INTRODUCTION TO PAINTING SURFACES WITH VANESSA BRADLEY CASS ART ISLINGTON SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY DROP IN 12PM – 4PM FREE, MATERIALS PROVIDED, AGE 16+ Ever wondered what the difference is between gesso primer and rabbit […]
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Ice Sculpting Festival : Activities 2+ : Kids Masterclasses & Ice Chess 12+
This is something that my kids seem strangely drawn to, and to be fair trying to explain how people create carvings on a huge scale out of ice is a hard one to really get […]
Mariko Mori at the RA : Family Workshop : Out of Space : All ages
Family Studio: Out of Space 13 January 2013 Build your own stellar mobile and see it glow in our UV workshop. RA Learning Studio; 11am–2pm Check website for more details. Free; no booking required. Upon […]
Global Street Art : London Walls needed : Can You Help ?
We read this from our friends at The Londonist yesterday, we had to share. Let us know your thoughts, and we will happily pass them on. See the article here. Our friends at Global Street Art are […]
Create! Digital Cushion Design : V&A : 12.1.13 : 11-4pm: 13-15 yrs : £15
YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORKSHOP: Create exciting fabric designs using Photoshop and hand drawn techniques with a designer. Print and transfer your design onto fabric, then stitch a cushion to take home with you. Saturday, 12 January […]
Free Dance Workshop : One Youth Dance : Ages 8-12 : Sat 12.1.13 : Islington Arts Factory
One Youth | One Dance | One London. We work with 8 – 18 year old dancers living in and around London, with an aim to provide training and opportunities to those who need […]
Wallace Collection Family Event : A Day in the 17th Century : 12.1.13 : 11-430pm : All ages
A Day in the Seventeenth Century! Saturday 12th January, 2013 11:00am – 4:30pm : Price: £2.00 : Ages: All Ages Go double Dutch with an Asian twist for a free fun-filled day packed full of talks, performances […]
Cass Arts Islington : Fun With Fimo! : Saturday 12.1.13: Age 12+ (Free)
FUN WITH FIMO! CHRISTINE STANLEY CASS ART ISLINGTON SATURDAY 12TH JANUARY DROP IN 12PM – 4PM FREE, MATERIALS PROVIDED, ADULTS AND AGE 12+ Design and make creative jewellery with Fimo polymer clay. Take your red […]
Family Time : U5’s Tuesday Play : National Maritime Museum
Us bus drivers are always excited about a creative session available to the U5’s, and here at the National Maritime Museum , we have found just the thing for our young sailors, pirates and captains, […]
Stop The Bus : Weekend Workshop Fun : 5/6.Jan.13
Here at the bus depot, we realised that you might be a little distracted by the amount of paperwork looming … accounts, insurance renewals, and the big decision of wether to throw or freeze the […]
Architecture Courses at Sir John Soane’s Museum
Now here is what seems to be one of the best kept secrets in children’s museum workshops/ courses in London. It’s all happening at the Sir John Soane museum at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. They have […]
Puppetry Courses : The Little Angel Theatre : Ages 2+
Kids Courses and Classes Spring Term 2013Each term Little Angel has a range of puppetry clubs and classes for children aged 2 to 16. These clubs and classes take place on Saturday.CRAFTY KIDS (ages 2-5 […]
The Young Artists Courses at The Prince’s Drawing School (Ages 10-18)
The Young Artists Programme empower children, by opening the door to careers in art, design, science, and engineering. Serious, sustained drawing tuition for children is rarely available, so when it is, it often requires […]
Make These Gorgeous Bunting cards
Look at these super sweet cards, which are hand made by Kerry and her little angel Josh … and feature hereon her charming blog Ventura Upon Thames. I fell upon the blog in my usual post-bedtime, […]
Creative Club : Physical Theatre workshops : Stratford-Circus : Start Jan : 2+ and 5+
