River Market is encouraging families to get crafty this summer.
The market is running its second Summer of Play, with a series of free workshops at businesses around the market, designed to get people creating. This year’s edition is themed Tiny Crafts – a series of free short crafting activities that can be done in 15 minutes or less.
You can craft a postcard at Craft Café, create pompoms at Cosy Yarns to turn into a bookmark, key chain or backpack decoration, choose scent to make a tiny soap or tiny button at Jolene’s Natural Soaps, write a line of verse (in 80 characters or less) at Great Wall Tea, or write a message to the fairies at The Wylde Wood Collective – and wait for a reply.
"Tiny Crafts was inspired by simple and fun activities that invite people to experiment with different materials and engage in the process of making," said Leslie Shieh, the program's lead, in a press release. "After trying these crafts, if there's a particularly enjoyable one, it can always be explored further."
For instance, anyone who liked the pompom creation might want to try knitting; those who liked the short poem might try their hand at a longer one and enter it into the PS New West Poetry Contest.
Each of the activities can be done at any time when the shop offering it is open. Check out www.rivermarket.ca for all the details.
