Offering crafting workshops and community events in Freeport, Maine
Past Workshops
The Keepsake Workshops | Pre-K to 2nd Grade (2 spots)3:15-4:45 PMMonday, April 27
Monday, May 4
Monday, May 11
Monday, May 18
Using children’s books as a starting point, this class invites children into a playful world of art, reflection, and making. Through watercolor and mixed-media projects, we’ll explore themes of memory, gratitude, and time while creating meaningful keepsakes inspired by favorite things, special moments, and the people and places we love.Over the four-week series, children will make small handmade treasures, paint the past and present, and work together on collaborative time capsules. Along the way, we’ll read beautiful stories, share ideas, and make space for imagination, connection, and play.Taught by Anna Child at Morse Street School. 14 participants max.$160 for four classes: includes all supplies and a healthy snack. No refunds for missed classes but there will be a makeup class offered. Questions? Email [email protected]
Spring Reset: A Mother–Daughter Retreat (Grade 2-6, FULL, sign up for waitlist)
Sunday, March 22 | 11:45am-2:45pm
Celebrate the spring equinox with a restorative afternoon designed for mothers and daughters to pause, reset, and welcome the new season together.This special collaboration between Parfait and Dryppe Sauna at The Brewster House pairs a relaxing sauna experience for moms with a creative self-care workshop for girls, culminating in a shared moment of warmth and connection. Participants will be welcomed as guests of The Brewster House, enjoying access to the inn’s peaceful sauna and parlor space.The afternoon begins with daughters being dropped off at Parfait Headquarters (2 Foggs Farm Rd, Freeport) for a hands-on workshop focused on feeling good inside and out.Together we will:
-Have a delicious lunch + special spring drink
-Learn about the importance of self-care
-Craft a body/wellness product to take home + a surprise for MomAfter drop-off, moms will head to Brewster House to enjoy a two-hour sauna session at Dryppe, where towels, sandals, and robes will be waiting to welcome them into a space of warmth and light. With parent permission, daughters will be driven from Parfait to Dryppe.Girls will then have the opportunity to enjoy a 30-minute sauna session at a child-safe temperature, while moms join in or relax in the parlor/outside with a beverage.Includes: Sauna session for mom with shower and changing room option, 30-minute sauna session for daughter, a Parfait self-care workshop for daughters with lunch, handmade wellness product to take home and surprise gift for Mom.$99 per pair | Limited to 6 mother–daughter pairs
Parfait Junior Kitchen, Grades 3-5Wednesday, 2/4 (early release for RSU5): 12-1:45pm
Wednesday, 2/11: 3:30-5:10
Wednesday, 2/25: 3:30-5:10
Wednesday, 3/04: 3:30-5:10
Inspired by Top Chef, this four class workshop series will encourage children to explore cooking through creativity and play. Each session centers on a fun theme, where kids craft their own dishes in a fun and supportive setting that celebrates imagination. 12 participants max.Taught by Anna Child at Mast Landing School in Freeport
$160 for four classes: includes all supplies, and snack. No refunds for missed classes but there will be a makeup classes offered. Questions? Email [email protected]
Late Winter Clay Workshop, Kindergarten-Grade 23:45-5:15
Monday, 2/2
Monday, 2/9
Monday, 3/2
In this three week session, we will explore the foundations of handbuilt ceramics by creating pieces inspired by late winter in Maine. Students will make vibrant Valentine’s Day heart ornaments, geometric snowflake plaques, and whimsical gnome and mushroom sculptures. In a warm, supportive environment, each ninety-minute workshop will feature handbuilding instruction with stoneware clay and surface decoration with underglazes and glazes, all while enjoying conversations and read-alouds while we work. Finished (fired) work will be sent home each week. 12 participants max.Taught by Kate Martens at Wanderlust Art Cafe, 2 Mechanic Street in Freeport
$120 for three classes: includes all supplies, kiln firings and a snack. No refunds for missed classes but there will be a makeup classes offered. Questions? Email [email protected]
Magical Art, Kindergarten-Grade 33:30-5pm
Wednesday, 1/14
Wednesday, 1/21
Wednesday, 1/29
Wednesday, 2/4
A four-week creative adventure for K–2 makers where imagination takes the lead. Each week we’ll explore a new kind of magic through art and play — mixing shimmering potions, painting secret messages, treasure hunt art and creating our own sensory dough filled with surprises. This workshop invites children to experiment, imagine, and delight in the wonders they create with their own hands. 12 participants max.Taught by Anna Child and held at the Wanderlust Art Cafe, 2 Mechanic Street in Freeport
$120 for three classes: includes all supplies and a healthy snack. No refunds for missed classes but there will be a makeup class offered. Questions? Email [email protected]
Shine your Light with Craft, Grades 3-53:45-5:45
Wednesday, 12/3
Wednesday, 12/10
Wednesday, 12/17
