Welcome to “Build Your Own Party” with Iris & Dora
Just choose your party activities from our choices below: (noting duration of each activity)
You can choose as many activities as you like, to create your very own bespoke party. We can even follow a particular theme if you have a preference.
Aprons are provided but we still recommend that you tell your guests to come dressed for mess.
We charge a studio fee of £7.50 per guest for a single activity, but will waive the studio fee for parties of two or more activities or for after school parties.
If you would like to bring along party food then we will be happy to let you use our party room for an additional 30 minutes at no extra charge, subject to availability.
Creative Dress-up
- Duration 30 minutes
- £8 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora, Make+Made
- Most enjoyed by guests aged 7 and under.
Depending upon the chosen theme we can make crowns, hats, wings or wands out of paper or card and decorate them with tissue paper, paint, crayons, and sparkly confetti.
Wooden Fairy Doors
- Duration 30 minutes
- £9 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora, Make+Made
- Suitable for any age, most enjoyed by 9s and under.
Paint, decorate, glue and stick a beautiful wooden fairy door for your room.
Pottery Painting with Acrylic
- Duration 30 minutes
- Prices start at £9 for Blue Zone
- £11.50 for Red Zone
- £14 for Yellow Zone
- Suitable for any age, most enjoyed by 9s and under.
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora, Make+Made
- Enjoyed by any age.
We will be using acrylic paint so that your guests creations can be taken home on the same day (no need for a goody bag)
Block Printing with Lego
- Duration 45 minutes
- £10 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 10 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 10 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora, Make+Made
- Most enjoyed by over 8’s
Using lego pieces, we will create blocks and print them using our printing press.
Clay Play
- Duration Under 7’s up to 45 minutes
- Duration Over 7’s, 45 minutes – 1 hour
- £10 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for any age.
Using airdry clay and acrylic paint, these colourful creations do not need to be fired and can be taken home the same day. (Options include any one of the following fairy/monster doors, sharks, trinket bowls, bobble heads.)
Mixed Media Mosaic
- Duration Under 7’s up to 30 minutes
- Duration Over 7’s, 30 – 45 minutes
- £14 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora, Make+Made
- Most enjoyed by under 8’s
Mixed media mosaicing, bright, tactile, gluey sticky colourful fun!
Jewellery Making
- Duration 30 minutes
- £16 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 14 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 14 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for ages 9 and over
Join us in the studio and make a memory wire bracelet. We have a huge selection of charms and beads so you can design your bracelet to suit your own style.
Paint-a-long
- Duration 45 minutes
- £16 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 14 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 14 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for ages 9 and over.
Pottery Painting in Glaze
- Duration 45 minutes
- £16.50 for Blue Zone
- £19 for Red Zone
- £21.50 for Yellow Zone
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests on weekends and school holidays.
- available at: Iris & Dora, Make+Made
- Suitable for any age.
Slime Making
- Duration Under 7’s up to 45 minutes
- Duration Over 7’s, 45 minutes – 1 hour
- £18 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests for school holidays and weekends.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 for after school parties. Suitable for any age.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for guests aged 8 and over
Make Your Own Bath Bombs
- Duration 45 Minutes
- £20 per guest
- Minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 guests during school holidays.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for ages 9 and over
Make your own fizzingly fantastic bath bombs, using natural ingredients and essential oils. Each guest will choose their own colours and fragrance and will come away with two fabulously fizzy bath bombs. (paraben and sls free)
Tie Dyeing
- Duration 30 minutes
- £20 per guest
- Minimum of 10 maximum of 14 guests for school holidays and weekends
- Minimum of 6 maximum of 14 guests for afterschool parties.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for 9s and over.
Tie-dye a t-shirt or tote bag in this popular class. Choose your design and your colours. Will need to be washed at home the following day.
Pottery Wheel Taster
- Acrylic and airdry clay
- £22.50 per guest
- Duration 45 minutes – 1 hour
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties only.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for 9s and over
- PLEASE NOTE – Open toed shoes must not be worn and long hair must be tied back.
- Earthenware clay, firing and glazing
- £30 per guest
- Duration 1 hour.
- Minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 guests for after school parties only.
- available at: Iris & Dora only
- Suitable for 9s and over
- PLEASE NOTE – Open toed shoes must not be worn and long hair must be tied back.
Come and have a go at throwing a pot on the pottery wheel. The experience includes a taster session where you learn to ‘throw’ a pot from a pre-centred ball of clay with help from one of our potters, this usually takes up 10 minutes before you move on to decorate and paint your piece
The pottery pieces created during the party can be made using air dry clay and painted in acrylic. This allows all the guests to take their piece home on the day. These pots will not be food safe but they make excellent trinket dishes.
Alternatively you can choose to throw in earthenware clay which you can glaze during the party and will be fired in the kiln ready to collect in 4-6 weeks. These pots will be food and dishwasher safe.
We run parties on weekdays, after school and on Saturdays
Parties that begin after 4pm are considered evening parties and are subject to an additional studio fee of £7.50 per guest.
Due to space limitations in our party room, we can only accommodate a maximum of 3 adult helpers.
We ask that you remove any rubbish that you create, we can take care of it for you for a charge of £25.