Even more resources to help families stay fit, happy and educated while schools are closed, from ways to help our NHS heroes, to art and writing competitions, model making tips from Aardman Animation and even the chance to have cans of wine delivered to your home!
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Staff and students at Hayesfield School in Bath have teamed up with the Facebook group Scrubs For The NHS to call on families across the region to help them to produce laundry bags for NHS workers at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. So far this wonderful effort has resulted in an amazing 463 bags being produced – but more are needed.
The team has produced a Youtube video, which you can see by clicking here, which gives full instructions on how to make the bags. In addition, there is also a GoFundMe page for raising money for fabric and threads, which can be found here.
For anyone who is able to help, it is important that you do not deliver the bags directly to the hospital. If you would like to make a donation, please contact Cerys at email hidden; JavaScript is required who will explain how and where to donate your bags.
Calling all young writers! Keynsham Rotary has extended the deadline of its Keynsham Rotary Young Writers Competition 2020 until 30 April. The competition is split into four age group entries – Years 3 & 4, Years 5 & 6, KS3 and KS4.
For the entry form and details go to www.keynshamrotary.org, click on menu, and future events.
Bath will celebrate UNESCO World Heritage Day on Saturday 18 April with a host of virtual activities that people can join in with at home.
Families can find out why Bath is a World Heritage Site and have a go at fun art and craft activities and experiments on the City of Bath World Heritage website, www.bathworldheritage.org.uk/learning.
And grown-ups can test their World Heritage knowledge with themed quizzes on the website and on the Twitter page at @BathWHS
You know that feeling when you get to the end of a day of teaching, cleaning, cooking, stopping arguments and finding a solution to the latest demand of “I’m bored mum!”? Well that’s when you need a bit of you time, and those thoughtful people at Canned Wine Co have the perfect answer – cans of wine delivered directly to your door!
This newly-launched, Bath-based company supply a choice of white or red wine in a fully recyclable can that means you don’t end up leaving half a bottle unused.
Priced at £16.99 for three cans of white or red, or £33.49 for a mixed case of six cans, you can order your Friday (or Thursday, or Wednesday, or Tuesday…) evening treat here
We cannot wait to start colouring the amazing Bath Colouring Poster that has just arrived from The Art Cohort in Bath! This ma-hoo-sive A1-sized poster is now available on thicker material, which makes it ideal to be rolled up for storage and then, once it’s finished, mounted on the wall as a great family work of art.
The Bath Colouring Poster costs £12 and is available from The Art Cohort by clicking here
Club Kowalah is doing its bit to help keep children at home active and happy. Every morning it will post a challenge that might range from drawing, to making something to solving a puzzle! Children are then asked to send back their projects for the chance to win stickers and prizes.
Club Kowalah is free and available to all. To take part, subscribe here
This is fantastic from The Farm Camp‘s own Wild Times in Lockdown’ IGTV series for kids and adults… In the first presentation, here’s a plasticine animation workshop with Jim Parkyn from Aardman Animations showing you how to make your own plasticine sheep…
Join in the modelling here
We just love this…
To help people who are struggling right now, the very lovely people at Wiltshire Rural Music are offering ‘musical phone calls’ to people of all ages who might feel the benefit of having a chat, listening to some live music and being taken out of the loneliness of their average day.
“I just made our first call and sang a Bob Dylan and a Buddy Holly song to someone living with dementia in Calne,” said one of the team. “He was tapping his feet to it and seemed to really enjoy the experience.”
If you are a carer, or a family member at home with someone who could benefit from this in any way, contact the Wiltshire Music Team here. If you also let us know the type of music they especially enjoy, we can try and find musicians to suit their needs.
Thanks to local mum Ellie who told us about the regular YouTube Lets Go Live show from Cbeebies presenter Maddie Moate, airing each day at 11pm. Aimed at younger children (but enjoyed by older kids and grown-ups too!), the latest episodes include a wonderful guide to how our bodies work!
Find out more here
The Light Aircraft Association is running an Aviation Art Competition for aviation-minded kids, parents and grandparents. No rules, no sizes – just fun!
Entries will split into three age categories, 5-8, 9-12 and 13-15, and can be drawn, painted or computer generated, before being sent to email hidden; JavaScript is required
Prizes will include tickets to one of the Shuttleworth Collection’s spectacular air shows at Old Warden in Bedfordshire.