Are you ready to design, create and destroy using an ancient building material called Cob? It’s Sustainability at it’s finest as this is a material that you can use again and again and again. All materials are locally sourced and has been tested for child safety.
Check out the different options of Earth children workshops that you can book for your community! These workshops can be tailored to your event or venue needs. Send me an email if you have any questions: hello@serenekitchen.art
Workshop options
Walk-in
- Suitable for 50-100 over a 2-3 hour period
- General audience
- 10-15 min activities
- comes with prompts for self play
- collaborative experiences
Interactive Exhibitions
- Suitable for 200-500 participants
- General audience
- touch and go interactions
- comes with prompts for self play
- collaborative experiences
Guided
- 15 children and their adults in one session
- Tailored for 3-5s and 5-8s
- 1 hour runtime
- sibling support activities
- collaborative experiences
Mini Cob house
- 15 children and their adults in one session
- Tailored for 9-12s and adults
- 1 hour runtime
- sibling support activities
- collaborative experiences
Choice of Workshop Muddiness levels
Dry
Combination
MUDDY
Past Workshops
Photo by James Henry
Reset Festival @ Fed Square 2025
Earth Children was part of the Reset Festival Program at Fed Square in September 2025. It was presented to general audience during the school holidays using a format of scheduled drop-in workshops, interactive and collaborative art installations. There were muddy, combination and dry workstations to cater to everyone preference. It received around 600+ attendees!
New Ideas Lab 2021-22
Earth Children was part of the New Ideas Lab 2021-22 program at Artplay. It was presented to 5-8 year old audience online, in-person and had an interactive exhibition.
Photo by Laura Lethlean, City of Hobson Bay
Cultural Diversity Week 2023
This Earth Children workshop was at full capacity with children ranging from 2 – 12 years old making cob from scratch at Seabrook Community Centre.
Photo by Julian Meehan, courtesy of the National Sustainable Living Festival
National Sustainable Living Festival 2023
Earth Children was presented to 3-5s and 5-8s in an in-person workshop at Artplay in conjuction with National Sustainable living festival . The picture above depicts a collaborative exercise where they have to buld the biggest earthworm!
Testimonials
I really appreciated how it encouraged children and adults to engage and collaborate
Artplay participant
Fabulous!!!
Artplay participant
Great experience, chance for messy play and being sustainable
Art play participant
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