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Make a paper-wrapped lantern to decorate your Christmas table or fireside this festive season.

Help the creative kids make their own greetings cards with glue and glitter.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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