In these workshops, children will be offered a respite from the hustle of the holiday season and endless to-dos. We will explore how to shine our inner light during the longest nights and what it means to take things more slowly. The focus will be on making and we will craft simple, heartfelt gifts for loved ones. Examples of gifts we may create include boxes of handmade candies and chocolates, seasonal decorations, soothing salves, and simple toys.Taught by Anna Child and held at her home, 2 Foggs Farm Road in Freeport$120 for three classes: includes all supplies and a healthy snack. No refunds for missed classes but there will be a makeup class offered. Questions? Email [email protected]
Making with Plants, Grades 3-53:45-5:45
Wednesday, October 22
Wednesday, October 29
Wednesday, November 12
Wednesday, November 19
In these workshops we will be learning about plants (identification, properties, benefits, cautions) but mostly how to make things with them. Examples of items we may make include lip balm, room spray, elderberry syrup, tea, hand-dyed sachets, and other treasures. The main goal is to have fun and explore how we can create with plants while building awareness of the natural world that surrounds us.Taught by Anna Child and held at her home, 2 Foggs Farm Road in Freeport$120 for three classes: includes all supplies and a healthy snack. No refunds for missed classes but there will be a makeup class offered. Questions? Email [email protected]
Upcoming Offerings
Clay Heirlooms with Kate Martens7-9pm, Wednesday, August 5 & Wednesday, August 12
Join local artist and educator Kate Martens for a two-evening adult clay workshop at Mast Landing Brewery. Participants will create a hand-built ceramic wall piece inspired by family, home, and the small details that create meaning and identity: flowers from your childhood backyard, a favorite symbol, a beloved family pet, a personal mantra, or another concept of which you feel called to create a physical manifestation.
In the first class, you’ll roll out a slab and shape, texture, and border your piece. After bisque firing, you’ll return for the second class to add color, decoration, and text with underglaze and glaze. The finished product will be a personal ceramic keepsake to hang in your home for years to come. No clay experience needed.Taught by Kate Martens at the beautiful upstairs event space at Mast Landing Brewery. 16 participants max.$150 for both classes: includes a drink each class and all supplies.
About
Hi, I'm Anna Child - the heart behind Parfait.I'm a Freeport resident who didn’t grow up crafting with plants or playing by the water’s edge. My childhood and teen years unfolded in the bustling cities of Seoul and Tokyo — places that couldn’t feel more different from coastal Maine, yet shaped my love of culture, creativity, and new ways of living.I earned my MPH from UNC Chapel Hill and spent nearly fifteen years working in food systems. I founded Core Sound Seafood, a community-supported seafood business, and later worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in international fisheries.In 2015, when I became a mother, my life shifted in beautiful, hard and unexpected ways. Five months after my first daughter was born, my husband and I took a leap of faith and moved to Maine. The transition was difficult, but after making it through my first long winter, I fell in love with Maine's storybook charm, wild beauty, and the rhythm of its seasons. We settled in Freeport in 2017, and it’s now the community I’m so grateful to call home.I’ve always been interested in education, but watching my three daughters enter school expanded that passion. I’ve worked at a Montessori school, Friends School of Portland, Maine Coast Waldorf School, and volunteered in our community schools. I hold a certification from Sophia's Hearth in the Foundations of the first three years.Through Parfait, I bring together my love of creativity, play, and community — and find deep joy in watching children explore, make, and grow through the creative process.
Hello! I’m Kate Martens, and I’m so looking forward to joining the Parfait team as an Art Educator.I grew up in Pownal and moved back to Maine two years ago after twenty years away. It feels like such a gift to raise my children in a place with so much space, beauty, and everyday inspiration.I studied studio art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and child development and art history at Tufts University. In my twenties, I lived and taught in Ghana, Costa Rica, Seoul, Singapore, and Boston, and completed my Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After more than a decade of teaching full-time, I stepped away from the art classroom when I had my first child.Over the past seven years, I’ve welcomed two more children and built a small art business—stocking retail stores and museum shops with tiny ceramic gnomes and mushrooms, taking on the occasional public art project, and maintaining a (slow but steady) painting practice with a handful of commercial clients.I’m so excited to bring my love of playful making to Parfait and to help create unique workshops for kids.
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