Craft workshops

Craft workshops

Mandrogi is a place where you can see almost all of Russia's folk crafts and trades. Craftsmen from all over the country live and work in the village.

Format

Master class

Opening hours

Sun. - Thu. 10:00 – 17:00 Fri. - Sat. 10:00 – 20:00

Mandrogi is a place where you can see almost all the folk crafts and trades of Russia. Craftsmen from all over the country live and work in the village.

We invite you to participate in master classes in both traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. Please note that preschool-age children must be accompanied by an adult during the master classes.

*Dear guests, please inquire about master classes during your stay in Mandrogi by calling 8 991 049 63 73. Some master classes are temporarily unavailable.

Master class on making pies

Welcome to a private masterclass on making Mandrozhskie pirozhki! Our culinary masterclass will appeal to gourmets and casual eaters alike, from small children to respectable adults.

  • Number of people: 4 or more guests
  • Cost: 2,000 rubles per person
  • You will make 3 pirozhki: cheese, lingonberry, and condensed milk.
Master class on making pies

Blacksmithing master class

Using fire and a hammer, you'll create a horseshoe, knife, or candlestick with your own hands at the "Hand Forging" workshop.

  • Age Restriction: 6+
  • Duration: 40-120 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-2 guests
  • Cost: up to 12 cm - 1800 rubles/guest, over 12 cm - 3500 rubles/guest

Master Class: "Evil Eye Pin" You will create an ancient Slavic amulet

  • Age limit: 6+
  • Duration: 20 minutes
  • Cost: 1 person - 1200 rubles/guest, 2-5 people - 1000 rubles/guest

Heart "With love from Mandrog"

  • Age limit: 6+
  • Duration: 20 minutes
  • Cost: 1-5 people - 800 rubles/guest
Blacksmithing master class

Musical master class

Learn about the history of musical instruments (strings, bowed strings, brass instruments, and percussion instruments) and play them. Have fun and amuse your friends. Admission is free for spectators in your group.

  • Age limit: 5+
  • Duration: 45-60 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-15 guests
  • Cost: up to 12 cm - 1900 rubles per guest
Musical master class

Jewelry making

As part of a general jewelry workshop, you can create your own piece of jewelry. Jewelry making requires creativity and the ability to bring your own ideas to life, making it a great way to express yourself.

  • Age Restriction: 12+

Making a piece of jewelry, without materials:

  • Duration: from 60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-2 people
  • Cost: 2,500 rubles

Making a piece of jewelry with materials:

  • Brass, copper - 500 rubles/piece
  • Cupronickel - 700 rubles/piece
Jewelry making

Bone carving

You will make a talisman from elk horn or mammoth tusk in the form of a pendant or keychain. Along the way, you will learn how to process this unique material.

Age limit: 6+

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Bone carving cost:

  • 1 person – 3,000 rubles
  • 2 people – 2,000 rubles/person

Mammoth tusk talisman cost:

  • 1-2 people – 5,000 rubles/person
Bone carving

Polymer clay modeling

Polymer clay is one of the best materials for creating jewelry. Soft and pliable, it's easy to work with, doesn't stick to your hands, and after heat treatment, it becomes hard and durable.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to make berry jewelry (earrings, a pendant, or a brooch) without the use of special tools.

Jewelry can be picked up two hours after the workshop.

  • Age Restriction: 5+
  • Duration: 40-60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-5
  • Cost: 1800 rubles
Polymer clay modeling

Theatre master class

Children will become actors in a folk puppet theater, try on the roles of mummers and buffoons, and put on performances for their parents with music and special effects. Parents are admitted free.

  • Age limit: 5+ (accompanied by parents)
  • Duration: 45-60 minutes
  • Number of people: 4-6
  • Cost: 1900 rubles
Theatre master class

Sculpting and painting a ceramic figurine

At this workshop, you'll be able to create your own figurine. Share your emotions and convey your vision of the world.

Painting with special paints on a pre-made figurine.

Sculpting and painting a 12 cm figurine.

  • Age limit: 6+
  • Duration: 60-120 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-4
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles/person
Sculpting and painting a ceramic figurine

Cotton wool Christmas tree toy

A cotton wool toy is a unique historical souvenir, a symbol of childhood for many generations, made using an ancient technique from cotton wool and paste. These toys are lightweight, soft, and feel warm to the touch. During the workshop, you'll have the opportunity to work with different types of cotton wool and create a unique Christmas tree toy.

Simple Cotton Wool Christmas Tree Ornament with a Face and No Frame: "Swaddling," Baby in a Cabbage Patch, Kitten in a Blanket, and "Miracle Bird":

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-7
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles
  • Number of People: 8-15
  • Cost: 2,000 rubles

Complex Cotton Wool Christmas Tree Ornament with a Face and Frame:

  • Age Limit: 10+
  • Duration: from 120 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-3
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles
Cotton wool Christmas tree toy

Ceramic products in the layer technique

You'll learn a new technique: making objects from a clay slab. We use a special machine called a rolling machine. The process is a bit like cutting fabric, except instead of clothing, you'll end up with a mug or plate, or perhaps you'd like to make a house, a box, or a bell...

