Time and Space to Grow
Image Credit: Beth Moseley A poem created and shared by artist and musician, Natalie Willis, in response to a collection of ‘magic moments’ drawings…
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Magic Acorns creates spaces where children, families and artists can flourish through the arts.
Guided by children’s innate curiosity and creativity, we’re helping to shape early years arts practice with moments of joy, connection, and generation.
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Everyone is welcome
At Magic Acorns, we create spaces for children to play, imagine, and grow. Every baby, child, parent, carer, and artist who steps through our doors…
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Our annual report 2025/26
This year has been one of growth, connection and extravagant ideas. At the heart of this year’s work was Building Our Belonging. For Magic Acorns,…
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Become a Magic Friend
Become a Magic Friend for £5 a month and help us to keep growing Magic Acorns all year round.
Your regular support helps us to provide free, high-quality creative experiences for babies, toddlers, families, and artists.
Children and families
We run free weekly sessions for 0-3s to explore materials, sound and objects, hosted by our specialist early years artists.
creative training
We deliver inspirational, cutting-edge creative professional development training to early years practitioners, artists and cultural organisations.
RESEARCH
We are creative researchers with an international reputation for boundary-pushing thinking in arts and education. Academic research, philosophy and thinking-with-children reflects and informs all our artistic work.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
We offer paid artistic opportunities, mentoring, and residencies to bring artists together with children and families to play, create and develop their practice.