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Pottery Painting & Craft Studios in Leeds

Leeds has a proper spread of these studios, from chillchillcats goodies & craftroom barely a kilometre from the centre, where you can paint pottery or try a shrink plastic cat head workshop, to Honey Pottery a few miles out, where a ceramic pot or plate from £5 comes back glazed about a week later. Swarthmore Education Centre runs family pottery and jewellery courses with its own café for afterwards. Further out, there's Hopewell Studios in Knaresborough, where a proper course from £172 covers hand-building, painting and screen printing. For something cheap and quick, Painting Pots in Knaresborough starts at £5 and has an under-5s area and high chairs, while Salt Pots in Shipley takes kids from 5 up for pottery, foam clay and clay creatures. Cobbles & Clay in Haworth is dog-friendly and welcomes all ages for a two-hour sit-down session. If it's a grown-up outing you're after, Sunken Studio in Leeds is 18+ only. Most places want a booking and a wait of a week or two for firing, so don't plan on taking anything home the same day.

17 places 1 free to visit

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from £59

ATELIER HUB

Leeds

Build your own mosaic lamp from scratch in a single sit-down workshop, no painting-a-pot shortcuts here.

chillchillcats goodies & craftroom

Leeds

Paint your own pottery or ceramics, then try a shrink plastic cat head workshop or calligraphy on an agate plate.

Person holding a hand-painted white ceramic letter P decorated with colourful floral motifs.

from £10

Cobbles & Clay

Haworth · ages 0-99

Pick a pot, slap on the paints and settle in for two hours at a table that doubles as your café spot in Haworth.

Allergy awareBaby changeBike parkingBooking required+3 more

This is a GRAPHIC - a composite image showing a dog with personalized bowls rather than a single photograph of an actual scene.

from £12

Fired Art Designs

Pontefract · ages 6+

Paint your own pottery or have a go on the wheel, with birthday parties from £15 a head at weekends.

Birthday partiesBooking requiredFree parkingGroup bookings+2 more

Industrial pottery studio with ceramic wheels in foreground and wooden tables with green chairs, large windows and exposed ceiling beams.

from £18

Firefly Pottery

Leeds

Have a go at throwing on a wheel, hand building with clay, or painting a piece to glaze and collect later.

Booking requiredCaféFree parkingToilets

from £5

Honey Pottery

Leeds

Paint a ceramic pot or plate, leave it for firing, and come back a week later to a proper finished piece.

from £172

Hopewell Studios

Knaresborough

A pottery and craft studio where kids can try hand-building, painting or screen printing over a proper course rather than a one-off session.

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Moumita's Art Zone

Leeds · ages 3-18

Small-group art classes in Leeds taking kids from first pencil marks to acrylics and watercolours.

Adult and child doing arts and crafts together at a table with paintbrushes, paints and a decorated pottery piece.

from £5

Painting Pots

Knaresborough

A two-hour sit-down painting pots, making squishies or decorating foam clay, with the finished pottery collected a fortnight later.

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Shelves displaying unpainted ceramic pieces including bowls, mugs, animal figurines and decorative items available for painting at a pottery studio.

Free

Pots2Go Ceramic Café

Harrogate

Paint a plate, stuff a bear or make slime, then wait a fortnight for the kiln to do its thing.

Accessible toiletBaby changeBirthday partiesCafé+6 more

A young child's bare feet leave blue footprints in a shallow bowl of water during a messy play activity.

from £17

Salt Pots Ceramic Studio

Shipley · ages 5+

Kids from 5 up paint pottery, squish foam clay onto pieces, or build clay creatures, with birthday parties laid on too.

Birthday partiesParty rooms

Person's hand touching a ceramic pot with blue decoration among other handmade pottery pieces on display.

Sunken Studio

Leeds · adults only (18+)

An adults-only pottery studio in Leeds, so this one's for a grown-up outing rather than a kids' day out.

Swarthmore Education Centre

Leeds

Family pottery and jewellery making courses in a Leeds education centre with its own café for a break afterwards.

Bike parkingCafé

The Clay Mill

Huddersfield

Wheel throwing and hand-building pottery in a fully accessible studio in Slaithwaite, with birthday sessions on offer too.

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Gourmet open sandwiches topped with fresh vegetables, microgreens and sauce on a yellow plate.

The Craft House, Bingley

Bingley

Sit down and paint your own pottery, then grab lunch in the café afterwards.

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from £15.50

The Pottery Café Halifax

Halifax

Pick a piece of pottery, paint it however you like, and take home a plate, mug or animal figure a few days later.

Birthday partiesCaféParty rooms

Child in green jacket painting a white ceramic car model at a table.

from £15

The Pottery Spot

Brighouse

Pick a plain ceramic pot, mug or animal figurine and paint it, then wait a week or two for it to come back glazed and fired.

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Good to know: pottery painting & craft studios in Leeds

Are any of them free?

Yes, Pots2Go Ceramic Café is free to visit.

What does a paid visit cost?

Paid entry starts from £5 at Honey Pottery. Prices, ages and facilities are listed on every place page, taken from each venue's own published price list.

Whereabouts are they?

You'll find pottery painting & craft studios in Leeds, Haworth, Pontefract, Knaresborough, Harrogate and 5 more. Every place we list is in or around Leeds, and each listing has the full address and directions.