Our Children’s Room is a fun, free space for babies and toddlers to play with their parents and carers. The room is open to everyone during our public opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 10am – 3pm Saturday and Sunday: 10am – 2pm We’ve made a few changes : We’ll be rotating toys to help us […]
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Holiday Kids Art Workshops to celebrate our 10th Birthday!
Get creative this summer to celebrate The Mill’s 10th birthday! Join us for our series of free hands-on workshops for children aged 4 and over in our friendly community space, led by local artists. We’re running three workshops on Thursday’s during the school holidays, with a choice of two different times each day. Create your own party chameleon […]
Children’s Room Update
Sadly, the Children’s Room is currently closed until we can reopen it safely in line with the guidelines. Supporting local parents and young children is a priority for us, so we’re looking at how we can do that in other ways, and reopening the Children’s Room as soon as we’re able to do so. We’ll […]
The Kids Art Club online
We’ve taken our Kid’s Art Club online! Every Thursday we’ll share an activity you can do with simple materials from around the home on our social media. All the activities have been designed by our Kids Art Club volunteer Gemma Lawrence. We’d love to see you all get involved, get making and sharing your creations […]
A Mill Rainbow!
🌈 Help create the rainbow in our window at The Mill.🌈 We want to fill our front window with a rainbow made with colourful hands. Everyone can take part, here’s how: Draw round your hand on a piece of paper Cut it out Decorate it with one of the colours of the rainbow 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 Send […]
Creative Isolation
We’ve spotted lots of online creative challenges and group activities in the last few weeks. Here’s some that we’re running, as well as others by local Walthamstow creatives: Kids Art Club Every Thursday as part of #TheMillOnline A creative activity you can try (young or old) put together by Gemma from The Mill’s Thursday afternoon […]
Philosophy Penguin Presents… Philosophy for 3 & 4 year olds
Picture this: a group of three and four-year-olds challenging the world through words and maximising their freedom through independent critical thought. That’s exactly what ‘Philosophy Penguin Presents …’ offers; an opportunity for young children to discuss what they think, why they think what they do and how what they think differs from others. Neil Wilcock […]
Bringing ‘Grandad’s Island’ to life throughout the summer
We were delighted to welcome lots of families to ‘The Mill Shipyard’ during this summer’s Walthamstow Garden Party, to bring to life the picture book ‘Grandad’s Island’ by local author-illustrator Benji Davies. Children helped to create a colourful boat, inspired by the ship that transports Grandad and Syd on their adventure in the award winning […]
Our annual Halloween Party was a roaring success!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween event. It was very busy, and we hope you will agree, lots of fun! We raised over £400.00 for The Mill! Thank you to our volunteers who helped make the day spooktacular! There are more fantastic pictures on our Facebook page.
Meet George the Chameleon
Thank you for all the suggestions to name the new resident of our Children’s Room. The name picked out of the hat on Apple Day for our beautiful, gloriously coloured Chameleon is George! George was made over one weekend in the Summer holidays by about 50 children, parents and carers. Vanessa Brightwell, artist, designer and […]