Workshops
We offer a range of specialised workshops for all ages.
Explore acting, puppetry, theatre making and give your imagination free rein!
Current Workshops:
Adventure Tots
Join the wonderful adventurers on an expedition underwater, to an enchanted forest, a faraway jungle, or even outer space! A different adventure every week!
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Suitable for anyone aged 6 or younger (and their accompanying adult!)
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Cost: £5 per adult per session or £12 for all three (children go free)
Puppet Pets
Join us for a NEW workshop and make your own puppet pet. George and Halie, founders of A Wonderful Adventure are master puppeteers and they’ve agreed to lead a two part workshop. After you’ve created your puppet pet, you’ll learn how to bring it to life.
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Cost: £15 per child
(The fee includes all materials needed to make your puppet pet and light refreshments.)
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In the first session, you’ll make your own puppet pet with help from Halie and George. You can make any creature you can imagine. Is it a real creature, or a mythical being? You decide.
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In the second week, you learn how to puppeteer your puppet pet and give them personality. George and Halie show you how a few small movements can bring your puppet pet to life. Then you get to try and become a puppet master.
Drama Lab
Join George and Halie (aka the wonderful adventurers) in a fun-filled drama workshop full of games, activities and play! Learn storytelling, movement, voice and how to develop characters! Work on texts provided, or pieces you chose. Through weekly workshops, you can build your confidence, improvise and have fun!
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£10 per person
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Suitable for anyone aged 15 – 19
Specialised workshops we have created for businesses and personal use:
Plesiosaurus 200th Birthday Party: Crafting Creatures with Mary Anning
Happy Birthday, Plesiosaurus! Join Mary as she celebrates the 200th anniversary of discovering her Plesiosaurus! Mary will help everyone make their very own Plesiosaurus desk buddies in this fun arts and crafts workshop! Mary will tell us all about the creatures, where they came from, where they lived, what they ate and how they moved through the oceans. At the end you will have your very own plesiosaurus to take home!
Adventure Tots
Join the wonderful adventurers on an expedition underwater, to an enchanted forest, a faraway jungle, or even outer space! A different adventure every week!
The Railway Children Workshop
Join Bobbie and Perks as they tell you their story and help you embark your own railway adventure!
Curious Critters and how to Create Them
An interactive series of workshops where you will meet fascinating creatures from around the world both real and imagined. The wonderful adventurers will guide you on your journey where you will meet and then create your very own weird and wonderful beasts!
Zombie Survival
We will teach you everything you need to know about Zombies and how you can survive a Zombie Apocalypse! You never know: you may need this for the future! Especiallly now!!!
Drama Lab
Join George and Halie (aka the wonderful adventurers) in a fun-filled drama workshop full of games, activities and play! Learn storytelling, movement, voice and how to develop characters! Work on texts provided, or pieces you chose. Through weekly workshops, you can build your confidence, improvise and have fun!
Story Tots
Join The Wonderful Adventurers for an exciting storytelling adventure.
Toddler Time
Activities and workshops for Gambado, the UK’s ultimate indoor play and party centre!
Roaring Twenties
Create your own dinasaurs or dream up you very own!
Flower Making
Make your very own beautiful flowes and we will use them on stage in the set for our show of 'The Secret Garden' and then take them home so you can do your own show!
Curious Critters and how to Create Them
Join us in an interactive workshop where you will meet fascinating creatures from around the world (real and imagined!). The wonderful adventurers will guide you on your journey where you’ll meet and then create your very own weird and wonderful beasts!
Peter Pan Theatre Workshop
Have you ever wanted to be a pirate? A fairy? A lost boy, or even a crocodile? Come along to this unique drama workshop led by Wendy, Smee and Captain Hook and help them bring the story of Peter Pan to life!
The Steadfast Tin Soldier Workshop
Join the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Paper Ballerina as you create your own story of love and adventure!
Puppet Making
A series of puppet making workshops for OKIDO!
Oz Mask Making
Before you enter the Emerald City you will need your Oz Mask with green tinted lenses! Make your mask, and sit back and enjoy the show!