Spooky Halloween Lanterns

 

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!

Approximate run time: 15 minutes

Presenter: Laura and Amelie Kemshall

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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!

Art T-shirt

Grab a plain t-shirt and some pens and customise it with your own drawn design!

How to Draw People

 

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

Approximate run time: 11 minutes

Presenter: Laura and Amelie Kemshall

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.

Draw Your Dinner

 

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.

Approximate run time: 9 minutes

Presenter: Laura and Amelie Kemshall

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.

Funny Faces

 

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

Approximate run time: 8 minutes

Presenter: Laura and Amelie Kemshall

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.

Paint Big!

Have fun and paint big! I challenged Amelie to paint something really long with lots of colour and pattern.

Sew a Simple Skirt

 

I’m teaching Amelie to sew with the sewing machine! Work along with us to sew a simple skirt. This is a great project for older children who can work with their grown-up as a team to make a wearable project. The skirt is quick to sew and you can let your child do as much or as little of the steps as you feel is appropriate for their experience and ability. Please be careful and supervise at all times.

To join in you’ll need:

Approximately 1 metre of lightweight fabric. We used a printed polycotton.
Matching sewing thread
Elastic
Sewing machine
Sewing kit – scissors, tape measure, pins, safety pins.

Approximate run time: 20 minutes

Presenter: Laura and Amelie Kemshall

Learn to use a sewing machine by making a simple skirt that you can wear all summer.

Creative Kids Art Kit

A quick overview of what your children might need as they work through the activities.

Big Leaf, Little Leaf

Forest School at home – get the little ones on a leaf hunt and record it in their sketchbook or art journal.

Colour Mixing Rainbows

 

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!

 

Approximate run time: 12 minutes

Presenter: Laura and Amelie Kemshall

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.

Pottery Painting!

Keeping the young and not so young entertained with pottery painting.