Creative Club at Stratford-Circus : Physical Theatre Workshop for children (with adults) Saturdays (for 10 weeks) from Sat 12 Jan – Sat 23 Mar PLEASE NOTE :(no class: Sat 23 Feb) Book here 9.30am – 10.30am Age: 2 – 4 […]
Make Do and Mend : Family Activity : Imperial War Museum : 28/29/30/31.12.12 : All ages
Get yourselves and your quilting efforts to the Imperial War Museum this week, before it closes on 2nd Jan for a 6 month re-development programme. ‘Make Do and Mend’ Quilt 1 December 2012 – 31 December 2012 […]
Rapunzel & buddies : Puppet Shows : Natural History : 28.12.12 : All ages
28 December 2012 12:00 – 12:30, 13:30 – 14:00 The stories of Rapunzel and Goldilocks never cease to enchant children of all ages. Come and enjoy these popular stories and meet the main characters […]
DIY Craft : Eat Me : Biscuits
A combo of some green icing, sweeties and bootlaces : from babycentre blog via pinterest Ginger girls from www.actuallymummy.co.uk via pinterest http://www.chefskid.com Mouth wateringly pretty from this lovely blog : buttercreamchantilly Cute and delicious, happy decorating xo Share […]
Make a 3D Paper Star with Krokotak
My little girl was given a couple of these by her nursery, her talented teacher made them, and apparently they are much easier to make than they look. I think they would make a lovely […]
Farewell to Christmas : Geffrye Museum : Event : 6.1.13 : All ages
Sunday 6 January 2013, 3.30 – 5.00pm. Free admission. Join us in the Geffrye’s own traditional burning of the holly and the ivy, with carol singing, stories about Epiphany and a taste of mulled wine and […]
Snow & Tell : Workshops : Science Museum : 27.12.12. : Age 5 +
Make it snow this Christmas! Join us for this workshop to make and decorate your own snowflakes and find out why no two snowflakes are the same. Times : 12pm & 3.15pm This workshop is […]
The Lost Prince : Storytelling : National Portrait Gallery : Ends 13 Jan : 3+
Storytelling for Families 10:30 or 13:30 Dress up, sing, laugh and have a fun time in our hands-on storytelling sessions every month. Discover the hidden stories behind some of our famous and not-so famous sitters […]
Cartier-Bresson inspired Family Workshop : Somerset House : 5.1.13 : All ages
Photo above, from the Andy Tillman workshop at Somerset House, 2012 Colouramas This just in!! Somerset House have just announced the first Free Family workshop of 2013… and it’s a good one! Inspired by the […]
Beginners Puppetry Course : BAC : 16+
Little Angel Theatre’s Introduction To Puppetry for Performance at BAC One-day practical course for beginners Battersea Arts Centre 11 Jan 2013 | 10am – 5pm £85 / £65 concs Join professional puppeteer and performer Oliver […]
Rainy Day Craft : Snow Globes : Not just for Christmas
Ingredients : A jar with lid : Enamel paint & Paintbrush : water hardy figurines : glue gun : water : glitter : glycerine (1) Paint The Lids Paint outside of jar lids (optional). They will need two coats. Leave to dry […]
Rainy Day Crafts : Divine Paper Snowflakes : Mini-eco
If you have time, order your graduation paper to emulate the above, or just get the kids or grown ups to scribble madly on plain paper and the cut. That’s it. Oh! and for those […]
Tickets Please at the London Transport Museum
These sessions give families the opportunity to handle objects from the Museum’s bus and uniform collections. Highlights include a Gibson ticket machine, bell punch and souvenir ticket to take home. Check out more details on […]
Yummy Eggnogg : Colour-in fairy gift tags
A book of 10 fairy gift tags to colour in and decorate your presents, perfect to stick in your handbag, and take out with the kids to keep them busy when you’re having that coffee […]
Rainy Day Craft : Salt Dough Decorations
Salt dough has always been a great craft material because it’s easy to make and you can create thousands of things of it. For Christmas snowflakes you’ll need some salt […]
