Create Your Own Festive Soaps
Create Your Own Festive Soaps
Festive Soaps
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Festive Soaps

Create Your Own Festive Soaps.

Join their fun laboratory for a cosy festive melt and pour soap making workshop.
 
Perfect for beginners, crafters, or anyone looking to make thoughtful handmade gifts this season.
 
What to expect:
 
Craft three beautiful soaps using high-quality clear and white glycerin soap bases.
 
In this 2.5 hour festive workshop, you’ll learn the melt-and-pour method, explore layering, embedding, swirling techniques, and leave with 4 custom soaps and a set of brand-new creative skills.
 
They’ll provide everything you need, from rich, warming essential oils to natural botanicals and all soap-making materials.
 
Create beautiful packaging for your soaps and enjoy the festive spirit of this workshop. 
 
Festive Silicone Molds:
 
Shape your soaps into charming Christmas trees and snowflakes.
 
Natural Botanical Embeds:
 
Decorate your creations with lavender buds, calendula petals, cornflower and festive mini-soap embeds.
 
Wintery Essential Oils:
 
Infuse your soaps with the scents of the season, such as pine, sweet orange, clove, and cinnamon.
 
What you’ll take home:
 
Handcrafted soaps, perfect for gifting or personal indulgence and the skills and knowledge to continue soap making at home.
 
What to bring/ wear:
 
All materials provided.
 
Benefits:
 
Melt-and-pour soap making engages multiple senses: visual creativity (colour and design), touch and texture fragrance.
 
This sensory involvement can encourage mindfulness, which is associated with improved emotional regulation and reduced stress.
 
Who is your tutor:
 
Kat, founder of Fun Laboratory Club is a woman on a mission, having discovered a passion for creativity and connecting individuals and families through hosting melt-and-pour soap making workshops three years ago.
 
With experience and passion for hosting and designing soap making workshops, Kat aims to create engaging, uplifting spaces where people can explore, create, and feel proud of what they make.
 
Realising early on that soap making is more than just a craft; it encourages meaningful participation, boosts self-esteem, and supports positive wellbeing.
 
The instant results bring so much joy and excitement, giving all a real sense of accomplishment and making every session a truly rewarding experience.
 
Time: 10am – 12.30pm
The base 

The Base opened on Friday 8 February 2019 in partnership with Greenham Trust and the Corn Exchange.

It became a registered charity in 2022 (charity no. 1199188) and is dedicated to improving access to the arts whilst bringing quality visual art to the local area.

Situated in a purpose-built arts and craft building, The Base’s £1.7M venue was designed by Sutton Griffin Architects of Newbury.

The space comprises of a 110sqm gallery, artists’ studios and a workshop for participatory classes.

There is also a café facility managed by Honesty Café group.

Striving to be a flagship visual arts venue in West Berkshire, The Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 54 exhibition launched the inaugural gallery programme.

Displaying some of the best wildlife photography from across the globe, the exhibition comprised of 100 photograph across 7 categories and is renowned for attracting millions of visitors around the world every year. 

The Base is also home to 8 visual artists and craft makers as well as Open Studios West Berkshire and North Hampshire, who present their annual INSIGHT exhibition at The Base every May. 

GALLERY OPENING TIMES

The gallery opening times and days vary depending on which exhibition is being presented.

Please check the exhibition pages before you travel to ensure the gallery will be open.

Purchase a Base Pass and gain unlimited access to their Gallery for 12 months – find out more here

Honesty Cafe is open Monday to Saturday from 8am to 5pm and 9.30am – 4pm on Sundays.

From a fully accessible building to relaxed visit days, they are dedicated to making their venue and exhibitions accessible for everyone.

Please visit the Accessibility page for information about the facilities at The Base.

Tickets for all exhibitions and workshops at The Base can be booked via the Corn Exchange Box Office: 01635 522733

Their phone lines are open daily: Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm (or until 7pm if there is a performance on), Sunday, 10.30am to 4pm

The Base Greenham, Greenham Business Park, Communications Road, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 6HN

Please contact admin@thebasegreenham.co.u

Base Pass
 

Throughout the year, The Base attracts high quality touring exhibitions from the likes of the Natural History Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and more.

They know that sometimes one visit just isn’t enough to take in all the talent on show.

So they bring you the Base Pass, enabling you to come and go as often as you like to each exhibition for a whole year!

Unlimited entry to The Base Gallery for 12 months*

10% off at Honesty owned cafes

PLEASE NOTE: Your new Base Pass card will be ready to collect on your next visit to The Base!

 Honesty cafe

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