Craft Classes in France
Making things with their hands, not just pictures
A drawing either looks right or it does not. A made object also has to stand up, hold together and survive being carried to school, which is a far more honest teacher. Craft gives a child a result they can hold, and a failure whose cause they can see immediately.
Enquire about classes in France
Add the student’s name and your number, then continue on WhatsApp or call us. We’ll come back with the next available slot for France.
We usually reply within the hour
Making things with their hands, not just pictures
Painting and drawing train the eye on a flat surface. Craft trains the hands in three dimensions — scoring before folding, letting glue set, judging where a structure will give. Children who find drawing frustrating often thrive here, because the feedback is physical and instant rather than a matter of opinion.
France has a connection to India most countries do not: Puducherry was French until 1954, and a good number of Franco-Indian families, largely Tamil, have lived between the two countries since. They sit alongside a newer community of professionals in Paris, Toulouse and Lyon, and for both the children are usually being schooled entirely in French.
Fine motor control built through making, not through worksheets
Everyday materials, so nothing is unavailable when they want to make more
Indian craft forms taught alongside general making
Something finished and holdable at the end of nearly every class
Batch timings for France
Live classes on CET, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 5:00 to 7:00 PM CET, which is 9:30 to 11:30 PM in India in winter and an hour earlier in summer, and Saturday mornings. Instruction is in English; mentors are used to children whose strongest school language is something else.
What your child walks away able to do
Confident use of scissors, adhesive, scoring and folding
The ability to plan a three-dimensional object before starting it
A body of finished pieces the child made unaided
Inside the craft classes curriculum
A few of the modules a year of craft classes covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Cut, Score, Fold
- 02Joining Things
- 03Paper Sculpture
- 04Festival Making
Prefer a room, paper and paint on a table?
Arts & Painting runs in person at our arts studio in Jayanagar, Bengaluru, and, like every class of ours, at our HSR Layout centre, 243, 16th Main Road, Sector 3, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 560102. Both use the same mentors and the same curriculum as the online batches. Families outside Bengaluru take the online batches, which cover the identical curriculum.
Three simple steps to begin
1. Tell us about your child
Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For craft classes that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to what they can already do.
2. Personal guidance from a mentor
A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.
3. Pick a slot that survives the school week
We place your child in a batch built for CET. Weekday 5:00 to 7:00 PM CET, which is 9:30 to 11:30 PM in India in winter and an hour earlier in summer, and Saturday mornings.
“The storytelling program transformed my shy son. Last month he confidently narrated a Panchatantra tale at his school assembly. The mentors are patient, warm and world-class.”
Craft Classes in France, FAQs
Paper, card, scissors, glue, and air-dry clay for one module. Everything is chosen to be available in France and inexpensive — usually under EUR 800 for a full term, and the list goes out before the first class.
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