home education

make your own santa shadow puppet show!

Here’s a lovely simple activity to download, perfect for keeping you, and your friends and family entertained for long dark nights. Learn how to make your own shadow Santa puppet and set up a shadow “screen” to perform on.

Make Your Own Comic Workshop

Fresh up on my Free Downloads page, a Make Your Own Comic Workshop! Click on picture below to download, and send me the results please! I would love to see your work, and I will post it here on my website! 🙂

Harry Potter at Home

OK, so this is pretty cool for all you HP fans out there, JK Rowling has launched a Harry Potter at Home Hub with games and activities to keep our brains and hands busy during this lockdown. To enrol at Hogwarts you have to answer some very interesting questions! I am now officially a HufflepuffContinue reading “Harry Potter at Home”

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”

Samurai Warrior Costume

Here’s another make you can do at home. To find out how to make it, go to to my DIY page and download the instructions there. Have fun! Make Your Own Samurai Warrior Costume! Easy make. Some help with stapling and cutting from a grownup required. Suitable for ages 5 and up. IfContinue reading “Samurai Warrior Costume”