Past Workshops

Spring Camp 2022: RISOllage Bookcover

Diego Mendoza

Discover the Tashkeel's RISO printer and use it to make your very own notebook cover!

Spring Camp 2022: Full Week (8 - 11 years)

Join a week full of creative activities for 8 - 11 and 12 - 16 year olds with our Tashkeel Spring Camp! Exploring the theme of story-telling, the participants are going to explore how to weave stories...

Young Creatives Club: Carpet Making

Diego Mendoza

Join us in making your own carpet! Using the basic principles of weaving, the participants will use a mini-loom to create a mini-carpet. With lots of colourful yarn to play around with, we will explor...

Young Creatives Club: Let's go fly a kite!

Diego Mendoza

Let's go fly a kite! Our kite-makers will decorate and personalise their colourful creations using readily available materials. Once our kites will be ready, we'll take them to our garden to fly them ...

Young Creatives Club: Clay Pictionary

Diego Mendoza

Ever played pictionary with clay? This workshop will engage the participants in a game of Pictionary, but with a twist! The workshop will push the boundaries of what 'drawing in 3D' can be by blurring...

Young Creatives Club: Carving Colour

Diego Mendoza

Create colourful and unique postcards using only wax crayons and black ink! With the 'wax crayon etching method', our young artists will first draw using crayons on paper, then cover it with black ink...

Winter Camp 2021: Puzzled Nature (8 - 11 years)

Areen Hassan

Learn about textile design using textures and shapes from the Tashkeel garden! Experiment with the plants and flowers as both inspiration and materials to create your unique tile. Create printed patte...

Afterschool Arts Club: UAE Greeting Cards

Diego Mendoza

To celebrate the country's Golden Jubilee, our young artists will create greeting cards for the UAE.

Afterschool Arts Club: Shibori Dyeing

Diego Mendoza

Discover and experiment with a dyeing technique known as the 'traditional Japanese tie-dye'.

Afterschool Arts Club: Paper Looms

Diego Mendoza

Looking closely at traditional textiles from the UAE, our young artists will learn how to create different woven patterns.

Afterschool Arts Club: Paper Maché Party! (Sustainability Week Edition)

Diego Mendoza

As part of our Sustainability Week, this Afterschool Arts Club workshop will introduce our young artists to the vast and colourful world of paper maché.

Precious Plastics

Hernan Torres

The workshop will explore how specialised machines can be utilised to create useful products out of waste. Through live demonstrations and hands-on exercises, participants will learn about how this pr...