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Dream and Make at Home

Dream and Make at Home

Courtesy Laura Phillimore (Dream & Make activity pack October 2020)

ACTIVITY PACK: IDEAS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

Enjoy Spike Island’s Dream and Make workshops from home!

Created by artist and educator Laura Phillimore, these activity packs are available to download for free so that you can dream and make art in your favourite spaces. Each resource is filled with ideas and inspiration for making artwork at home using simple materials. The activity packs are suitable for all ages, but especially well suited to 5–11 year olds

Dream and Make: ideas for young artists, playing with shapes Dream and Make: ideas for young artists, playing with shapes

Shapes Pack

Play with shape, colour and pattern, taking inspiration from the teachings of the Bauhaus design school.

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Nature Pack

In this pack we are getting outdoors and taking inspiration from nature. Collect, construct and create your own printmaking tools and brushes using natural and everyday materials and explore ways to make your own amazing artwork.

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Spaces Pack

In this pack you will explore ways to create and design your own amazing spaces. Along with ways to create structures using simple materials, you will explore and play with light as a tool for design.

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Hands Pack

Ideas for young artists to Dream and Make at home

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An illustration of a pencil drawing abstract shapes on a sheet of paper An illustration of a pencil drawing abstract shapes on a sheet of paper

Dream and Make Pack

Ideas for young artists to Dream and Make at home

Download your activity pack

LAURA PHILLIMORE

Laura Phillimore (b. London, 1984) works across a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture and collage and trained at Bristol Old Vic theatre school in Theatre and Costume design. Her diverse background in performance and theatre design, invites audiences into playful and often surreal visual narratives in her art work.

She is currently working on a number of community focussed projects and is founder of Dream and Make, exploring narrative led immersive art experiences for children and families in London and the South West.

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Exhibitions
Sriwhana Spong Ida-Ida (2019) Performance still, dancer Benjamin Ord, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Max McClure

Events

Open Studios
Photograph of the young people of Hartcliffe gathered in Leigh Woods.

Engagement

Artist Development
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, We Are Here Because of Those That Are Not (2020)

Digital Commissions

Online Library
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