to entertain? or if you would like to make a day of it then grab an Explorer Pack and discover the churchyard creatures, answer literacy questions, draw your church of the future and other fun tasks in our very own kids pack. These are available in the church.

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 FAQs

  • There are 15 places per workshop and it is first come first serve.

    If we are full I will email you with alternative dates and workshops.

  • This is aimed at any students from 4-16 years and there may be a wide range of ages attending on the day. We ask that the older students bare with us as we will be working to accommodate the younger students as well so patience will be appreciated! There is plenty of time for independent practice so everyone should feel satisfied.

  • Yes. We ask that you stay within the church or surrounding area. If your child is happy working and you are confident to give them independence, we are more than happy with this however we do not have the ratio of staff to to responsible for all children.

  • Packed lunch ( we break from 12pm-1pm)

    Waterproofs so you can explore the churchyard when doing the Explorer Pack.

    Messy clothes - we will be using paints and having lots of fun!