The 9 best workshops to do in Reims • Wanderlix

Ville des Sacres, Cité du Champagne... but also city of crafts! Don’t wait anymore and discover the 9 best workshops to do in Reims.

Infused with history and geological wonders, one cannot say what one loves most in Reims: his Champagne wine or his kyrielle of historic buildings? In any case, this town is worth a detour. The program? A visit of the caves among the most prestigious in France and sunny walks between the vineyards.

After this playful break a path punctuated with architectural richness, always more reversing, such as the incredible Cathedral, the palaces and the unmeasured basilicas await you. Then, shopping in a city centre filled with an elegant atmosphere, sublimated by Art Deco facades and pleasant green spaces.

Finally, in Reims, jewellers, florists, couturiers and potters invite you to share their passion and shape an unforgettable memory of your visit. Discover the 9 best workshops to do in Reims and leave with a souvenir or gift as original as memorable.

1. Make your silver jonc

Sarah, in love with Egypt and creation, handles the ancestral art of jewellery. It takes you into its unique universe the time of a workshop in Reims around the manufacture of a hammered silver jonc.

Work of the matter with the slump, shape shaping, hammering to give a beautiful texture: it requires patience. However, you won't see to pass 4h so you'll be obnocated by this immersion... Sarah proposes this initiation session to 210 € .

2. Make your artisanal soap

Eve invites you in her temple dedicated to holistic well-being and naturality. This specialist in shiatsu and meditation is also a love of natural and biological products. It makes you aware of eco-friendly lifestyle by making your own soap.

At the end of this workshop in Reims de 3h , you go away with no less than 250 grams of product with multiple benefits, all for 49 € . First of all, it will be necessary to learn the rudiments of artisanal soap making. What components, what quantities and what safety instructions? Then, free to keep the secret formula or to disclose it to your entourage...

3. Create your custom day cream

Enjoy Eve’s talents again during a workshop in Reims de 2h . This time, let yourself be charmed by the art of solid cosmetics. An ideal compromise 45 € to take care of his skin and the planet. Thanks to the skin diagnosis, your day cream will be perfectly adapted to your needs.

In addition, you will go back knowing how to decrypt the formulas (to finally find you there between real natural products and just well marketed ones) but also with a lot of professional and holistic advice.

4. Create your family recycled paper

The little ones too are entitled at their time only to them! Here they are welcomed by Julie, passionate couturière. His workshop in Reims offers children an introduction to 2h the sewing and the realization of costume accessories.

The ideal for manual and creative cabbage tips, which dream of entering the skin of their favorite character! Mask, cutting crown, sewing, collage: all techniques are addressed, all for 35 € . Even more, this workshop is intended to be educational. It promotes group work and raises awareness of textile recycling.

5. Model your pot on your feet

Want to be a ceramist and designer the time of a hour and half ? Then push the doors of Mary’s workshop, at the crossroads of her passion for earth and plants. It introduces you to modeling, as relaxing and satisfying practice, and proposes you to realize your flower pot on earth for 45 € .

First choose the colors of your earth before to sin and spread it to the roll. Once the material is lowered, place to choose the template, to cut, to dressage and then to the last finishes. Your host will cook and give you a single pot after cooking.

6. Learn vegetal weaving

When plants meet the design, it gives the plant weaving... Julie loves botany and creates with plants. Trust him and penetrate into his fascinating world, riding between ancestral techniques of weaving and modern know-how.

Become then vegetal designer during 2h . Wools and yarn intertwine with gills, foliage and dried flowers. A splendid painting to decorate your walls. For 35 € you can go back with your creation.

7. Create your terrarium

What if you still stay with Julie, our fan of design and greenery? This time, discover his workshop in Reims around the creation of a terrarium. Soothing and light decoration object inspired by the interior well-being decoration, the terrarium is also a miniature ecosystem.

The advantage? No need to be a large gardener. This glass frame is almost autonomous to survive. In addition to choosing the plant, it will also be necessary to choose the aesthetics of the alternative layers of sands, lands and gravel. Julie proposes this workshop of 2:30 for 50 € .

8. Make your kimono

A little bit of Jean-Paul Gauthier vibrates in you? It may well be that this workshop in Reims, dedicated to the making of your own kimono, delights you entirely! It is Julie, a couturière craftsman, who animates this activity during 4h . Choose, among its selection of fabrics, that to the taste of your wardrobe dress.

Of course, you will then have to create your bosses, postpone your fabric, assemble and sewing, all for 60 € . At the end, you are ready to wrap yourself in your own creativity. In addition, this workshop promotes eco-responsibility with recycling fabrics and second-life textiles.

9. Initiate yourself to linogravure

Here's a workshop in Reims 50 € rather original! During 3h , initiate yourself to linogravure, that is, the realization of a stamp on gum to burn. Aurore, a craftsman specialized in engraving, even offers you your little book to test your creation. Its customizable cover allows you to transform it as you like: a personalized gift ideal and full of charms.

First, choose from the motifs offered by Aurore. Then learn the manipulation of the engraving gouges and the rudiments of the gum plates. Patience and dexterity are set. The most sensational part is the passage of the ink that suddenly reveals your drawing...