Welcome to a special episode of Craft Club for Refugee Week. The creative activity is brought to you by Rana, an artist who works in museums. Rana will tell you about the journey which inspired her zig-zag book and she will tell you how you can create your own.
Materials list:
- 4 sheets of thick A4 paper or card
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Sticky tape
- Bowl of warm water
You can decide which images to use in your book after watching the video
Refugee Week 2021
Welcome to a special episode of Time Travel TV, for Refugee Week 2021.
Learn about the story of refugee children who came to Britain in 1937, and think what ‘home’ means to you.
You will have the opportunity to listen to a real story about a Basque family
What can we learn from documents about Basque children’s experiences in refugee camps?
Join Emily and Nigel, who will show you how to create your own pop-up Christmas card using documents from the collection as inspiration! You’ll enjoy crafting special cards for your friends and family as well as seeing a showcase of more festive greetings from the archives.
Materials List
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Colouring pencils
- Glue stick
- Thick and think marker pens
- Ruler
- Piece of card, or back of cereal box
- Few sheets of A4 paper
- Watercolour paints (optional)
- Templates (pdf) downloaded from webpage
This is one of the most unusual documents at The National Archives. Can you work out what it is and why we have it?
What is this curious object?