Resources and support
Planning an event
Participants in Children's Art Day activities should be able to actively engage with visual art through looking, discussing and or/making.
Your event should allow participants to experience one or more of the following:
- encounters with a gallery or museum
- working with an artist
- responding to material such as a work of art, photograph, landscape, or figure.
Your event could be quite straightforward, or weird and wonderful. It could be planned especially for Children's Art Day,
or part of a programme or festival, and can take place indoors, out on location, in a gallery or artist's studio, and so on.
In 2009, events included:
- Drawing and sculpture workshops
- Wig-making, mobile-making, kite-making, flag-making…
- A 'foraging bonanza' in a park, resulting in the production of a 360° drawing
- A 'Creative Conference' at a town hall, where schoolchildren devised art activities and spent the day carrying them out with artists.
If you are from a London School planning to enter work produced during Children's Art Day for the Look Out London competition,
please note that there are more detailed criteria here.
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Risk assessment and safety
If your event takes place outside your usual environment (classroom, gallery etc), you may find the links under
'Guidance on planning journeys' in the Useful Links section below helpful.
See the section on 'Photo Permission' here for information about asking for permission to
photograph event participants.
Please refer to engage's External Child Protection Policy for further
information, or contact engage on 020 7729 5858.
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Useful links
Working with artists
Looking at art works
Planning a visit to a venue
Resources on drawing
Guidance on planning journeys
Resources on outdoor learning
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