Each box is packed full of creative projects, educational artist inspiration, and quality art materials!
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This art box will be a year-long creative journey for you in crazy costume-making! Including ELEVEN costume ideas, from inspiration for Book Day (with wonderful book wings and a pages tutu), to ideas for Halloween (with a creepy cape and a spider headdress). From costumes for Easter (with a crazy bonnet hairband and a recycled flower pin), to ideas for parties and carnivals, including crowns, necklaces, masks and bags! Be creative and use this art box and your imagination to express yourself through wild and wonderful outfits!
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In this art box we look at three artists who have been particularly fascinated by mankind’s discoveries in outer space. Be inspired to create amazing astronauts, a diorama of abstract “planet” circles and arty aliens, and mosaic-like painted rockets blasting into space. Proudly created in partnership with The Science Museum.
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In this art box we delve in depth into how a variety of artists have used the many hues and tones of blue in their artwork. And we look at different types of art materials (in shades of blue! – from Earth Paints and acrylics to oil pastels) and how we can use them to create crashing wave dioramas, abstract collages, painted swimming pools and blue chairs!
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Both art and music allow the artist to express their feelings and experiences... In this art box we look at how a variety of artists old and new portray musical instruments and musicians; at how they interpret sound in visual form; at how they use colour and music in tandem in their work; and finally at how some artists even designed album covers for bands and musicians!
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Love them or hate them, creepy crawlies are everywhere! In these creative projects, inspired by artists old and new, we look at how to create a wall of recycled bugs, painted butterflies, snail drawings and shapes, spider collages, dragonfly bug jars, cricket patterns and finally moth wings you can wear.
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The Wild Woods box looks at the majestic and magical beauty of our forests with art projects inspired by artists old and new. Learn all about trees, leaves and woodland creatures through art projects exploring collage, painting, multi-media and sculpture techniques. Extra activities also include a large multi-media painted forest, and going into the woods to design Land Art of your own!
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A unique present tells the recipient that they are worthy of the time, patience and effort it has taken to create! This art box celebrates and encourages homemade gift-giving, by guiding you to create four different gorgeous gifts: a clay candle stick, a papier-mâché bowl, an embroidery hoop painted fabric hanging and a printed pencil case.
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In this box we look at artists and art styles that were influenced by the mystical and the magical: make a spell-book and a magical wand; concoct fabulous potions; get sparkly with spiders’ webs; and make your own owls and dragons!
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Animals, both real and imagined, have long been a favourite subject in art. Part of their beauty lies in their versatility as subjects: they are often used as symbols, but they can also be majestic creative muses in their own right. In this box we look at creatures big and small, from wild animals to farm animals, from bugs and butterflies to fish.
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The types of love that we feel are almost as varied as the people who experience it, as is the art that explores the subject. From Greek mythology to Hindu motifs, cultures and artists around the world have used a range of symbols to represent love in art, and we look at a few of these in the art projects in this box- for example, the hug, the kiss, the heart and the dance!
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Create your very own tea party with colourful cardboard cakes, or deliver a fast-food take-away with a Plaster of Paris burger! This box is inspired by artists past and present who have used food in all its different forms as their muse! It is filled with creative ideas that will give you a taste of how food is used in art, from printing with apples to still life paintings and collaged fruit faces.
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In this box, we look at how a number of very different artists have worked with textiles, from printing and quilt-making, to batik and the creation of textile sculptures. We also glance at different dyeing processes, from the use of natural botanical dyes and the Japanese technique of shibori, to tie dye!
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This art box includes creative projects for Teens and pre-Teens to express themselves through art. It is packed full of projects exploring the theme of Identity, be that through our face (in portraiture), our body or our varied emotions.