  • Age Restriction: 6+
  • Duration: 20 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-4 guests
  • Cost: 1,200 rubles/guest
Ceramic products in the layer technique

Arkhangelsk roe deer

In the Russian provinces, especially in the hinterlands, gingerbread and cookies were not only a delicacy but also part of an ancient ritual tradition. The custom of baking ritual cookies and sculpting dough toys in the shapes of birds and animals has ancient Slavic roots, dating back to the pagan days when our ancestors believed that this would ensure timely rain, a warm summer, a good autumn harvest, and prosperity and health in the new year.

During this workshop, you will decorate one or three gingerbread cookies, which will become your amulets.

Age limit: 6+
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Number of people: 1-5
Cost: 500 rubles per gingerbread

Age limit: 6+
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Number of people: 1-5
Cost: 1,600 rubles per gingerbread

Arkhangelsk roe deer

Talisman made of stone

At the "Stone Talisman" workshop, you'll learn the basics of working with natural stone, one of the most ancient materials, mastered by our ancestors thousands of years ago. You'll create a polished talisman from a piece of granite, which will reveal its inner beauty in your hands.

  • Age Restriction: 7+
  • Duration: 40-50 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-2 people
  • Cost:
    • 2,000 rubles from ornamental stone
    • 3,500 rubles from semi-precious stone
Talisman made of stone

Lip balm

A natural lip balm made with beeswax and oils protects, nourishes, and softens the delicate skin of your lips. During this workshop, you'll not only make the balm but also choose a scent to suit your taste. You can even turn it into a lip gloss by adding mineral pigment.

  • Age Restriction: 5+
  • Duration: 40-60 minutes
  • Cost for 1-2 people: 2,500 rubles
  • Cost for 2-4 people: 2,000 rubles
Lip balm

Copper minting

Using special chisels, hammers, and patina, you can bring a fairytale animal or copper angel to life with an intricate design.

Products can be picked up immediately after the workshop.

  • Age Restriction: 7+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-3
  • Cost: 2,500 rubles
Copper minting

Painting with wool

Wool painting (also known as wool watercolor, warm paintings, or wool paintings) is a unique method of creating a canvas without the use of brushes, paints, pencils, or water. It involves layering unspun wool of varying tones and colors onto a fabric base.

The result is a highly artistic work made from natural materials. The finished work is framed with glass.

Dry Felting (painting):

  • Age Limit: 6+
  • Number of People: 1-4
  • **Cost Duration (30 minutes): 1,500 rubles/hour
  • **Cost Duration (60-120 minutes): 2,500 rubles/hour
  • **Cost Duration (60-180 minutes): 3,500 rubles/hour

Wet Felting (handbag):

  • Age Limit: 6+
  • Duration: 60-120 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-4
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles/hour
Painting with wool

Soap making

Using essential and nourishing oils, pigments, clays, herbs, and special molds, you will create your own unique and natural soap. Guests can pick up the finished soap the following day.

  • Age Restriction: 5+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-5
  • Cost: 2,500 rubles
Soap making

Creating a Tiffany-style stained glass ornament

The Tiffany technique is made from pieces of colored glass. Each piece is braided with copper, then tinned (soldered). This creates a miniature stained-glass decoration.

  • Age Restriction: 5+
  • Duration: 40-60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-10
  • Cost: 1,600 rubles
Creating a Tiffany-style stained glass ornament

Protective candles

Immerse yourself in the mystery of creating protective candles from real wax. Infuse meaning and emotion into these special candles with your own hands, using herbs and stones, whose meanings will be revealed to you by the artisan. As you sort through the herbs and smell the aromas of living beeswax and essential oils, connect with our shared past, when simple things held sacred significance.

"Magic Candles" made from beeswax with herbs and stones.

  • Age limit: 7+
  • Duration: 30-40 minutes
  • Cost for 1-2 guests: 2,100 rubles
  • Cost for 3-30 guests: 1,600 rubles

"The Mystery of the Candle" Large molded candle made from beeswax with herbs and stones.

  • Age limit: 7+
  • Duration: 45-60 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-20 people
  • Cost: 2,500 rubles

"Immersion in Traditional Candlemaking" candle making using three traditional techniques.

  • Age limit: 7+
  • Duration: 120 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-2 people
  • Cost: 5,800 rubles

"Scented Candles" - a soy candle in a jar, decorated with herbs and stones.

  • Age rating: 7+
  • Duration: 60-70 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-7 people
  • Cost: 3,500 rubles
Protective candles

Wood carving

Woodworking is one of the oldest crafts, and it remains popular and relevant today.

