Enjoy this video of our director of education Erica leading you through a craft activity and be sure to watch Charlotte’s Web through our From the Vault
series!

Turn a family member or friend's timeless stories into an interactive work of art with help from New Victory Teaching Artist Marisol Rosa-Shaprio. Let the memories unfold!

Then practice getting into character and play both host and guest on your own podcast, inspired by the audio storytelling of ChelseaDee Harrison, in the fourth week of New Victory Arts Break: Creating with LabWorks Artists: https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-labworks-connect-to-chelseadee-harrison/

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New Victory Arts Break: Creating with LabWorks Artists

Get in on the fun and see how this season’s New Victory LabWorks Artists inspire creativity and community wherever they are. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to think like an artist and make something new.

Intermix it up with New Victory Teaching Artist Christina Eskridge and join together different shapes, colors and patterns to create a unique ensemble assemblage artwork in your New Victory Notebook.

Then join the members of South Africa’s Isango Ensemble as they take you on a tour of the Cape Town townships they call home, in this first part of New Victory Arts Break: Africa: https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-africa-discover/

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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

Learn how to make a paper flower garden in this easy craft tutorial for kids! Follow along as New Victory Teaching Artist Therese Schorn makes an entire garden full of flowers (and even a worm) out of simple craft materials from around the house.

Materials:
- construction paper (or regular white paper)
- scissors
- markers
- chopsticks (or pencils)
- tape
- stapler

Get theatrical with activities from Theater Sounds and Props week:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-theater-sounds-and-props-week/

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New Victory Arts Break: Discover Art Forms
Explore the arts at home! New Victory Arts Break offers ideas for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their online learning. Each week will focus on a different art form with a series of free activities for kids guided by New Victory Teaching Artists. Show or no show, New Victory is committed to bringing the performing arts to the widest possible audience, and inspiring you to make art, and make memories, together!

Ever wanted to make your own disco at home? Big Up Lighting Designer, Joe Hornsby is here to help you make that happen. Get creative in making your own Colour Wheel at home and send us a video of what you've made!

Even though Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High can’t perform Big Up in UK theatres this Spring, they're bringing you Big Up At Home.

Go to our Big Up at Home Playlist where you’ll find clips from the show and some fabulous at home activities created by the Big Up team. Big Up At Home is perfect for little people who want to be Big and Big people who might just have forgotten how to play.

They'll be adding content weekly so don’t forget to check in for more beatboxing, puppetry and music that you can create at home.

Why not send us a photo or a video of what you've created using our hashtag #BigUpatHome and don't forget to tag us!

@Theatre-Rites
@20StoriesHigh
info@theatre-rites.co.uk

It's time to get messy as we learn how to make our very own Glow in the Dark Jellyfish! Roll up those sleeves and let's get painting!!

Created by Sophie Hatton

Suitable for 7+

The Creative Play with Ditto series is in association with Ditto's Digital Adventures as part of the Arts Council England Emergency Response fund, created to entertain, inspire and educate audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.

DITTO are an award-winning family theatre company specialising in puppetry, movement and storytelling, with an aim to educate and inspire.

For more information, please visit: www.dittotheatrecompany.co.uk

Rhythm Play Express with Dave ‘Stickman’ Higgins.

Musical activities with 'Stickman' using paper to make music. Find some paper - newspaper, A4 paper or tissue paper, a crayon, a wooden spoon and saucepans and let's play and jam together.

Send us a comment and share your pics and videos of you dancing and playing along at www.facebook.com/SparkArtsFestival/

Stickman leaps out of the library bringing his hugely popular family, school and nursery sessions to our homes and classrooms.

Rhythm Play Express - Sounds, music, words and movement to feed the imagination. Develop new language and learn new words.

Feeling crafty? Join Sophie Cullinan to make amazing things from old newspapers.

This week Sophie makes a duck and pond, inspired by a story of a little duck who doesn't like to get wet. You can watch the story on YouTube here: bit.ly/3cRHX8V

All you need to make and create is some old newspaper, glue, tape, a pencil and some paints or crayons to add a splash of colour. LET’S MAKE DUCKS! And don’t forget to send us a comment and share pics and videos of your creations at www.facebook.com/SparkArtsFestival/

Sophie leaps out of the library and into your homes and classrooms. Bringing some of the amazing experiences you might have previously enjoyed in our family, schools and nursery sessions.

Click the bell in the top right to get notifications of new Spark at Home videos.

Paper Palace with Sophie Cullinan.

Join Sophie and make a heap of hats. This weeks video was inspired by Topiwala - a traditional Indian folk story about a hat seller and a tree full of cheeky hat-loving monkeys.

Send us a comment and share pics and videos of your creations at www.facebook.com/SparkArtsFestival/

Sophie leaps out of the library bringing her popular family, school and nursery sessions in to our homes and classrooms.

New episodes every Wednesday at 2pm - Click the bell in the top right to get notifications.

Music courtesy www.bensound