The teacher was lovely and friendly and we loved making the masks. There was a great variety of resources and the teacher shared lots of brilliant ideas.

We've had the most incredible afternoon at Hobbycraft Stratford Upon Avon. My five year old daughter and I attended the Clay Sea Creatures Workshop. Laurrie who ran our session was absolutely lovely. She's got such a kind, warm manner to her that she puts everyone at ease straight away.

The clay air drying dough is such a wonderful material for children to use (and adults as I thoroughly enjoyed using it to). You could very much take the workshop at your own pace but Laurrie was on hand to offer guidance and gentle encouragement to try different things throughout.

It was lovely to see the children picking up ideas from each other. One of the other girls made a fab mermaid and my daughter was raving about it on the way home and saying how she wanted to try and do the same things at home with a patterned mermaid tail.

My daughter has some medical needs which can make using traditional doughs or stiff plasticines very challenging for her over an extended period of time. This dough was perfect for her needs and she was able to actively participate for the whole session without tiring.

We've already booked onto another Hobbycraft workshop next week and one for over the October holidays. We'd also absolutely consider doing the exact same workshop as well. My little one said it was amazing and she practically skipped off home after we'd purchased some more dough to work with at home (you do get to keep your creatures and any unused dough - but we loved it so much we wanted more).

Laurrie thank you so much for the session it is easily the best thing we've done so far this holiday and we hope to see you again at a further workshop. All the store staff were really friendly. I'm sorry I don't know the name of the lady who came and took photos of the children's creations at the end. It really made my daughter feel special someone wanting to take a snap of what she'd made.

Oh - almost completely forgot to mention that this session was superb value for money at only £5

Final words from the little un - 'I absolutely LOVED it!'

Felicity is a great teacher explaining the different ways to do brush lettering. The pack included everything we needed to have a go at learning ourselves and to takeaway for more practice. Exeter store is in an easy location.

Emma was an amazing tutor. It was so therapeutic watching her do her brush lettering. I started off the session finding it quite tricky to apply the right pressure and moved my hand in the right way. By the end of the hour I was so much more comfortable and you could see a real progression in where I began and what I could do at the end of the workshop. Brilliant, I'd highly recommend. Thank you Emma.