January 8, 2021 12:57 pm
Young Design Museum
Never short of ways to bring design into the home, London’s Design Museum has a specific area on its website for kids and their parents. Here you’ll find creative resources like worksheets and lesson plans, as well as prompts for hands-on making using objects you can find around the home.
The museum’s Create and Make at Home activity series in particular could help make the coming weeks (or months) in lockdown more engaging – each week, a new task is set which comes complete with a video tutorial. Previous activities include making musical instruments like castanets and banjos out of cardboard, and all past tasks are available to browse on the Young Design Museum website.
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Young Design Museum has plenty to offer creatively-minded kids during lockdown as a break of addition to homeschooling. On offer this week is a worksheet with cut-out templates to colour in and build your own high street. There are also videos on DIY musical instruments (think castanets and banjos). Lesson plans are also available for a variety of ages, ranging from rethinking rubbish to running your own ethical and sustainable company.