Let's Create - Unstructured Activities to Encourage Imagination

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Let's Create - Unstructured Activities to Encourage Imagination

We offer Pay-What-You-Can creative play sessions for young people of all ages in Stroud.

Using recycled materials like cardboard, fabric, and paint, our sessions provide a space to explore, gain confidence, and have fun through unstructured play.

28/10/2026

Come with a plan. Come with a wild idea. Come with absolutely no clue what you're going to do.

We don't mind.

Build something ridiculous. Invent something that doesn't exist. Join forces with a complete stranger and hatch a masterplan.

Paint a box brown for an entire hour.

Change your mind seventeen times.

Make a glorious mess. Make something tiny. Make something enormous. Make something that makes absolutely no sense to anyone but you.

Grown-ups, you're in on this too. Get stuck in. Go off on your own creative tangent. Or grab a coffee and enjoy not being in charge of anything for five minutes.

No one is here to tell you what to make.

We're not interested in 20 identical masterpieces lined up on a table.

We're interested in what happens when people are given the space to do their own thing.

📦 Friday 30 October — Brimscombe Mill
📦 Saturday 31 October — Stroud Brewery
⏰ Both 10am–12pm

Come along, see what happens 💜

Brimscombe Mill Stroud Brewery Bar & Cafe

26/09/2026

Play theorist Bob Hughes identified 16 different types of play — creative, imaginative, exploratory, symbolic, social, mastery and more. Once you start looking for them, you realise just how much can be happening when a child is apparently “just playing”.

A cardboard box isn't one thing.
It can be cut up, climbed into, joined to another one, drawn on, turned upside down, worn, built with, destroyed, rebuilt — or become something that would never have occurred to us.
And that's exactly the point.

We can create the conditions for their ideas to happen.
So at Let’s Create, you'll find cardboard, tape, scissors, fabric, pens, Makedo tools and plenty of random gubbins.

You won't find an example of what everybody is supposed to make.
Because we don't want children to get better at following our ideas.

We want them to trust their own.
Time. Materials. Permission.
And then we see what happens.

Next sessions:
Friday 30 October · Brimscombe Mill Brimscombe Mill
Saturday 31 October · Stroud Brewery Stroud Brewery Bar & Cafe

Pay what you can: £5 / £6 / £7 per child or young person.
And if money's tight, ask us for a Session for Sam — no questions asked. 💛

26/09/2026

Play theorist Bob Hughes identified 16 different types of play — creative, imaginative, exploratory, symbolic, social, mastery and more. Once you start looking for them, you realise just how much can be happening when a child is apparently “just playing”.

A cardboard box isn't one thing.
It can be cut up, climbed into, joined to another one, drawn on, turned upside down, worn, built with, destroyed, rebuilt — or become something that would never have occurred to us.
And that's exactly the point.

We can create the conditions for their ideas to happen.
So at Let’s Create, you'll find cardboard, tape, scissors, fabric, pens, Makedo tools and plenty of random gubbins.

You won't find an example of what everybody is supposed to make.
Because we don't want children to get better at following our ideas.

We want them to trust their own.
Time. Materials. Permission.
And then we see what happens.

Next sessions:
Friday 30 October · Brimscombe Mill
Saturday 31 October · Stroud Brewery

Pay what you can: £5 / £6 / £7 per child or young person.
And if money's tight, ask us for a Session for Sam — no questions asked. 💛

Brimscombe Mill Stroud Brewery Bar & Cafe

21/09/2026

They make a thing. They make another thing. They paint a box green for an hour and then run around in fancy dress. Or tape a tube with 15 different coloured tapes. It's not a thing at all, it's their thing.

And that's how we like it.

Georgie and Alex are here to support, shape, and get what the young people need. You can sit, have a coffee and watch, or join in. Perhaps make that thing you want to make. Totally up to you.

It's unstructured, it's a bit messy and it's totally their time for 2 hours.

Back at Brimscombe Mill this Saturday morning 10am until 12pm. Come when you want, pay what you can, do what they want.

Can't wait.

20/06/2026

🎸💛 Come find us at Dursley Rocks today! 💛🎸

We'll be there from 1pm–3pm with plenty of opportunities to build, invent, imagine and create.

📦 Cardboard 🔩 Blue screws & saws ✂️ Cutting, sticking & constructing 💡 Wild ideas 🏗 Big builds

No instructions. No pressure. Just materials, imagination and permission to make something brilliant.

Come and say hello, get stuck in, and enjoy all the fantastic music, food and festival fun that Dursley Rocks has to offer.

See you there! ✨

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25/05/2026

🐟 Fish Disco making tomorrow at the Chantry Centre 🐟

Tomorrow morning we’ll be turning piles of Scrap Store treasures into:

✨ fish hats
🐠 sea creature costumes
🎀 fishy accessories
🌊 wearable ocean chaos

All ahead of the Fish Disco finale at Offbeat Dursley on 6 June with the fabulous presenting and .spearing spinning some tunes to get you moving💛

We’ve got loads of materials, loads of space and absolutely no expectations for your fish creation to make sense 😅

📅 Tuesday 26 May
⏰ Drop in anytime 10am–11:30am
📍 Chantry Centre, Dursley

Free • All ages welcome • Just come make stuff

Big shout out to Gloucester Resource Centre, we love you and all your amazing Scrap Store stuff! Providing lots of fun for us, and preventing stuff going to landfill!!! Whoop.

15/04/2026

We’ve got some lovely news to share 💛

Let’s Create has been awarded a Community Award from the Stroud Rotary Club, along with £500 to support our sessions.
Let’s Create has always been about something simple —
making space for young people (and grown-ups) to play, imagine, and create freely.

No pressure. No expectations. Just time, space, and materials to explore.

This support helps us keep sessions low-cost, accessible, and open to everyone — which really matters right now.

We headed to the presentation evening in March, and shared a little bit about what Let’s Create is all about (wihich was so great 😅).

Thank you to everyone who comes along, spreads the word, and helps make it what it is 💛

Address

Stroud

Telephone

07843447905

Website

https://letscreatethroughplay.org/

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