Sunday, October 21: Making bricks

Today's workshop was a blast! Our four participants worked together to make six bricks. First, we assembled the wooden molds, screwing the sides together. Then we painted the insides of the molds with olive oil so the bricks would be easy to release once dry. As we mixed our cement, we added some mortar colouring to make each brick a different colour. Finally, we were ready to pour the cement into our molds. Once the cement dries, we can pop the bricks out of the molds and they'll be ready to use!

Join us on Saturday, October 27 from 2-4 p.m. for our woodworking workshop.

Saturday, October 13: Bricklaying

Isaac and Mega hosted the first-ever Creative Children's Workshop at the Artel in downtown Kingston. It was small but fun, with two creative children getting their hands into the craft of bricklaying as they built a small wall right inside the Artel.


Isaac shows how to hand-mix the mud that will cement the bricks together:


Meanwhile,Darragh discovers there's an easier way:




Laying the bricks:






Yasmine gets some more bricks for the wall out of the wheelbarrow...


...and the wall slowly takes shape:





Rafaela, one of the Artel's resident artists tries her hand at bricklaying, too:




Isaac gets ready to show the kids how to "point," or fill in all the spaces between the bricks:








It's not all work:


While Isaac finds time to sip a coffee, there's lots of time for plain old fun and games, too!







Meanwhile, Mega is the calm eye of the storm; she just lets it all happen around her...



A closer look at the tools of the trade:




Join us on Sunday, October 21 for the next Creative Children's Workshop on making bricks!