Do it yourself: make your own Christmas presents at these London workshops
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From bauble-painting or wreath-making to wood-turning, weaving or even glassblowing, the scope’s huge.
Book a space for £10 an hour, with tutors on hand, or join a workshop from £30 for calligraphy, painting, drawing, pottery or card.
Blackhorse Workshop for wood and metalwork in Walthamstow E17 is open to all, from simple jobs to large-scale projects.
One-day Christmas courses include making a chopping board on Saturday or turning a wooden bowl on Dec 16, both £65.
East London artist Alex Booker, known for his woodcuts, opens his Booker Print House studio in Limehouse E3 for one-day workshops at £90.
Make Christmas cards or a print using traditional tools and special inks (Dec 1, 2, 8, 16).
Or in N1, let RCA graduate jeweller Kia Utzon-Frank guide you as you make a small sculpture, £25, on Dec 9 or 11 at KUF Studios.
In Muswell Hill, collage artist Rosalind Freeborn hosts weekend paper craft sessions, £48. Make a Christmas collage, print it on the spot and turn it into a lamp shade.
Saturday mornings/Sunday afternoons, or weekdays for groups by arrangement. Visit Papershades.
Blow a bauble classes with glass artist Adam Aaronson in West Horsley, Surrey, cost £40.
For similar in SE27, priced £35, go to artist Michael Ruh on Dec 2, 3, 10.
In Brixton SW9, Central Saint Martins graduate Jude de Berker has a Christmas pop-up.
Create a wreath, with mulled wine on the side, for £45 on Dec 16-18; hand-paint five glass baubles for £25 on Dec 20 or 21, or make a silver ring, £45, on Dec 13. Visit Turpentine.
Weave a scarf to your own design on a vintage power loom at Daniel Harris’s mill, The London Cloth Company, in Thornwood, Epping, Essex, for £125 on December 1, 2, 4, 8 or 9.
Plant a self-watering terrarium and take it away for £30-£40 at classes by Will Lawrence and Madeleine Taylor of Jar & Fern, including Dec 5 at Mercato Metropolitano in SE1 and Dec 12 at Lumberjack Café, SE5. Their afternoon wreath workshops, £22.50-£30, are in SW18, SE5 and N22.
Find more terrarium classes at Leafage. Make a Christmas hat box at Jane Packer’s flower school in W1, £60.
Head to West India Quay for a series of six festive craft workshops on December 17. Join Earls of East for a candle making class or take part in an indoor terrarium-making workshop with Jar & Fern, both priced at £15.
Browse hundreds of crafts and workshops at obby.co.uk, a collective of creative teachers. Make jewellery in E9 or reclaimed leather slippers in E1, £70. Create Christmas cards for £30 in SE1.
Check out London Craft Club for Christmas cracker making on December 2 or 3, priced £29.
At design store SCP (Curtain Road, E2), make cards with Donna Wilson, £8, and decorate ceramics with Reiko Kaneko, £11.
Find more classes at the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch.
Waitrose Christmas is for Cooking schools are in Finchley Road, NW3 and Granary Square, N1C. Make fudge and chutneys, £75; festive macaroons, £50, or a Christmas pudding baked Alaska for £25.
Divertimenti hands-on cookery classes in Brompton Road, SW3 are £115, and demo classes are £65. Eat what you cook.
Bake-off judge Prue Leith will hold extra Christmas classes, priced £155, if necessary at her Leith's cookery school in Wendell Road, W12.