Creative Space for Mothers - Create, Chat & a Cuppa

Create, Chat & a Cuppa - a weekly Creative Space for Mothers

An 8 week series of feel-good creative sessions for mothers. This is time and space for YOU. A little 'creative escape' in your week for some simple, fun, mindful creative stuff. Along with lots of relaxed chat, a cuppa and even some chocolate too!

Open to all mothers (bring babies of any age, children along or come solo) and pregnant folk too.

Each week through simple, fun, mindful & creative exercises we'll explore how being simply absorbed in something creative can have that feel-good effect, boost wellbeing and just give you some time and space for YOU. This is all about being absorbed in something that's for you (not your baby or child for once!)  and finding a little pocket of calm within the stress and busyness of motherhood or pregnancy - all in a really relaxed, fun and welcoming space.

Absolutely no experience is needed - if you can hold a pencil then you are welcome and will have a fab time and benefit from this creative space - honestly!. We focus on the process (not the outcome), and on being together with other mothers in relaxed, friendly and supportive space.

Think of it as a little 'creative escape' for mothers each week. A space to be inspired, do something different from the day-to-day, and have an afternoon a week that will help you feel good & uplifted. Where you’ll get to be creative for the fun of it. 

We'll be doing feel-good, simple mindful and creative stuff (we'll do something different each week - collaging, doodling, colouring, list poems and lots more) that will get you out of the busyness of your mind. All of it can be done with a baby feeding, or in a sling, or sleeping in a pram/pushchair or wriggling on the floor. 

Plus there will be a cuppa, biscuits and chocolate for you throughout the class to keep you going too!

Join us for a little haven of relaxed creativity and space for you at this pivotal time. It really doesn't matter if you haven't picked up a pencil since school or don't think of yourself as ‘creative’ in any way. Don’t worry about that, we are all creative - as growing a human is the ultimate creative act! These sessions are all about letting go of labels and expectations, and just being absorbed in something for you, in creating something - with no expectations.

Everything provided for you - all of the creative materials each week, plus copious tea/coffee, biscuits & chocolate too. 

WHAT WE’LL DO…

Each week there will be a different simple creative activity for you, with all materials provided. Something that can be done whilst your baby sits on your lap, snuggles in the sling, has a feed or snoozes in the pram, or wriggles around on a blanket on the floor.

 It will be fun, welcoming and inclusive to all.

This 1.5 hour long session is an opportunity to do something for you, to have a chat with other local mothers and let your mind wander whilst
you do something with your hands. So much of your day as a new mother is spent looking after your baby/child, so let this class be a
weekly chance to carve out time to focus on something else and spark your creativity.

We'll do something different each week, working with different materials and techniques - from watercolour pencils, to felt tips, to hi lighter pens, to stickers, to oil pastels to old magazines to collage with. As we create we'll chat and show our babies/children what we are doing but this class is aimed at the mothers (for a change!). So do feel free to bring along toys to keep your little one occupied.

All materials are included for you. You'll get your own lovely hard-backed sketch book to create in each week and keep.

WHERE IT'S HELD...

TUESDAYS // 1pm to 2.30pm // at The Poppleton Centre, Upper Poppleton, York YO26 6JT

Held at the Poppleton Centre which is very baby and child friendly. Free parking in their own large car park right outside, there's plenty of space
for prams/pushchairs and to put down a blanket on the floor for your baby to roll around on.

There's also a brilliant on-site cafe that's baby/child friendly too, so before or after the class you can head to the cafe if you want for lunch or to chat some more with the other mothers!

Just getting out of the house with a small baby is an achievement in my book. So do not worry about being 'late', and also we don't mind if your little one is being grumpy or loud - that's just how they are sometimes. Come as you are, you don't have to have showered or washed your hear - we get it! 


Plus you’ll have time to chat and connect with other local pregnant folk, mothers and birthing people in a supportive and relaxed space.

WHO IS IT FOR?

All classes are suitable for anyone and everyone who is pregnant now or is a mother

You can attend in pregnancy at anytime, or after you babies birth anytime afterwards (as soon as you are ready to leave the house, or if you child is no longer a baby!). Babes in arms are very welcome to come along - of course. As are other children - but please bring toys etc to keep them happy (the activities are not themselves for children to take part in). 

We've had pregnancy folks, babies a few weeks old, and children a few years old - and every age in between! All welcome

The DATES…

Tuesdays: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th September and 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th October 2023

COST…

Session are booked by the block/term, so the price is £72 for the 8 sessions. Which is just £9 per 90 minute class.

This includes all art materials, a sketch book for you, and a cuppas, biscuits and chocolate to keep you going too!

There will also be an optional private online Facebook community created too, so you can connect with the others on your sessions between sessions and afterwards too if you want to.

If cost is a barrier to attendance then let me know as I will be offering a number of subsidised places too.

Any questions?

Please drop me an email,  susan@formodernmothers.com  (no question is ever too silly!)

This programme of sessions is in partnership with the brilliant Maternal Journal, and we’ll use many of their creative activities as a basis for the sessions.

*These sessions are an inclusive and safe space for anyone who has experienced pregnancy, given birth, identifies as a mother or as a woman or non-binary carer. I use the term ‘mother’ to mean all of those things.

Terms & Conditions - The boring small print!

Please note that payment is non-refundable. In the rare event that any of the sessions have to be cancelled or rescheduled, refunds or course transfer will be offered to you. If you can no longer attend the sessions after booking, you can contact me and I will try my best to fill your place for you. But of course I do not know whether that will happen or not.

Sessions missed CANNOT be carried forward to future dates, they are only for the dates booked.