The 7 best workshops to do in Grenoble

If you want to work your creativity during your stay in the Alps, here is a selection of the 7 best workshops to be done in Grenoble!

You are visiting the Grenobloise region, and would like to take advantage of your stay to discover new activities? Or are you living in this beautiful city and you want to spice up your weekends by expanding your skills? Don’t wait anymore and discover our selection of the best workshops to do in Grenoble.

Between sewing, creation of homemade shampoo and Génépi distillery, you will find it for all tastes. In addition, taking part in such workshops will offer you the opportunity to make new meetings, while spending a nice time.

While it’s for you, your half or a birthday present, don’t wait anymore and discover the 7 best workshops to do in Grenoble!

1. Make your pair of wooden earrings

To start this selection of the best workshops to be done in Grenoble, we take you to the local of Jason. Here you can compose in love, with friends or with family a great gift for the next parties: wooden earrings !

You will first choose the essence of wood that you want, which defines the shade of your jewel. Then you polish the wood, and give it the shape you want. For this step, you will learn how to handle the sing saw. Finally, after having made the titanium ties, you will decorate the earrings with the help of linen oil.

Thus, you will go back with the sense of the work accomplished, and obviously with your pair of earrings.

2. Make your zero waste kit

If you care about ecology and want to contribute to your way to reducing pollution, in a relaxed atmosphere, then Céline will offer you one of the best workshops in Grenoble. Beginning with playful exercises to familiarize yourself with machine sewing, you will get the first bases.

Then, thanks to Céline's advice, you will cut, star, and sew the chosen fabrics, so that your kit will take shape. Finally, you will decorate your zero waste kit according to your preferences. Once the 4 hours of workshops are finished, you will leave with 7 single-sided wipes bamboo microspong, 100% reversible pan and a matching washing net .

3. Start sewing by making your t-shirt

Since we feel good, why not stay at Céline’s third workshop in Grenoble? This time. your own T-shirts that you will learn to make! Finishes the great brands, or the hours spent in fryinges looking for the rare pearl. Thanks to this workshop, you will learn make your clothes yourself !

Between the choice of the boss then the fabric, its cut, its assembly and obviously its decoration, the sewing will no longer have any secret for you. If you’re beginners don’t worry about it, Céline is particularly pedagogue, and you’ll learn to make a perfect subject, to mount a handle, to assemble a neck band, or to make a double needle hem... In short, you will become a real professional, and then can reproduce these techniques at home!

4. Make your soap and natural shampoo

Do you have enough soaps full of chemicals and preservatives? Enjoy one of the best workshops in Grenoble, at Marion and Jérôme, for make your shampoos and 100% natural soaps ! You will first learn dosing techniques to give the smell you prefer to your body products.

Obviously, you will also discover the basics of cold saponification, before choosing the shapes and colors of your natural cosmetics. At the end of these 3 hours of workshop, you will leave with your products. Attention, however, you will have to let them hard for 72 hours, and an additional week before you can use them! Patience, so...

5. Discover the furniture tapestry by making your chair

You just moved in and are looking for the furniture that match you? Do you want to become more manual in order to restore antique furniture, to give a vintage style to your accommodation? So this workshop in Grenoble is for you! On a full day, alongside Sonia, you will learn to restore life and decorate an old chair , as you wish.

After choosing your chair, then your fabric, you will be guided by the good advice of Sonia. Between the cutting of the foam, the laying of the passpoil, or the sewing of the fabric, you will become a real handicraft!

Of course, you will go back with your creation, but also with the feeling of being able to drink all the little tricks of your accommodation. And that doesn’t cost!

6. Realize your gene

Since the evocation of this workshop in the introduction of the article, we know that you look forward to it... There he is! Thanks to Laurent, and one of the best workshops to do in Grenoble, we offer you learning to realize your own Génépi . In an exceptional distillery, accompanied by Yannick and Emilie, you will discover the secrets of making this particular alcohol (and so appreciated!).

If the Génépi is a real institution, it is also important to know that it is a plant harvested at more than 2,000 metres above sea level, near the Italian border. By choosing your brins, by making them macerate, and by choosing your different perfumes and scents, you will end up leaving with 50 cl of your own artisanal genepi .

The little plus? Throughout the workshop, you will have the opportunity to enjoy lots of beautiful surprises... We don't tell you any more!

7. Initiate the casting and decoration on porcelain

It is at Ivan’s, in a manual porcelain decoration workshop that we take you to finish this selection of the best workshops to be done in Grenoble. This ceramist craftsman will explain his work technique, the tools and materials used for the realization of his pieces.

Then, after preparing the materials, you will launch into the ceramic casting. The time it takes shape in the mussels that you have chosen, you will enjoy a lunch together. In addition, the time of drying, Yvan will unveil its own creations, and will even let you decorate them to your taste, in order to hand you.

Once the technique is obtained, you will demolish your morning pieces and decorate them. Finally, after this meticulous work, you will leave with yours beautiful custom creations .