Craft fairs, markets and workshops 🎁
Craft fairs, independent markets and workshops provide the perfect place to pick out truly special, unique gifts or to even make something yourself that you can give to someone for Christmas 🎁
This online guide showcases some of the very best craft fairs, markets and workshops that Sheffield city centre businesses have to offer this Christmas 🎄
Events and activities are listed in date order. Simply click the ✨ for further information and to book tickets (where applicable).
📖 This guide was last updated on Tuesday 5 November 2024. All information correct at time of writing. Where events are ticketed (🎟️), tickets were available at the time of publication.
Crafted 🧵
📅 Saturday 26 October to Tuesday 24 December 2024
📍 Millennium Gallery
📝 Building on the success of the popular Handmade for Christmas, Crafted puts the skills of some of the North’s finest independent craftspeople, artists and designers front and centre. You’ll find a wide range jewellery, glass, ceramics, woodwork and metalwork, art, textiles and much more, providing plenty of options for finding that perfect Christmas gift 🎁
💡 The Millennium Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday between 10am and 5pm and Sunday between 11am and 4pm. The Millennium Gallery is closed on Tuesday 5 November for staff training.
✨ Crafted - Sheffield Museums Trust
The Festive Craft & Makers Market 🧵
📅 Saturday 2 November 2024
📍 Sheffield Cathedral
📝 Discover an eclectic mix of craft, vintage, makers and artisans all under one amazing roof 🧵
✨ Little Hummingbird Events: Artisan and Makers Market — Sheffield Cathedral
Sip and Pot Christmas Decoration 🎨
📅 Saturday 2 November 2024
📍 The Art House
📝 Get your hands dirty at The Art House's 'informal, creative pottery session' and make a festive feature for your tree 🎄
🎟️ £25
✨ Christmas at the Art House — The Art House
Fields, Flowers & Plants Pop Up Shop 🌼
📅 Saturday 2, 16 and 30 November and 14 December 2024
📍 Orchard Square
Sheffield Print Fair 🎨
📅 Saturday 9 November 2024
📍 Millennium Gallery
📝 The Sheffield Print Fair returns for a celebration of 'all things print', including screen-print, intaglio, linocut, wood engraving, collagraph, digital, woodcut and more.
💡 The first 50 people through the door will receive a free 'Sheffield Print Fair' tote bag 🛍️
✨ Sheffield Print Fair 2024 - Sheffield Museums Trust
Sheffield Christmas Market 🎄
📅 Thursday 14 November to Tuesday 24 December 2024
📍 Peace Gardens, Pinstone Street and The Moor
📝 The city centre's famous Sheffield Christmas Market is back with an array of seasonal food and drink and unique gift ideas. Celebrating Sheffield's great independent scene, there'll be a whole host of traders with many of them based locally. Expect Alpine-themed bars, a traditional German sausage grill, Yorkshire pudding wraps, mulled wine, cider, hot chocolate, churros and many other treats 😋 The iconic Big Wheel will be making a welcome return and there's a chance to meet the big man himself at Santa's Grotto.
💡 Opening times as follows:
The Moor cabins
📅 Sunday to Thursday - 10am to 6pm
📅 Friday and Saturday - 10am to 7pm
Pinstone Street cabins
📅 Sunday to Thursday - 10am to 7pm
📅 Friday and Saturday - 10am to 8pm
Alpine Bars
📅 Open between 11am and 10pm.
✨ Sheffield Christmas Market 2024
💡 Celebrate the opening weekend of Sheffield's Christmas Market with an array of festive family entertainment across the city centre, including big bands, choirs, dance, panto, street entertainment, children's costume characters, crafts and storytelling as part of the Crackers for Christmas opening weekend event on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November 2024.
🗺️ Download the Crackers for Christmas map here.