Family workshops : V&A : Victorian Christmas Decorations : 29.12.12 : 4+
FAMILY EVENT: Create imaginative Victorian Christmas decorations. What: Family Events When: Sat 29 December 2012 –Sun 6 January 2013 Where: Sackler Centre 10.30-17.30 : Recommended for ages 4+ FREE – Drop in
Couture Drawing Course : Somerset House : 19.1.13 : 18+
Wow, what a New Year, you could be having … a whole 2 hours with the incredibly talented Jason Brooks, a live model or two, and a masterclass in couture drawing. GO GIRL and GO […]
Slanchogled : Camden Craft Shop : Craft workshops & a treasure of goodies …
We’ve been to a couple of these 1-hour long work shops (4-5pm) with the wonderful Jenny at Slanchogled in Chalk Farm just up from Camden Market. We cant recommend the workshops, or the shop […]
Lantern Show : V&A Childhood Museum : 29/30.12.12 : 3+
The Mystery of the Missing Koh-i-Noor Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 December, 10.30; 11.45; 13.30; 14.45 (1 Hour) Join Victorian sisters Anna and Bea for their annual family magic lantern show – an atmospheric tale of mystery […]
Loglike : Handmade craft kits & things of beauty
We had a belated birthday treat skating at Somerset house this week, and though we were tight on time, we sneaked into the Christmas Arcade, and for us, there were exciting moments fluttering by all […]
Make These Handprint Christmas Crafts
Here’s a gallery of ideas for you, if you’re getting that messy, you might as well try a few different ones. xo Thank you Pinterest
Make a Teddy Bear Sleeping Bag
I have fingers and toes crossed that this is an easy-ish project. It’s so damn cute (as my girlfriend Kimmy would say) that I can’t help thinking that it’s worth a go, and who knows […]
The Best Homemade Baking Gifts
Gingerbread gift jars found here 100g soft light brown sugar 1 tsp ginger ¼ tsp allspice ¼ tsp cinnamon 50g chopped crystallised ginger 125g plain flour ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda Mango & apple chutney found here […]
Imagine Children’s Festival : RFH : Feb 1/2 term 2013 : All Ages
Theatre : Talks from authors : Free events & Activities : Live music : Family workshops Here is a tip off for those of you that like a festival, and also like to plan ahead, […]
Join the Creative Folk at The School of Stuff in Dalston
As we are still writing christmas cards, and finding the odd father christmas hat, and teeny tiny broken off angel wings in the bottom of our decoration boxes here in the Lost Property office, we […]
Mistletoe Kisses & Magic mushrooms : A present from Fairyfolk
Yesterday here at the Creative Terminal Lost Property office (It’s Christmas so it’s very busy here as you can imagine), we heard a little fluttering noise around our heads, and then felt a little dizzy, […]
Drunk Reindeer : Crafts to love : 3+
OK, so it’s actually not the reindeer that will be drunk, more like tipsy after staring at you and the kids for the duration of christmas. But for what it’s worth, after you have collected […]
You will love this Finger Printing Art Set
Here in the Lost Property office of The Creative Bus Stop HQ, often get quite excited when we see a fun craft set that is hand-bag size. We are always on the look out […]
Make this Perfect Liberty Stocking
If you want, love and adore Liberty print as much as us Creative Mama’s and are feeling like a clever clog/stocking today, then get over to the Make […]
Make these 3 simple crafts with Krokotak
I recently found this fun Autumnal paper craft from a cool site called krokotak via The Crafty Crow. I had to get my head around the whole Krokotak world, and couldn’t quite make out it’s nationality (maybe Bulgarian?), […]
Make this Super Simple Hand Print Art
Butterfly Feet : sourced from Project Balancing Act via Pinterest E is for Explore! : Handprint calendar This has to be a potential winner for the grandparents christmas present list. All you have to do is do one print […]
