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Pop Out Butterfly
This 2 minute craft is about the Butterfly life cycle! – Tissue tube– Leaf colour tissue or scraps of paper– PVA glue– Scissors – Lolly Sticks– Felt tip pens– Eyes (or something to make them!) – Paper or thin card– String/yarn – Drinking straw– Coloured tissue or pens The Caterpillar crawls into the Chrysalis, and…
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Silly Animal Consequences
Silly animal consequences is both a craft and a game!
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Crochet a Rainbow
Learn how to crochet a rainbow with our video! Pattern is in UK crochet terms, remember to cut and tie off ends as you go! We used a 4mm hook and DK weight yarn. There are written instructions in the the video and below. Small amounts of DK yarn in violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow…
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Twiddle Muffs and Knitted Figures
Crafts for the Community! Sandy Hathaway, a member of Bath Central Library’s Fibre Arts group Bath Stitch Social, has shared with us her latest community minded make – Twiddle Muffs! They are sleeves that are worn over a wrist that have lots of different textures and added things to feel and play with. Designed for…
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Turn Yourself Into a Bookmark!
This 2 minute craft tells you how to make a bookmark of yourself! 1. Glue your picture to a piece of card/cereal box and cut around yourself 2. Draw, colour (or use coloured card) and cut out a balloon shape on another piece of card 3. Sellotape one end of the string/ribbon to the back…
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Printable Activities
We have a host of printable activities to encourage creativity and have fun! Click an image to download the file.
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Jeff Dowson: Crime in the West Country
The Jack Shepherd private eye stories are set in Bristol. They are contemporary, tough, and issue driven. Jack takes on clients in distress, in danger, sad, angry, hurt… They come to him when all other avenues have closed. He is the keeper of The Last Chance Saloon. Crime is such a flexible genre. It’s about…
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Get Creative – and Reimagine the Library
Dr James Randall – who has worked on Bath’s annual Forest of Imagination creative education event and lives in the city – writes about creativity and imagination in the library. How does creativity begin? With a feeling? An image? We all have different inspirations, but try starting with a book. Any book. Maybe a library…
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Lucia Vinyard: Boys In Mind/Girls Mind Too
My name is Lucia Vinyard and I am writing this article on behalf of Boys in Mind/Girls Mind Too, a youth led organisation based in B&NES. I am 19 years old and I am a second year drama school student studying at Rose Bruford. I got involved with BIM/GMT in summer after getting involved in…
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Holocaust Memorial Day by David Musgrave of Bath Inter Faith Group
Bath Inter Faith Group partnered with B&NES Council in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day with an event in the Guildhall on Thursday 26 January. The day marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945. As the last generation of Holocaust survivors disappears, the need to remember and draw lessons from those…