Winter Makers Market 🧵
📅 Saturday 16 November 2024
📍 Showroom Workstation
📝 Celebrate the festive season with Endless Love Creative and 60+ independent makers stalls 🧵
🎟️ £2
Craft & Flea Christmas Special 🧵
📅 Saturday 16 November 2024
📍 Sheffield Cathedral
📝 An authentic twist on the traditional Christmas market with a huge selection of products, from illustration to vintage bric-a-brac, plants to jewellery, sustainable products to food, ceramics to candles 🕯️
🎟️ £2.50
✨ Craft and Flea Christmas Special — Sheffield Cathedral
Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios 🎨
📅 Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November 2024
📍 Persistence Works, Brown Street
📍 Exchange Place, Exchange Street
📝 Meet some of the most talented artists in the region and support them by buying their work direct from the source.
💡 Visit Yorkshire Artspace's facebook page for more on this year's Open Studios event.
✨ Open Studios 2024 → Yorkshire Artspace
Festive Craft & Makers Market 🧵
📅 Sunday 17 November 2024
📍 Trafalgar Warehouse
📝 Discover an eclectic mix of craft, vintage, makers and artisans all under one roof 🧵
✨ (2) Festive Craft and Makers market at Trafalgar Warehouse | Facebook
Pollen 🌻
📅 Sunday 17 November 2024
📍 Grey to Green, Castlegate
📝 A monthly celebration of all things botanical in the UK's greenest city 🌿
✨(1) Pollen. Inner-City Flower Market - Sunday 17th November | Facebook
Bauble Painting Workshop 🎨
📅 Wednesday 20 November 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
🎟️ £31.05
📝 Join Cambridge Street Collective for a 'fun bauble painting workshop' where you can unleash your creativity and make unique holiday decorations 🎨
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
✨ Bauble Painting Workshop Tickets, Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
Craft Jam 🎨
📅 Thursday 21 November 2024
📍 Millennium Gallery
📝 Try your hand at a variety of crafts with hands-on activities and mini workshops in the Millennium Gallery’s late-night crafting extravaganza, returning for its 10th year 🎊
🎟️ £12
✨ Craft Jam 2024 - Sheffield Museums Trust
Sip & Paint Sheffield 🎨
📅 Thursday 21 November 2024
📍 BrewDog Sheffield
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £34.99
✨ Sip & Paint Sheffield! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
Festive Wreath Making Workshop 🌿
📅 Monday 25 November and Monday 2 December 2024
📍 Forum Sheffield
📝 Festive Wreath Making workshops with local florist Leah Fleur Rebelle.
🎟️ £60 per person
✨ Celebrate Christmas Events at The Forum | Festive Parties & More
Wreath Making Workshop 🌿
📅 Wednesday 27 November 2024
📍 Sheffield Plate, Orchard Square
📝 Join Sheffield Plate's favourite 'plant and flower guru for a 90 minute masterclass.
🎟️ £40 per person
✨ Wreath Making Workshop Tickets, Wed 27 Nov 2024 at 18:30 | Eventbrite
Christmas Wreath Making 🌿
📅 Wednesday 27 November 2024
📍 The Botanist
📝 Hosted by First 4 Flowers, the worksop includes a welcome Prosecco and a few other festive treats 🎄
🎟️ £39.95 person
💡 To book tickets email rebeccawestoby@thebotanist.uk.com
Sip & Paint Winter! 🎨
📅 Saturday 30 November 2024
📍 Showroom Workstation
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £35.99
✨ Sip & Paint Winter! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
Lou Lou's Vintage Market 🧵
📅 Saturday 30 November 2024
📍 Sheffield Cathedral
📝 The UK's most loved vintage market returns to bring you a treasure trove of vintage fashion, jewellery, collectables, and more.
🎟️ £3
✨ Lou Lou's Vintage Market — Sheffield Cathedral
Orchard Square's Makers Market 🍎
📅 Saturday 30 November 2024
📍 Orchard Square
📝 Orchard Square's Makers Market makes a seaonal return full of creative talent. Think local traders, deli stalls, crafts and much more ✨
Biomorphic Patterns in Persian & Ottoman Art 🧵
📅 Saturday 30 November 2024
📍 Millennium Gallery
📝 In this one-day taster session, participants will immerse themselves in the traditional art form, learning how to transfer intricate patterns, craft paints using a glass muller, and work with gouache. Suitable for all levels, this experience also provides a calming, therapeutic outlet through creativity. All materials provided.
