The 7 best workshops to do in Nice

Create something from your ten fingers through these ideas of workshops to be done in Nice. Living or offering!

Because Nice cannot be reduced to its Promenade des Anglais, its pebbly beaches or its dynamic city centre, here are some ideas of workshops to be done in Nice.

These workshops are carried out with a master’s hand by passionate craftsmen, who have the heart to make you discover their profession. Perhaps you will then feed a new enthusiasm for perfumery, ceramics or leather goods? Overall focus on discovery and learning, the manual workshops have the wind in the stern.

Let yourself be tempted, imagine and create but especially have fun!

1. Perfume

Initiate yourself to the practice of perfumery and discover the mysteries that hide behind this olfactory art. Guided by smokers who know their craft well, first start your experience with a fun activity, consisting of the discovery of scents and essences as well as perfumery techniques.

Then create your unique fragrance, mixing the head, heart and background notes in the way of professionals. You will go home with your unique fragrance, nothing but you.

This experience is even available online. You receive a special kit about 1 week before your workshop and follow it only.

2. Floral

Flower crown

Go to meet Laëtitia C, a floral designer from Nice. During 1:30 , she presents her profession and the art of the dried flower, around her workshop where you will make a crown for 40€ .

From a model that you will first select from the proposed choices, you will be guided in the realization of your crown. Dress a bride, decorate a door or a mirror, you have a lot of possibilities.

Floral art is a delicate art where you need to learn how to handle dried flowers. It is up to you to assemble the plants at your disposal so as to give life to your crown, that you can only hang or offer!

Create a bouquet

Do you like to pick flowers and other branches that you find beautiful? Here is one of the workshops to be done in Nice that should match you. In order to highlight your findings, dive into the universe of the flower and let yourself be seduced by its spelling charms.

With Frédéric E., a florist craftsman, learn how to differentiate foliages, flowers and how to give them perfection. Durant 1h and for 45€ , you will study and understand the floral composition and its techniques and at the end you will leave with your beautiful bouquet, unique and tailor-made.

3. Culinary

Did you always want to discover cooking tricks without taking the time to do it? Thanks to Cheffe Aude Bertaux, it is now possible. Its workshop, created in 2006, welcomes people every day looking for new products and ideas to simply vary their meals.

Full of tricks, Chef Bertaux will give you all the advice you need to make simple yet very gourmet recipes. Who said it was necessary to be a kitchen size to eat well?

It offers several types of courses, ranging from nutri-healthy to Asian gourmet evenings, to children's workshops or back to market. A real pleasure for the mind, since in addition, you can taste what you are preparing in the small garden of the workshop (when the weather permits).

The workshops last between 1h and 5h and cost between 25€ and 85€ . They can be booked online, and each of them offers different menus designed by the Cheffe. You just have to choose!

4. Textile

Passionate about sewing, you sometimes want to make your pieces yourself but you don't know how to do it. Meet Aline P, a costume craftsman, and participate in his workshop! It will teach you all the basics of sewing, offering you also a wide choice of shapes to customize.

That you choose to make a panties in which to fry the summer days ( 2h30, 65€ ) or the realization of a bathing suit to be worn on the beaches of Nice ( 4h, 100€ ), this workshop in Nice is for you.

In addition to getting valuable advice on sewing techniques, from cutting to finishing, you go back with your piece, personalized, unique and custom-made for you.

5. Ceramic pottery

The art of ceramics and pottery have been very successful in recent years. People want to do something from their hands and want to be proud of it. Nothing like making a bowl, a teapot or a bust to raise the personal pride rate.

This is why we propose this topic in the list of workshops to be done in Nice. Accompanied by ceramist artisans, learn first the rudiments of this particular art.

Then put your hand to the dough and make your piece yourself. Discover the different stages of manufacturing, from the work of the clay to cooking, through the shooting and swivelling!

Since you are potentially working on ceramics, there will also be the stage of the enamelling . Now, to you to play, it is about not turning around the pot... Or maybe so?

6. Maroquinerie

How about making your own leather wallet with a very friendly craftsman named Maurice? That’s what we thought, you like the idea. In its workshop located north of downtown, Mauritius offers you, for 45€ , the realization of a wallet or leather part of your choice.

Guided by its wise tips, select your leather, establish the boss and finally cut it all. You then assemble the parts, with pressures or rivets, or even why not, thanks to the hand seam. We assure you, the result will be superb after these 3h and benevolent exchanges with Mauritius.

7. Brassage

Here is one of the workshops to be done in Nice that allows you to refresh yourself. Indeed, learn to brew artisanal beer in the most traditional ways.

After a guided tour of the 800 m2 of the workshop, Robert and his team will reveal all the secrets of manufacturing, step by step. And to conclude this good time, you will take part in a tasting. This will allow you to choose the three beers you've preferred and you can bring home.