Magpie Makes

04/02/2025

Meet Karen, our superstar cooking teacher 👋
She’s been on the Magpie team for over 4 years, bringing her cooking expertise to children in our holiday cooking camps and birthday parties. Karen has heaps of patience and everyone always leaves the studio with lots of new culinary skills to try at home.
Join her this half term to learn how to make stir fry rice, summer rolls and teriyaki skewers 😋

22/01/2025

Would you like to come and write a story with help from the very inspiring and experienced teacher Laura Miller
We’re going to be focusing on suspense and drama in our creative writing workshop on Monday of half term - all brought to life by the main character who is a cat.
I’ll be helping with front cover illustrations for your final project that you can take home and read to your family.

Imagination, storytelling and illustration all wrapped up in one!

09/01/2025

Book your Spring Birthday Party now 🥳

It’s lots of fun having a creative party at the Magpie Studio. You can choose your favourite activity from all the options on our website, book the date in with Suzie, then invite your friends to enjoy a calm and relaxed crafty party, you’ll remember for years to come 🎉

Just pop over to our website or email [email protected] to talk through your perfect birthday party 🎈

05/01/2025

If you’re busy packing your school bag, polishing your shoes and getting ready for tomorrow’s return to school then, we see you, we are doing the same. We’re testing our pens, sharpening our pencils and making sure all our sewing threads aren’t tangled!
We’ve got some gorgeous projects we’re excited to share with you in the next few weeks… scroll for a sneaky peek 👀

14/12/2024

Last night was a chance to toast our incredible team! We had a fantastic feast at laughed, chatted and were genuinely merry magpies.

It’s been a brilliant 10th birthday year with successes and challenges along the way - for anyone who runs a small business will know it’s never without its twists and turns - but the best team have helped us navigate through.

We’ve dropped down to 1 studio requiring some serious flexibility in our working environment, we’ve lost some core team members but gained some fabulous new ones, there was a bereavement to overcome and more events to coordinate than ever. We’re incredibly proud to have taught over 1300 children this year across our clubs, camps and parties… and it’s a total team effort.

Thank you to all of you who have been part of our year we’re already excited to see what 2025 brings! X

09/12/2024

Thanks to the awesome head teacher at Thames Ditton Infants school who invited us to lead assembly today. Our message was clear - all children are artists!
And thank you also to our team of willing Magpies who helped us by talking clearly and with great confidence (despite it being Monday morning and you’d had no practice) and our artists who joined in our giant rainbow painting! 🌈

28/10/2024

This morning the studio was eerily quiet while cast her magic around and the children focused on learning how to use brush lettering pens. Not long until we heard squeals of delight as colours were blended and beautiful Halloween themed artworks created.
What a lovely session!
Thank you so much Jen - give her a follow for masses of inspiration and wonderful Christmas present ideas

29/09/2024

Let Magpie Makes take the hassle out of hosting - choose a party from our activity menu! 🥳�By partnering with us, you can eliminate the stress of planning and organising your party. Our experienced team will handle the logistics for you, including providing expert party hosts and a fun and well organised event which celebrates your child’s creativity.

Choose one of these eight activities, contact Suzie to discuss the date and we hope on the day you’ll have fun watching the children, joining in and taking lots of photos of their special day!

If you have any questions or want to discuss a date, send Suzie a message [email protected] 🎉

27/05/2024

This is so wonderful 💕 Thank you About Thames Ditton 🥰

09/04/2024

We’re finalists in the Best Childrens Business category of the Surrey Muddy Stilettos awards! We’re so proud to be amongst some other lovely local businesses and super grateful to everyone who nominated us and have voted so far.

If you’d like to vote for us please follow the link in our bio or in stories - all your support comes with huge thanks 💛

Kerry & Suzie x

07/04/2024

Our sewing clubs have loved this project and they’re all now proudly taken home. You can see if you scroll through some of the beautiful details the kids have managed to achieve…can you spot the elephant who’s sewn a sneaky snack?

Well done sewing team! We’re excited to show you next term’s project! 👏

05/04/2024

We’re finalists in the Best Childrens Business category of the Surrey Muddy Stilettos awards! We’re so proud to be amongst some other lovely local businesses and super grateful to everyone who nominated us and have voted so far.

If you’d like to vote for us please follow this link - all your support comes with huge thanks 💛

Kerry & Suzie x

https://surrey.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/vote/

13/03/2024

These friendly frogs jumped out of our infant art clubs last week! 🐸
After two sessions of experimenting with paints, oil pastels, cutting various shapes with scissors and adding details then layering it all together, these superb frogs made us smile and we hope you love them too 💚

07/02/2024

This half term our sewing clubs have been focusing on embroidery with an eye for detail. Please do scroll through and bask in the joy of their beautiful ideas!
Our washing line project has really sparked some fantastic work from these sewing super stars (all years 3-6 except image 1 which is a teacher example)

We love the mindfulness of these clubs particularly as this week is children’s mental health week 🙌

14/01/2024

A great opportunity at Royal Academy of Arts for our budding artists... 🎨

The Young Artists' Summer Show is an open submission exhibition, taking place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy, that recognises talented young artists at primary and secondary school level.