🎟️ £38.99 per person
✨ Workshop: Biomorphic Patterns in Persian & Ottoman Art - Sheffield Museums Trust
Roundabout's Christmas Makers Market and Santa's Grotto 🎄
📅 Saturday 30 November 2024
📍 Sheffield Town Hall
📝 The Roundabout Christmas Market will feature over 40 artisan traders, offering a fantastic selection of handcrafted goods, festive treats, and one-of-a-kind items.
💡 All proceeds from this event will go to Roundabout, helping young people at risk of homelessness in South Yorkshire.
🎟️ Tickets for Santa's Grotto, priced at £9.90 can be booked here.
✨ Roundabout Christmas Market & Santa's Grotto - Roundabout Homeless Charity
Roots & Bloom Wreath Making 🌿
📅 Saturday 30 November 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 Roots & Bloom is a local flower farm that helps people who are living with dementia to live happier, healthier lives. This Christmas workshop will help you to get creative making a door or table wreath from sustainably grown British foliage.
🎟️ £54.88 per person
✨ Roots and Bloom Wreath Making Tickets, Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
Festive Craft & Makers Market 🧵
📅 Sunday 1 December 2024
📍 Trafalgar Warehouse
📝 Discover an eclectic mix of craft, vintage, makers and artisans all under one roof 🧵
Christmas Markets at Cambridge Street Collective 🎄
📅 Sunday 1, 8, 15 and 22 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 Every Sunday in December, join Cambridge Street Collective for their weekly Christmas Markets.
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
Creating the Ultimate Christmas Cheeseboard 🧀
📅 Tuesday 3 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 Help yourself to some of the finest festive cheeses known to mankind - eight cheeses in total, with all the trimmings - and discover how to put together the Christmas Cheese Board of your dreams 🧀
🎟️ £16.68
🧀 Event brought to you by Homage2Fromage
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
✨ Creating the Ultimate Christmas Cheese Board Tickets, Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Sip & Paint Christmas! 🎨
📅 Wednesday 4 December 2024
📍 BrewDog Sheffield
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £34.99
✨ Sip & Paint Christmas! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
Macrame Snowflake Decorations 🧵
📅 Wednesday 4 December 2024
📍 Sheffield Plate, Orchard Square
📝 Create your very own macrame snowflake decoration in this 90 minute workshop.
🎟️ £20 per person
✨ Macrame Snowflake Decorations making workshop Tickets, Wed 4 Dec 2024 at 18:30 | Eventbrite
Bauble Painting Workshop 🎨
📅 Wednesday 4 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
🎟️ £31.05
📝 Join Cambridge Street Collective for a 'fun bauble painting workshop' where you can unleash your creativity and make unique holiday decorations 🎨
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
✨ Bauble Painting Workshop Tickets, Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
Festive Wreath Making 🌿
📅 Wednesday 4 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 Be the envy of your street and join Flowers by Amy for a fun evening making your own festive door wreath.
🎟️ £49.46
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
✨ Festive Wreath Making Tickets, Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Christmas Wreath Making with Plantology 🌿
📅 Wednesday 4 December 2024
📍 Kommune
📝 A fun-filled evening of creating beautiful Christmas wreaths with Plantology 🌿
Learn tips and tricks from the pros while enjoying some festive cheer.
🎟️ £50.55 per person
✨ Christmas Wreath Making with Plantology Tickets, Wed 4 Dec 2024 at 18:00 | Eventbrite
The Art House Christmas Fair 🎄
📅 Thursday 5 to Saturday 21 December 2024
📍 The Art House
📝 A curated show and bazaar of beautiful local handmade products.
💡 Father Christmas will be making a special visit to the Fair on Saturday 14 December.
