Morning events, Visual art, Workshops

Make a wee silver trinket box and decorate it with embossed silver and coloured stones.

Take along a picture of your favourite celebrity and make a silver photo frame so you can worship them on your wall.

Drawing classes with experienced tutors from the Edinburgh Drawing School.

Make your own friendship bracelet, perhaps as a gift, using silver beads, pearls and gems.

Over 100 artists offer their work for sale in Maidenhead town centre.

Spend a peaceful week drawing or painting with like-minded artists, inspired by the surrounding countryside. Price includes materials, lunch and refreshments.

Interactive sculptural workshop for over 16s.

Got an idea to compete with Ikea? Create your own flat-packed product to take home in this two-day workshop with artist/designer Fraser Ross. Ages 15+.

Learn how to sculpt a feathery little friend from artist Robin Fox (who is more loving of birds than his name makes it sound).

A course for botanical illustrators who've already achieved a foundation level of skills. Students work at their own pace, having access to the RBGE's collection and the expertise of the tutor. Booking is essential.

Artist Rowena Comrie leads a masterclass in working with fields of colour, so as to gain a greater understanding of abstraction. The first day focuses on watercolours, the second day on oils. Booking is essential.

A course in illustrating complex forms like pine cones and seeds. Not suitable for beginners. Booking is essential.

Design, build and test a moving lighting object with designer Fraser Ross in this workshop based on his project A Breath of Life. Participants take their finished work home. Ages 15+. Wear old clothes and bring a packed lunch.

Make your own quaich, a traditional Scots drinking bowl.

Children's workshop in which you can design your own flower and then create it in clay. Ages 8–10.

An 11-week course enabling you to build your skills in oils, watercolour or acrylics. You can take either morning or afternoon sessions (half day), or book both (full day). Tutor is Michael Durning of the Paisley Arts Institute. Booking is essential.

An 11-week course designed to help you develop your skills in watercolour landscape painting, using a combination of artist demonstration and individual guidance. Lessons are held in the studio but where conditions are suitable, students will have a chance to work outside in the gardens.

Make your own goblet and adorn it with metallic paints and precious jewels.

Once upon a time, Edinburgh and the Canongate were two different towns with separate silver hallmarkings. Make your own hallmark using traditional symbols or perhaps something more contemporary.

A course designed to help you develop basic skills in drawing and painting, such as line, scale, proportion and colour. Materials and equipment are provided. Ages 16+ only.

Learn how to make a decorative panel to adorn a bag or for use as a wall hanging. Suitable for any skill level, and tutor Alison will show 'free machining' if you're new to it. Take a sewing machine with darning foot and some coloured and metallic threads. Lunch is included.

A masterclass in watercolour botanical illustration, focusing on using subtle mixes to render pale roses. Not suitable for beginners. Booking is essential.

Take inspiration from the silver collection to make your own hanging decoration. Use a range of craft materials to create something based on the theme of an opulent afternoon tea party.

Make something beautiful out of broken bits and bobs at this one-day large tile mosaic masterclass, led by an experience tutor. Materials provided, but bring along your own shells, bottle tops, buttons and broken crockery to included in your mosaic.