Summer Holiday Activities
Date Created: 11th Aug 2022
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Summer holidays are in full swing, and we’ve rounded up our favourite exciting arts, culture, and heritage activities to keep the children entertained.
Puppetry Workshops with Touched Theatre
We have worked with Touched Theatre as part of HM70 Jubilee celebrations to produce a unique puppetry workshop that you and your children can access online and use to stage performances. The collection of videos and PDF resources explore how different communities around the world use food and creativity to mark special occasions, reflecting the role that they have played through the Queen’s reign.
Links to all video and accompanying PDF resources can be found here: Feast! Puppetry Workshops – Artswork
Space Cadets ONLINE – Summer Sessions – The National Space Centre
Is your little one interested in science and prefer something to do from the comfort of their own home?
Space Cadets ONLINE – Summer 60-minute sessions on Aliens and Astronaut Training are the perfect opportunity; including talks, craft ideas, downloadable resources and engaging content to support home learning, they cost just £4 per household.
Click to find out more: https://spacecentre.co.uk/event/space-cadets-online
The Pompey Sculpture Trail
Portsmouth Music Hub’s brand-new cultural initiative, The Pompey Sculpture Trail takes you on a cultural journey across the city with songs, facts, films, and activities as you discover some of Portsmouth’s cultural landmarks. It features 11 toe-tapping original songs composed by Portsmouth Music Hub’s composition team that encourages learning while singing and exploring.
Their website not only features a map, but also fact and activity sheets to enrich your journey.
The Pompey Sculpture Trail — Portsmouth Music Hub
Vegetable Orchestra Resource
In 2020, we collaborated with SoCo Music Project to host an exclusive Vegetable Orchestra workshop for staff, children and young people from South East settings on their Artsmark journey. This summer you could create carrot whistles, pepper shakers and courgette castanets, whilst learning about interesting world instruments made from organic matter, just like the soothing sound of bamboo panpipes.
View resources and accompanying video tutorials here: Vegetable Orchestra Teacher’s Resource – Artswork
African Activities Bead Making Workshop
As part of our Winter HAF programme 2021, Kwame, from African Activities, shows you how to make African bead jewellery in a video workshop on our YouTube channel. Using basic and easily sourced materials, you can have a go at making some fantastic bead jewellery – they make the perfect homemade gift from your young ones!
View the workshop on YouTube here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zUoNBgW4Dc
Adinkra Printing Video Workshop
Led by Kwame from African Activities, connect with other cultures and learn of practises from outside of individual societies and traditions with Adinkra printing. The videos not only walk you through how to make your prints, but also what each symbol means to help develop the understanding of your creations.
View the workshop on YouTube here.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMVdK9TjnXIvzKzzqtZXPWYeehYSLYvJP
Lyric Writing Resource
In 2020, we collaborated with the Young Urban Arts Foundation to host an exclusive performance and lyric-writing workshop. This resource, and the accompanying set of videos, guide you through lyric writing and performance at a range of different key stages – a perfect activity for any budding young writers in your household.
Lyric Writing Teacher’s Resource – Artswork
Dreammachine
Dreamachine, is a one-of-a-kind programme setting the minds of the UK alight this summer, inviting you on a magical journey to explore the extraordinary potential of your mind.
Children can engage with the themes of Dreamachine by taking part in a range of creative and fun at home activities this summer.
Whether it’s exploring some of ‘Life’s Big Questions’ with Martin Dougan (CBBC Newsround), designing mind boggling illusions or carrying out scientific investigations to test the senses, there’s something for all ages in this series of at home activity ideas!
https://dreamachine.world/for-families/
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