Craft Classes in Montreal
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 Montreal
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 Montreal.
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.
In Montreal most immigrant children are schooled in French by law, so an Indian family here is often raising a child in French at school, English at work and an Indian language at home. Parents tell us an English-medium class that ties the scriptures back to their own family language is the piece that is otherwise missing.
Real technique — scoring, folding, joining and finishing
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 Montreal
Live classes on ET, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 6:30 to 8:00 PM Eastern and Saturday morning Eastern, shared with Toronto and Ottawa.
Parc-Extension, the West Island and Laval are where most Montreal Indian families live.
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 ET. Weekday 6:30 to 8:00 PM Eastern and Saturday morning Eastern, shared with Toronto and Ottawa..
“Living in California, we worried our kids would lose their roots. The online Shloka and Gita classes changed that. They chant every morning now, and understand what the words mean.”
Craft Classes in Montreal, FAQs
Paper, card, scissors, glue, and air-dry clay for one module. Everything is chosen to be available in Montreal and inexpensive — usually under CAD 800 for a full term, and the list goes out before the first class.
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