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BRING THE FAMILY

Hobby store workshops dabble in arts and crafts

By Janice Page

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 07, 2012

At Dabblers, a hobby supply shop in Concord, they recently offered a “duct tape creativity’’ workshop, one of many activities that can pop up on an events calendar that includes knitting, whittling, decoupage, birdhouse building, even mastering remote-controlled helicopter tricks. The day we visited, the two offerings best suited to my 8-year-old daughter and her friend were workshops in Zentangle (structured doodling, really) and painting on glass.

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