Hen Parties

Looking for a totally memorable and boutique hen party experience?

Make pots on the potter’s wheel, create a collaborative clay sculpture and produce personalised arty-facts for the bride to be!

Our Potting Tent marquee is on the Pottery lawn. It’s a creative and beautifully decorated space with bunting, garlands and festoon lights. The perfect venue for your hen celebrations! Decked and heated for all seasons.

COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS

We’ll be asking you to arrive no earlier than 5 mins before your session starts.

We’ve set up the furniture and potter’s wheels to account for the 2m social distancing rule and will be observing social distancing through-out your session. We’ll be wearing perspex visors. If you’d prefer to wear a face mask please supply your own.

On arrival, you’ll be directed to a waiting area and asked to wash your hands. Your experience will commence once the previous participants have departed and we’ve had opportunity to clean tools and prepare your wheel(s)

Weather permitting, classes will take place outside on the lawn or in the ‘Potting Tent’ marquee.

Please bring your own apron and an old towel (sharing is fine). The clay doesn’t stain and washes out easily so alternatively, wearing old clothes is perfectly acceptable too, but please don’t forget the towel!

If for any reason you or anyone else from your household feels unwell on the day of your session, please do not attend. We can re-schedule your experience at a mutually agreeable time in the future.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Clay Modelling Projects

Pinch-pot sculpture: £20

a superb pottery frog hand modelled by a customer at eastnor pottery herefordshire

Create a hollow ball by joining two thumb-pots together. Mould, manipulate and sculpt your sphere into anything you like – vegetable, mineral or animal! Paint your fabulous creation with a kaleidoscope of under glaze colours.

Coil-pot creation: £30

Make a mug, jug or pencil pot by rolling long snakes of clay and coiling them around an upturned flower-pot. Smooth the coils together, add handles or modelled detail and then paint your vessel with coloured slip.

Potter’s wheel optional extra: £15

close up of clay covered hands on the potter's wheel at eastnor pottery

Add this to either of the two projects above and everybody in your group gets to make a pot on the potter’s wheel too.

Potter’s wheel projects

Potter’s wheel experience – regular £40

1.5 hr session. Sharing one potter’s wheel between two, take turns to throw some shapes!

Potter’s wheel experience – Deluxe £60

3 hr session. Create a collaborative commemorative pot with contributions from everyone in your group. Sharing one potter’s wheel between two, take turns to make pots and vessels. Turn your creations into mugs, jugs and decorative bowls by adding handles and motifs when resting from the wheel.

Potter’s wheel experience – Ultimate £110

Full day (10am – 4pm) Create a collaborative commemorative pot with contributions from everyone in your group. Sharing one potter’s wheel between two, take turns to make pots and vessels. Turn your creations into mugs, jugs and decorative bowls by adding handles and motifs when resting from the wheel. You will have the opportunity to paint your creations with coloured under glazes and explore other hand-building techniques.

All of the above include tuition, materials and firing. Finished work will be ready for collection from the Pottery approx. one month later. P+P can be arranged at cost. (£30 – £50 depending on weight of consignment)

Not quite got the ten?

Check out our potter’s wheel experiences for couples and small groups.

How to book

1) Choose one of the projects above.

2) Contact the Pottery to check availability and book your session. We are open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 4pm and have group start times of 10am and 2pm. Sundays and evenings may be available for large groups.

3) Once a date and time have been agreed, we require a non returnable £50 deposit to secure the booking. This can be deposited via BACS (Account no: 03830985 Sort code: 09-01-50) or by cheque (made payable to Eastnor Pottery and posted to Eastnor Pottery, Home Farm, Eastnor, Ledbury, Hfds, HR8 1RD) Once we have received your £50 deposit, we’ll email you confirmation. The balance of payment is required 7 days prior to your workshop.

Group booking FAQ’s

Clothes: The sessions are no-where near as mucky as you may at first think. However, the wearing of old clothes is advisable, or you may consider bringing your own aprons?

Food and drink: Although we are unable to provide food, many of our customers like to bring a picnic. This can be consumed either on the pottery lawn or in The Potting Tent marquee (once the clay has been tidied away.) Please check we have space available for picnics when you book.

Planning a smaller party? Why not take advantage of our pre-bookable potter’s wheel sessions for individuals, families and small groups.

A happy customer

“We recently had a hen party at Eastnor pottery and did the coil pot making and taster on the wheel. It was such a fun afternoon, Jon was a good laugh and it was a lovely atmosphere……..we also took some prosecco along with us too that helped our creativity! Jon is a great teacher and it was really fun to each have a go on the wheel which was guided really well and the results were surprisingly all pretty good! We also each made and painted something using the coil technique, from candle holders and jugs to tortoises and penguins! The studio is beautiful and in such a pretty spot! Jon and his daughter were so welcoming and I would really recommend a workshop here.” Anwen