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Family how-to sculpture

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1 month ago

Family how-to: make a recycled sculpture

Be inspired by the work of Phyllida Barlow RA and create a sustainable sculpture from reusable household rubbish. Build it, play around with decoration and then recycle the parts.

What do you notice about the different brushes?

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2 months ago

Family how-to: make your own paintbrush

Venture outside to hunt for dry leaves, flowers and twigs so you can construct your own brushes and play with mark-making using natural, foraged materials.

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3 months ago

Family how-to: adapt your art tools

Tailor art activities to your needs by adapting the tools you use. Follow our step-by-step way to extend or improve the grip on your pencils, paintbrushes and pens.

Family how-to: make a Christmas cookie cutter print- header large

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6 months ago

Family how-to: make a Christmas cookie cutter print

Why not put your stamp on the festive season with our cookie cutter Christmas prints and Funky Foam reliefs?

Sir John Gilbert RA, Study of a skull

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8 months ago

Family how-to: carve a Halloween pumpkin inspired by the RA Collection

Have a go at using a stencil to carve a pumpkin this Halloween. These stencils are all inspired by artworks from the RA Collection. Download it and get crafting!

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9 months ago

Family how-to: make a stop-frame animation

Become a film director for the day and create your very own cartoon animation inspired by artworks from the RA Collection.

John Frederick Lewis RA, Nero at Exeter 'Change

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1 year ago

Family how-to: colour the RA Collection

Have a go at colouring different artworks from the RA Collection! Download a colouring sheet and crack out your pencils and pens.

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> 1 year ago

Family how-to: photograph, paint or collage a portrait

Be inspired by a painting of Queen Henrietta Maria and make art about the ladies in your life! Try our two activities: print out and paint a portrait or collage the pieces of a portrait puzzle.
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> 1 year ago

Family how-to: print with fruit and vegetables

Print a posy of springtime roses, a potato polar bear or some birthday wrapping paper.

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> 1 year ago

Family how-to: use melted crayons to decorate a flag

Melt and grate crayons in our take on Jasper Johns’s encaustic paintings, working with wax to design a flag that represents you.

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> 1 year ago

Family how-to: collage colourful magnets

Forage for some autumnal inspiration, then get cutting and sticking to create moveable magnetic cut-outs that you can put on the front of your fridge.

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< 2 years ago

Family how-to: see the world through coloured goggles

Explore a whole world of colour through these DIY plastic goggles.

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< 2 years ago

Family how-to: make a colour wheel

Learn to mix paint like a pro with this quick colour-wheel activity.

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< 2 years ago

Family how-to: exploring colour with slime

Play, experiment and explore how colours mix together by making this sensory slime!

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2 years ago

Family how-to: make a paint-splattering spinning top

Stuck for something to do? Learn how to make a spinning top that will spin and spin, splattering paint to create multiple masterpieces.

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2 years ago

Family how-to: make a relief print

Inspired by the London Original Print Fair, here’s how to scribble, scratch and carve your design into a piece of polystyrene to make a relief print like a pro!

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> 2 years ago

Family how-to: paint a protest poster

Joining a protest? Here’s how you can collage, stencil or paint a protest poster to hold high above your head!

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> 2 years ago

Family how-to: make a drawing sculpture-bot

Inspired by Abstract Expressionist sculpture, here’s how you can make a sculptural robot that can move around and draw all by itself!