Jewellery Making - an Introduction

As the course progresses, your young makers will develop their skills and learn a range of different techniques to make their pieces stand out. Plus, they’ll be shown how to use a range of different jewellery making tools effectively and safely.

Each week your young creators will undertake a different project and a different type of jewellery. They’ll be encouraged to develop their own style and allow their creative voice to influence their ideas and designs.

The course will culminate with a final project that encompasses all the techniques learned throughout the course, allowing your young artists to consolidate their skills. At every opportunity they’ll be given support and advice to enable them to push their creative boundaries and free their imagination.

• How to use a wide range of jewellery making tools safely and effectively
• Design sketching and developing
• Exploration of different crafting materials
• Open, closing, and creating jump rings
• Making links
• Beaded chain link jewellery: earrings, pendants, bracelets
• Wire manipulation to create unique jewellery
• Polymer clay charms
• Beaded wire wrapped rings and bangles
• Crafting using non-conventional or recycled materials
• Tactile chain tassel pendants and layered necklaces

• Possess improved artistic and design skills
• Be able to use a range of jewellery making equipment and tools safely and effectively
• Have a fundamental understanding of the skills and techniques required to make a range of different jewellery items
• Possess the ability to take an idea from concept, to design, to finished piece with confidence
• Be the proud owner of a collection of wearable jewellery pieces that they’ve completed throughout the course and showcases the development of their skills
• Have increased confidence in their own skills
• Have boosted creativity and imagination
• Untap their potential and talent
• Appreciate the importance of good time management
• Be encouraged to experiment and explore their ideas
• Appreciate teamwork and team building ethics
• Feel inspired by the new skills they've learnt and from sharing ideas with new friends
• Have the foundations to continue creating beyond this course

All students with 100% course attendance will be issued with an official AUB Saturday Art School certificate of attendance.

After this course, your young artist could:

• Continue to harness their creativity; explore our full range of Saturday Art School courses to see where their creative journey will take them next
• Look forward to the future and the next step(s) in their creative journey by exploring AUB's Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media
• Continue to develop their skills at home as a hobby

• We understand how important young creative artists are – they've so much potential, untapped abilities, and enthusiasm
• Your young artist will study at a leading specialist university – we know what we're doing when it comes to providing unparalleled courses
• We encourage your young artist to be themselves and explore their existing interests; as such we harness their natural style and flair to enable them to develop their unique creative voice
• Our tutors are industry professionals, so they'll learn from the best
• We cater for all abilities and have no formal entry requirements for this course, so there's nothing holding your young artist back
• Your young artist will learn in a safe and encouraging environment where there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• They'll learn 'by doing' and always feel fully included, respected, and supported
• They'll benefit from our incredible campus and its industry-standard studios, and use state-of-the-art equipment and software to unleash their creativity