Holiday Crafting

Here’s a hands-on way to celebrate the season and create thoughtful gifts, too.

Spectrum Art Gallery, Centerbrook: Holiday wreath design workshop on 12/3: Create your own 30” live wreath to display proudly this season with landscape designer, Tracy McMorran. A wide variety of freshly picked greenery is available. Here’s

the wreath workshop.

Best Buds Flower Farm, Lyme: Thanksgiving pumpkin. centerpiece on 11/16, Holiday Wreath Date Night on 12/8 and Holiday Wreath workshop, various dates in December. Sign up here.

Brot Workshop, Killingworth: German Holiday Classics, 12/4 & 12/10: Learn how to make some of Germany’s most famous cookie recipes passed down from generations. In this hands-on workshop you will be rolling dough, shaping dough, decorating, and baking cookies of various types. At the end of the workshop, you will take home a basket of your freshly baked cookies to share with friends and family. See more here.

Ocean House offers lots of family friendly festivities including cookie and cupcake decorating on 12/3 and Gingerbread House workshop on 12/15: Sign up here. Weekend Kitchen, Essex: Holiday Pie-Making (and dinner) on 11/19: Chicken pot pie, apple streusel pie, best ever pecan pie, mixed berry with lattice crust, and seasonal salad. Sign up here.

SOMA in Deep River offers workshops in pine cone ornaments, watercolor, candle making, paint and sip and more throughout November and December: See them here.

Guilford Art Center Offers Paper Quilling for the Holidays on 11/19: Create special holiday greeting cards, ornaments and gift tags. Sign up here.

Gather Intentional Living from Branford offers a variety of online workshops: how to make a pumpkin spice latte board, naked floral cake, and hot chocolate dessert board and, of course, the ubiquitous charcuterie boards. Private parties available, too. See

workshops here.

Madison Wool: Learn to knit socks or crochet a scarf and handwarmers, various dates: Learn

more here.