Make your own spooky Halloween lantern from a jam jar, black paper and tissue scraps. Cut your favourite Halloween motifs or copy ours from the worksheet provided. Spiders, ghosts, pumpkins, cats, witches hats and bats! Pop in an electric tea light and you’ll be all set for trick or treat adventures!

Your family, friends and yourself are probably all people that you want to include in your drawings, but drawing figures can be one of the trickiest things to do. Learn how to draw people more accurately by breaking the body into simple geometric shapes.

To join in you’ll need:

Sketchbook/art journal/home school diary/sheets of paper
Drawing media such as pens, pencils, pencil crayons

Is breakfast, lunch or dinner the highlight of your day? Draw your favourite meal!

To join in you’ll need:

Sketchbook/art journal/home school diary/sheets of paper
Drawing media such as pens, pencils, pencil crayons
If you want to draw around them, you’ll need a plate, knife and fork.

Bored of seeing the same old faces everyday? Create a crowd of new ones! We’re using easy collage and some drawing to make these fun faces.

To join in you’ll need:

Magazines, fashion and beauty ones are often best, you’re looking for large faces with features you can cut out.
Glue
Scissors
Sketchbook/art journal/home school diary/sheets of paper
Drawing media such as pens, pencils, pencil crayons

Learn about colour mixing and paint a beautiful rainbow. We’ll talk about primary and secondary colours and how to mix them, then how to paint a colourful rainbow on paper.

To join in you’ll need:

Paper
Paint
Palette
Brush
Water pot
Pencil
Paper towel

Make sure your little one has their old clothes and an apron on. Cover the table with plastic or newspaper if they are messy workers!