CAROLS, CRAFTING, CONCERTS AND CREATIVITY

We had the best Twelve Days of Creative Christmas Tour, travelling around the UK, running workshops and live streaming school plays, carols and concerts.

All possible thanks to support from Edge Foundation and Hipgnosis Songs, who suported this and our #Ignite22 Year, and of course our support from DCMS so we are #HereForCulture.

All the live streams are below

So cancel Netflix, sit back and enjoy the creativity in our school communities…

LIVE FROM THE WELSH VALLEYS

Carols with Deri Primary School on our #LetsCreateXmas22 UK Tour.

Wales has implemented a new curriculum grounded in creativity, community and collaboraiton and it’s evident here. We had a great time with this wonderful school as you can see below.

PLEASE HELP US : GIVE THE GREATEST GIFT

The world’s favourite toy is a cardboard box, so the greatest gift has to be one of our Art Of Cardboard kits to help your kids make the best cardboard models.

Do support our work by buying them here.

LAST XMAS ORDERS BY WEDS 21st DEC

Give the gift of creativity this Christmas - treat a child or surprise a school with one of our Art Of Cardboard sets which consist of an ingenious Scruw that holds cardboard together to make epic models, toys and sculptures without glue or tape.

Pick your set

If you order after a school visit, let us know and we won’t charge postage. We’ll let you know if you can collect form the school office once you have paid.

WANT TO MAKE A DONATION?

If you don’t want to buy anything but would like to support our work, with a quid or more, please do chip into the #OurMillion22 appeal here to help us Raise a Million Quids to Inspire a Million Kids by putting 22 of our Trucks on the road next year.

See below.

Take your pick from three events below in these Twelve Days of Creative Christmas below

CAROLS: FROM THE HEART OF HEREFORDSHIRE

Due to a last minute change of plan our tour find itself in Herefordshire and will be live streaming the end of term carol service for St Peter’s Primary, Bromyard from their parish church.

CONCERT: JINGLE BELL ROCK IN LEEDS

Christmas isn’t Christmas without a visit to Parklands Primary on the Seacroft Estate in Leeds with our old friend Mr Dyson, his epic team and the community there.

As it’s his last Christmas at the shcool what better send off than a full blown rock concert with staff and chidlren performing LIVE (no backing tracks here - it’s not Glasto!)

And what better way to inspire our children, our communities and our contry to aim higher than high than Mr Goodwin’s band Tytania joining the children.

See a snap shot below and the live streams below that:

Meet Mr Dyson above

We had two performances, watch the live streams below.

NATIVITY - THE STORY RETOLD ON TEESSIDE

As part of our Northern Tour we were delighted to be asked to go and live stream the Nativity of Galley Hill Primary at The Parish Church of St Nicholas, Guisborough on Teesside, after we visited them at the start of the yer on our #MissionToMars22 UK Tour

A CARDBOARD XMAS IN YORKSHIRE

What a great week we had visiting schools across Yorkshire with our Lets Create Xmas 22 Tour and what a great chat we had wtih BBC Sheffield as you can see below:

ART OF ROCKETS

Possibly the most exciting and inspiring present anyone will ever get or give, a real dynamite rocket!

This rocket takes a few minutes to build and is even easier to launch and will fly to 700 feet (225m) before descending on a parachute to go again.

While fun and safe if used in conjunction with the instructions supplied, THIS IS NOT A TOY and must not be used by anyone under the age of 12 without adult supervision.

Buy here for £49.95 (inc one B6.4 motor and dynamite secure courier delivery)

Seriously consider buying a few extra rocket motors and fire proof recovery wadding whle you are at it.

I LOVE ART

Join the revolution and tell everyone. Design an #ILoveArtlogo and we’ll print it on a t-shirt.

Order here

THE UK TOUR

With the support of the Edge Foundation, from Tuesday 6th December we’re hitting the road and looking for eleven schools to visit for free, starting with our old friends at Parklands Primary School on the Seacroft Estate in Leeds, led by Chris Dyson, see the film below of the fun we unleased there last year when we made a cardboard flying saucer, inspired by the John Lewis ad.

The three greatest gifts?

Creativity isn’t just for Christmas, and we talk to children and communities about The Three Greatest Gifts all year but what are they:

We feel all parents, carers and communities should be doing all they can to give our children The Three Greatest Gifts, and don’t worry abot the cost, they are as good as FREE and yet PRICELESS:

• TIME - Quality, undistracted time with children, to read together for just ten minutes a day, to play or simply to be

• STORIES - Exposure to exciting and interestng things at museums, events, places to build what the experts call ‘cultural capital’

• ART - helping find that thing we love doing, that one day might help us make some money, some friends and the world a better place.

And our #LetsCreateXmas22 tour is all about just that, and inspiring all our chidlren to aim higher than high with them.

This half day session consists of the following:

• All School Assembly - talking about the Three Greatest Gifts and the improtance of reading and creativity, all live streamed into the community to send the message home

• Creative Activities - cardboard modelling, rocket making and creative coding for three classes

• A Real Rocket Launch - a community finale to inspire everyone to aim higher than high

All fully insured, risk assessed and with full enhanced DBS

For a small additional charge we can stay the day so that every child in every class gets to engage in the three activities.

BOOK YOUR SCHOOL IN FOR A FREE SESSION NOW

We’re looking for just eleven schools, anywhere in the UK, who’d like this before Christmas and if you aren’t chosen, don’t worry as we may continue it after Christmas in the interest is there to literally blast off the New Year.

What are you waiting for?

Sign up here now and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible

Mean while here’s what happened after we saw the John Lewis Christmas ad featrting Sir Elton John four years ago and how it changed a little Yorkshire lad’s life when he joined us in Parliament.