Masterclass: "Christmas Tree Ornament". This workshop is made from end-cut wood using the simplest wood carving technique – chipping.

  • Age Restriction: 5+ (for children only)
  • Duration: 45-60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-2 people
  • Cost: 2,000 rubles
Wood carving

Hot enamel

At this workshop, you'll learn how to apply hot enamel to copper, choose a jewelry design, and fire it in a muffle furnace. The end result of this workshop will be earrings or a pendant made using this technique.

  • Age limit: 10+
  • Duration: 90-120 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-2
  • Cost: 5,000 rubles
Hot enamel

Candles made from beeswax

Beeswax candles are an eco-friendly alternative to paraffin. When burning, beeswax not only emits a light honey aroma but also releases beneficial phytoncides.

In this workshop, you'll make a set of 3 candles. Essential oils can be added to enhance the natural scent of the beeswax.

  • Age Restriction: 5+
  • Duration: 30-60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-4
  • Cost: 1,400 rubles
Candles made from beeswax

Dream Catcher

According to popular belief, dreams come with spirits. A dreamcatcher is an ancient amulet designed to protect the sleep of a sleeping person. Its inner part is interwoven with a stylized web with a hole in the center, and the outer part of the circle is decorated with the feathers of an owl or other bird.

At this workshop, you will feel like a resident of the northern region and make a traditional amulet in which, like a web, bad dreams will become entangled, while good dreams will slip through to the sleeper.

  • Age limit: 6+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Cost for 1-2 people: 3,000 rubles
  • Cost for 3-5 people: 1,600 rubles
Dream Catcher

Caramel molding and blowing

At a caramel workshop, you'll feel like a true caramel maker. The youngest sweet lovers can make a rainbow lollipop or choose a magical character and bring them to life as a lollipop. You can also create more complex creations: sculpt a caramel flower or create an elegant piece using the most complex caramel technique – blowing (a blown apple or pear, or mulled wine bombs).

Master Class "Mulled Wine Bomb":

  • Age Limit: 7+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-5 people
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles

Master Class "Rainbow Lollipop":

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 15-25 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-4 people
  • Cost per 1 bomb: 800 rubles
  • Cost per 3 bombs: 1,500 rubles

Master Class "Blowing: Apple, Pear, Mushroom, Berries, etc":

  • Age Limit: 7+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-5
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles

Master class "Caramel Tulip":

  • Age limit: 7+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-5
  • Cost: 2,800 rubles

Master class "Fairytale Characters", "Cockerel":

  • Age limit: 5+
  • Duration: 30-40 minutes
  • Cost for 1-8 people: 1,800 rubles
  • Cost for 8-20 people: 1,000 rubles
Caramel molding and blowing

Painting on wood

Wooden Toy Coloring You can color any wooden toy (cat, matryoshka doll, spoon, teddy bear, etc.).

Age rating: 6+

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Number of people: 1-6 Cost: 2100 rubles/hour

Painting on wood

Pottery master class

Pottery is considered one of the oldest crafts on earth. Clay was believed to have healing and cosmetic properties.

The special magic of pottery lies in the fact that all four elements—earth, water, fire, and air—are involved in the making of the pottery.

Pottery Wheel Throwing without Firing:

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 20 minutes
  • Number of People: 1 person
  • Cost: 1,000 rubles

Pottery Wheel Throwing: Plain Clay with Firing (Pot, Plate, Mug):

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 20-40 minutes
  • Number of People: 1 person
  • Cost: 1,800 rubles

Pottery Wheel Throwing: Marble Technique:

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of People: 1 person
  • Cost: 4,100 rubles

Hand-Made Clay Sculpting with Firing: Various Shaped Tableware with Firing:

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 60-90 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-10 people
  • Cost: 1,800 rubles

Hand-made clay molding with firing: figurines of various shapes with firing:

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 60-90 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-10 people
  • Cost: 1,400 rubles

Turning the item on a pottery wheel without firing and without glaze (suitable for decorative use only):

  • Age Limit: 5+
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Number of People: 1-2 people
  • Cost: 1,500 rubles

Turning the item on a pottery wheel with subsequent firing and decorating (ready-to-use dishes):

  • Age limit: 5+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-2 people
  • Cost: 3,000 rubles

Hand-made clay molding (bell toys, dishes with lace and plant prints):

  • Age limit: 5+
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Number of people: 1-2 people
  • Cost: 2,500 rubles

Additional services are available in the workshop: decorating, firing, coating, painting, and milk firing.

Pottery master class

Bast weaving

You will create a charm or decoration for your home from a natural material. Bastwood, or the thin bark of a young linden tree, was used to weave bast shoes, utensils, and household items.

  • Age limit: 6+
  • Number of people: 1-4 people
  • Cost for 30 minutes: 1,500 rubles
  • Cost for 60 minutes: 2,500 rubles
  • Cost for 120 minutes: 3,500 rubles
Bast weaving
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