Creative Activities for Kids and Families

Create an emoji of yourself to match your skin tone, hair texture, nose, mouth and eyes in this inclusive and fun arts and crafts workshop.

In two relaxed and easy-to-follow drawing classes, artist and TV Presenter Adebanji Alade teaches us how to sketch portraits and the view from your window.

Children can be Great Explorers of the Great Indoors with puppeteers HelenandJohn, who encourage little, inquisitive minds to explore Home. In this series of puppet-led shows, children can complete ch...

In these "Star In Your Own Show" sessions families can learn a routine from company dancers who have performed on Strictly Coming Dancing. There are three different sessions: one just for the kids, on...

Bounce Theatre have produced a series of free arts activity packs and innovative, creative challenges for families to do during the period of social distancing measures. Activities include redisc...

In Sequenza III for Voice composer Luciano Berio asks the singer to mutter, gasp, laugh, whine and go through a range of emotions from tense to dreamy to bewildered. Lockdown has also been a...

In this activity you will find unexpected sounds on your musical instrument and use them to create music - inspired by A Visible Trace by composer Rebecca Saunders.

Story Time with Lucy!

Origami is the art of paper folding. It comes from the Japanese ori meaning ‘folding’ and kami meaning ‘paper’. Using a series of folds and creases, an...

We’re going to have a go at creating our own stop-motion animations. Stop-motion animation is when photography is used to capture each frame, before moving the subjects for the next shot. This t...

Make your own snakes and ladders-style game.

Make your own colourful rainbow hangings in this step-by-step guide for kids and pay tribute to the wonderful NHS and fellow key workers.

 Make your own Pop Up Cards or books using recycled paper in this step-by-step guide.

Create your own paper camera with scrolling images in this easy step-by-step tutorial from our Learning team. This would have been one of our drop-in workshops over the summer holidays, had we not had...

Put those extra toilet roll tubes to good use by making your very own feathery friend in this easy step-by-step tutorial for kids.

On a walk through Windmill Wood at Bursledon Windmill, there are all kinds of trees to spot and discover. While you're out for a walk, use our tree-iffic spotter trail to see which ones you can f...

Families craving ways to get creative at home? Here’s food for thought, with an inspiring art tutorial from mouth and foot painting artist Tom Yendell.

Create your own spinning animation device that produces the illusion of motion!

Learn how to use straws and sticks to make wheels turn - create your own car that can roll smoothly along! 

A cross between Twister and hopscotch, this easy-to-make game is great fun for the whole family!