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Learn all about the artist, Judy Joel, and her painting Preparations for Christmas.

Information and activity ideas based on the Little Callestock Farm painting by Sonia Callaway.

Information and activity ideas based on Bicycling by Randall Henrie.

Information and activity ideas based on Add Hox: Spaceman Scientist by Cleo Mussi.

Use this shell template for simple sewing projects. Children can cut out the shell shape, draw round it onto felt with a felt-tipped pen and cut out their felt shell for sewing.

Sewing with embroidery silks onto felt gives great results for beginner sewing projects. Use the techniques demonstrated to create simple shell cushions. 

Hone those critical thinking skills! We learn about artist Matthew Roby and his work Walkies, Rex! and investigate looking after your own mythical creature.

Learn about children’s book illustrator Emma Chichester Clark and find exciting ways to use traditional tales to look at sentence construction.

Use The Christmas Elf as a festive story starter or see how many woodland creatures children can spy in this adorable poster (©StoryWorld – illustrated by Tomislav Tomic.). 

Look back at two extraordinary women, mathematician, Ada Lovelace and her portrait painter Victorian artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter.