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29 days ago
Family how-to: colour the RA Collection
Pick up some pencils and colour in Easter eggs, little lambs and spring flowers this holiday, using classic images from the RA Collection!
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2 months 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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4 months ago
Family how-to: print with fruit and vegetables
Make a rosy relief print for your valentine, cut a polar bear into a potato or roll some wrapping paper!
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6 months 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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6 months ago
Family how-to: collage Matisse 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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8 months 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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8 months 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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8 months 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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11 months 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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1 year 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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1 year ago
Family how-to: paint a protest poster
Inspired by avant-garde posters from the Russian revolution, here’s how you can collage, stencil or paint a protest poster to hold high above your head!
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> 1 year 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!