Icons has teamed up with some of its partners to bring you activities to use with your group. From telling time with your hand made sand timer to creating your own stamp design, these activites are guaranteed to encourage creativity at any age!
Activities
Alice Poetry Competition
Enter our poetry competition and win some new books for your school library! Have your pupils choose an old rhyme or an old poem and create their own version. Winning entries will be published on our website, and one lucky winner chosen by writer Wendy Cope, will win over 100 children's books! For more info and an entry form, follow Alice Competition.
The Penny Black and Machin Stamp
Have your pupils investigate different printing techniques and design their own stamp while learning
about the similarities between the Penny Black and the Machin stamp. This activity has been created by the British Postal Museum & Archive.
Punch and Judy Show
Let the show begin! Here you'll find all the resources you need to help your group make their very own Punch and Judy shadow box puppet show. This activity ties in with the history curriculum Unit 3 and Design & Technology unit 2b for puppetry.
Make an Angel
Download this cut out activity, where you can create your desktop angel puppet! Created by artist Jo Lawrence, she uses photographic faces in her puppets to instil an innate identity, suggesting a past and an impied personal history.
