Arts & Crafts

This is an activity to close a session that reinforces the personal qualities required to be a good friend, building confidence and increasing self-esteem.

This is a teambuilding activity that uses basic craft skills to develop a visual representation of ‘friendship’.

This icebreaker encourages young people to discuss their feelings and emotions
through colour.

Ever wondered how to make a piñata? Follow these instructions to make a simple piñata for young people
to enjoy.

This is an effective way of creating an image of young people’s community that needs little artistic ability. Displayed together the pictures can create a powerful image of young people’s perceptions of where they live.

This is a creative activity that will take several months to complete, where young people work together to create a giant portrait, whilst raising money too!

This is a low-cost creative activity where young people design a ‘tile’ in colour to represent themselves.

This project creates skull design prints to celebrate the Mexican holiday The Day of the Dead, (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) using polystyrene printing blocks. This session could also be used for Halloween or the printing process adapted for any theme.

This project uses recycled cardboard to make printing blocks. These are then used to create a group collage to raise awareness of environmental issues.

The aim of this session is to create a street scene that the whole group has participated in making over several weeks. This can be a ‘real’ street or the chance to create an ideal community.