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Free festive activities to get creative at Keighley Market

Keighley Market is giving people the chance to get creative and crafty in free festive activities over the coming weeks.

Visitors to Keighley Market on Saturday, 9 December can have a go at making their own festive framed picture. Artist Naseem Darbey and Keighley Creative are running a workshop to show how to make a festive collage frame. Participants and then do a still life drawing from seasonal items to add to the frame.

The family-friendly workshop will be a free drop-in session, suitable for children of all ages and abilities, running from 11am to 3pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Artist Emily Parkin and Keighley Creative will be at Keighley Market on Saturday, 16 December with a workshop on making Scandinavian-style corn decorations. Participants can make corn hearts, hoops or angels by plaiting stalks of wheat. There will also be a chance to decorate a wooden bauble or make paper snowflake tree decorations. This is again suitable for children of all ages and abilities, but all children must be accompanied by an adult.

Also at Keighley Market, there will be free face painting and Santa on 16 and 23 December. Local children’s author Simon Wilkinson is coming to the market on 9 and 16 December to read his book The Mammoth and the Moonstick.

Cllr Alex Ross-Shaw, Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, Planning and Transport, said: “There’s plenty here to keep families entertained and create some unique Christmas gifts or decorations. We hope people will also use this opportunity to visit our markets.”

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