You will Love these Colour-me-in T-shirts
Lollipop designs : organic t-shirt in drawstring bag containing 8 fabric crayons £22 online http://www.lollipopdesigns.co.uk
Things to Make with Clothes Pegs
Ok, I know that the wooden ones are harder to find these days, but with so many googlyish merchants at our finger tips, it can’t be that hard can it ? Here are a couple […]
Read this Q&A with Kate Lillie Author from Minieco Blog
This time, you must believe the hype. If you live in a semi-blog world like a few of us Mama’s then you will already know about the excitement about the world of Mini Eco. Everyday feels […]
Make This Bear Sleeping Bag
I have fingers and toes crossed that this is an easy-ish project. It just needs an adult and an assistant, and as it’s “…so damn cute” (as my girlfriend Kimmy would say) I can’t help thinking […]
Pop Up Performance : Nutcracker : V&A : Family Event : starts 29.12.12
What: Family Events When: Sat 29 December 2012 –Sun 6 January 2013 Where: V&A FREE DROP IN FAMILY EVENT: Watch the dance of ‘The Nutcracker’ on weekends or see a fun gallery play during the week. 11.00, 13.00 & […]
Now you too Can Dress Up Belle
Printed on substantial white card, with a fold out stand at the back. Belle comes with 4 adorable outfits printed on card and a snowflake winter scarf to keep Boo cosy – all you need […]
You will Love this Stitch It Dolly Kit
Make your own little dolly with this lovely Stitch-It Kit from The Little Experience! With a bow in her hair and a fancy frock, Dolly’s ready for a fun day out. She especially loves […]
Colour in Christmas Tablecloth : Folly
A tablecloth to keep your little angels busy at Christmas time. The ideal way to keep them occupied! A fab children’s gift, perfect stocking filler or table decoration for your christmas table. Can be folded […]
Make It : Paper Sculpture : V&A : 5+ : 31.12-4.1.13
What: Family Events When: Mon 31 December 2012 –Fri 4 January 2013 Where: Art Studio, Sackler Centre FAMILY EVENT: Create seasonal sculptures with Christmas cards. 10.30-12.30 & 14.00-16.00 Recommended for ages 5-12 Advance booking essential Children must be accompanied […]
Stitch Doodle : Pillowcase
doodle pillowcase The original and unique jotter pillowcase…capture light-bulb moments and late-night must-do lists, then wash and re-use! Great birthday, uni, new home gift for all ages (try adding a first message) or perfect […]
Design We Love : Little Puggle Shop : Themed craft boxes
Great for 1-2 children, 3 activities in each box The original Little Puggle box, bursting with fun activities for your children. The Surprise Original box is for those who can’t decide on a theme, the […]
Design We Love : Cardboard Teepee : Petit Artisan
Made from re-cycled cardboard, the teepee is a blank canvas for children to play, create & decorate using paint, collage, pens & crayons, limited only by imagination. Suitable for toddlers (from about 18 months / […]
We Make London : Workshops & Market : Southbank : 13-16.12.12
Join us from the 13TH – 16TH December at More London Christmas Market. More London is situated at the East side of the Southbank close to HMS Belfast and Hay’s Galleria. The Scoop is also […]
Kids Drawing workshops Age 10+ : Whitechapel Gallery : Start 19 Jan.13 : 10-15 yrs
These run on Saturdays starting 19 January, 10.30am – 12pm until Saturday 23 March, 10.30am – 12pm £50 for 5 sessions/£100 for 10 sessions. Popular weekend drawing classes led by artists for young people aged […]
Design Museum Kids Workshop : Amazing Adornments : 20.1.13 : 5+
AMAZING ADORNMENTS Sunday 20 January, 2 – 4.30pm £5 per child (ages 5 – 11) Inspired by the contemporary jewellery in Unexpected Pleasures, let your imagination run wild to create a piece of wearable design. Using […]
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