creative learning

Viviane Schwarz – Create a Character Video

I love author-illustrator Viviane Schwarz’s work. She’s brilliant at inventing crazy, engaging characters and in this video from the British Library website, she shows you one way of doing this! It’s a wonderfully accessible technique and great for anyone trying to create characters for their book, comic or animation. Have a go! 🙂

Make Your Own: Owl Mini-Egg Box :)

Make Your Own Owl Mini-Egg Box! An Easter-time activity. Click on the picture to go to the free downloadable pdf to make your own Eggbox Owl! 🙂

The Brilliant Book Trust

I’ve posted about the Book Trust’s resources earlier, but they are adding loads of great stuff to their site, including e-books and drawing tutorials with some of the best children’s illustrators. Have a look, link below! (Ooh, that sounds like something a pirate might shout!) 😉 https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/ And here’s a video tutorial from the BookContinue reading “The Brilliant Book Trust”

Polar Bears and the Northern Lights

Creative learning activity – ages 8 and up More bears! Well, they really are very cute and interesting! 🙂 I’ve been researching polar bears for some prints and drawings I’m making, and was excited to find this resource at Polar Bears International Here you can find out amazing facts about Polar Bears and their dailyContinue reading “Polar Bears and the Northern Lights”