✨ Christmas Fair — The Art House
Print Wooden Festive Decorations 🎨
📅 Saturday 7 December 2024
📍 Carousel Print Studio, Exchange Place Studios
📝 Learn a simple printmaking process and create your own festive coloured decorations.
🎟️ £45
✨ Print Wooden Festive Decorations Tickets, Sat 7 Dec 2024 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
Christmas Tree Decorations Workshop 🎄
📅 Saturday 7 December 2024
📍 The Art House
📝 Create beautiful, handcrafted Christmas Tree Decorations using quality, glossy origami paper, beads, embroidery thread and needle. Suitable for intermediate crafters up to the more experienced.
🎟️ £35
✨ Christmas at the Art House — The Art House
Festive Wreath Making Workshop 🌿
📅 Saturday 7 and Saturday 14 December 2024
📍 Showroom Cinema
📝 Founder of Campbell’s Flowers, Tracey Campbell will 'bring festive flair and expert guidance' to help you create your very own 'show-stopping Christmas wreath'.
🎟️ £55 per person, includes all materials, a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.
💡 Only 20 spaces available per session. Contact the Box Office on (0114) 275 7727 to book your place.
✨ Festive Wreath-Making Workshop - Showroom Workstation - Sheffield
Festive Wreath Making 🎄
📅 Monday 9 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 Be the envy of your street and join Flowers by Amy for a fun evening making your own festive door wreath.
🎟️ £49.46
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
✨ Festive Wreath Making Tickets, Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Christmas Cross Stitch Card Making 🧶
📅 Tuesday 10 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 Create your very own Christmas Card using cross stitch. Learn the basics or perfect your own skills.
🎟️ £20.21
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
✨ Christmas Cross Stitch Card Making Tickets, Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
Sip & Paint Frida Kahlo! 🎨
📅 Thursday 12 December 2024
📍 BrewDog Sheffield
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £34.99
✨ Sip & Paint Frida Kahlo! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
Christmas Maze Workshop 🎄
📅 Saturday 14 December 2024
📍 The Art House
📝 Create a wonderful Christmas gift and the wrapping paper ready to go under the tree 🎁 You will create a 12” x 12” hand-decorated maze to your own design and the paper to wrap it in. Suitable for crafting beginners up to the more experienced.
🎟️ £35
✨ Christmas at the Art House — The Art House
Family Christmas Stocking Screenprinting Workshop 🎨
📅 Saturday 14 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝 You will screenprint your very own Christmas stockings, just in time for the big man’s arrival.
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
Sip & Paint Christmas! 🎨
📅 Sunday 15 December 2024
📍 The Museum, Orchard Square
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £35.99
✨ Sip & Paint Christmas! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
Pollen 🌻
📅 Sunday 15 December 2024
📍 Grey to Green, Castlegate
📝 A monthly celebration of all things botanical in the UK's greenest city 🌿
✨ (1) Pollen. Inner-City Flower Market | Facebook
Festive Table Centrepiece Workshop 🎄
📅 Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
📝Get creative with Flowers by Amy for a fun, festive evening making your own Christmas table centrepiece.
🎟️ £49.46
✨ 16 December - Festive Table Centrepiece Workshop Tickets, Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
✨ 17 December - Festive Table Centrepiece Workshop Tickets, Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Night Market at Cambridge Street Collective 🎄
📅 Thursday 19 December 2024
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
💡 Visit Cambridge Street Collective's website for more festive-themed events.
Sip & Paint Christmas Frida Kahlo! 🎨
📅 Friday 20 December 2024
📍 Kommune
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £34.99
✨ Sip & Paint Christmas Frida Kahlo! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
Sip & Paint Christmas! 🎨
📅 Saturday 21 December 2024
📍 Showroom Workstation
📝 Unleash your creativity – wine glass in one hand, paint brush in the other.
No experience needed.
🎟️ £35.99
✨ Sip & Paint Christmas! Sheffield ⋆ PopUp Painting
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