Welcome to Minikin Art Cafe, a colourful, family run pottery painting studio in Sale, Manchester. We've been helping families, friends, schools and businesses across Greater Manchester and Cheshire get creative since 2010.

It's simple: choose a piece of pottery, grab a coffee, and paint your pot however you like! No experience is needed. Our team is on hand with tips and ideas.

We then glaze and kiln fire your piece, and it's ready to collect in about two weeks.

Prices start at £16 and include paints, glazing and firing.

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What you can do at Minikin

• Pottery painting for all ages: a perfect rainy-day activity, date or family day out

• Baby hand & footprint keepsakes: clay impressions and framed prints to treasure

• Kids’ & teens’ birthday parties: Have a group of 12+, we have exclusive space for you to celebrate

• Grown-up painting evenings: birthdays, hen dos and baby showers, with your own wine and nibbles

• Workshops, events and team-building: themed sip & paint nights and corporate sessions

• Inclusive, calm sessions: a welcoming space for SEN children and adults

Why families love us

• Paints are water-based, lead- and toxin-free, and safe from birth

• There’s pram parking, baby changing and highchairs

• There’s parking beside the shop, plus Sainsbury’s opposite

• We’re rated 4.7★ by families on Google

• Our studio has even been used for filming by CBeebies, MTV and TLC

Just 10 minutes from Manchester city centre and the Trafford Centre, we’re easy to reach from Altrincham, Stretford, Urmston, Chorlton and the rest of Trafford.

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