Activities for kids

Activities for kids
A range of creative ideas, craft activities, videos and online learning resources to bring our museums and galleries into your homes.

Leeds Art Gallery’s Art Quest

Find some of your favourite artworks mapped out in our brand new Art Quest! From the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth to classical paintings in the Ziff Gallery, there’s loads to track down on our family fun trail.

Learn more and download the trail

Make & Do

Minibeast activities

Created by Leeds City Museum. Various resources.

Get stuck in to the wonderful world of creepy crawlies and minibeasts with our range of videos and activity sheets to download.

The Joy of Small Things

Created by Leeds City Museum. Facebook videos.

Have a go at some of our teeny craft activities inspired by the collections at Leeds City Museum using our video tutorials on facebook.

Mummification activities

Created by Leeds City Museum. Various resources

The outer decorative coffin of Nesyamun, on display at Leeds City Museum

Find out about the Ancient Egyptians with our range of mummification activities, inspired by the Ancient Worlds gallery at Leeds City Museum.

Design your own crown

Created by Temple Newsam. PDF download (17.9MB).

Use our template to design your very own crown fit for a King or Queen. Add some materials from around the house!

Make an Anglo Saxon shield

Created by Temple Newsam. PDF download (2MB).

Two bearded men dressed as an Anglo saxons on either side of a child holding a cardboard shield

Design and make your very own shield suitable for all little warriors!

Create your own Sakura

Created by Lotherton. YouTube video.

Create your own Sakura (cherry blossom) using recyclable materials.

Create your own flick book

Created by Leeds Industrial Museum. PDF download (3MB)

Make a moving image inspired by the early years of film making and the collections of Leeds Industrial Museum’s Media Galleries.

Craft and create a magic key

Created by Temple Newsam. PDF download (3MB).

A selection of homemade keys laid out on a wooden table. Some of the keys have been shaped by pipe cleaners, Lego and clay.

Take inspiration from the original inventory of Temple Newsam to create a key from household materials.

Patterns and shapes with textiles

Created by Temple Newsam. PDF download (29MB).

Make bright and beautiful decorations inspired by textiles of Temple Newsam.

Sew and weave a wooly sheep

Created by Temple Newsam. PDF download (18.4MB).

Make a wooly friend inspired by our springtime babies at Home Farm and the collections of Temple Newsam House.

Make your own Roman Mosaic

Created by Leeds City Museum. YouTube video.

Detail from Mosaic depicting the She-wolf with Romulus and Remus, from Aldborough, 300-400 AD, Leeds City Museum

Create your own Roman style mosaic at home with Emma from Leeds City Museum.

Print with fruit and veg

Created by Leeds City Museum. PDF download (0.2MB).

Artwork created used fruit and veg dipped in paint

Create interesting shapes and patterns using every day food items.

Carve a banana dolphin

Created by Leeds City Museum. Youtube video.

Find out how to make a dolphin from a banana! Follow our video tutorial and get stuck in.

Art at home

Mindful Creatives: Island in the Sun

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (2.5MB).

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Mindful Creatives: Anemones and Lemons

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (2.5MB).

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Create a poem with Khadijah Ibrahiim

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. YouTube video.

Sketchbooks of sculpture words and drawings by Reception children from Stanningley Primary have been used by Leeds’ poet Khadjiah Ibrahim to make this poem about their visit. Create a poem of your own inspired by the art you can find in your home.

Mindful Creatives: Blue Still Life

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (1.5MB).

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Mindful Creatives: Interior with a Chinese Screen

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (2.5MB).

Digital artwork showing a room interior with a Chinese Screen

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Mindful Creatives: The Sognefjord, Norway

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (2.9MB).

Digital sketch of The Sognefjord, Norway

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Mindful Creatives: The Lady of Shalott

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (3MB).

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Mindful Creatives: The Return of Persephone

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (4MB).

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Mindful Creatives: Dawn Souvenir of the Alps

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (3.1MB).

Join the Leeds Art Gallery team for mindful colouring-in activities inspired by the collections.

Creative colouring in

Created by Temple Newsam. Facebook post.

A weekly colouring in session from Temple Newsam with changing themes each week. Share your creative skills with us on Facebook!

Colouring in sheets

Created by Abbey House Museum. PDF download (0.8MB).

Have fun colouring in an object from Abbey House Museum and a morning scene from Kirkstall Abbey.

Home Farm colouring in

Created by Temple Newsam. PDF download (8MB).

a digital sketch of four cows from the front

Have fun with Home Farm colouring in sheets, featuring our favourite farmyard friends and machinery found on the farm.

Sculpture colouring book

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (10MB).

A colouring book of drawings by young people from Bankside Primary school, selected by each class during workshops inspired by sculptures in the Leeds art collection.

Artwork colouring book

Created by Leeds Art Gallery. PDF download (9MB).

A colouring book of drawings of artworks made by young people from Leeds. See how looking at artworks can inspire drawing, and how drawings of them can inspire new art.

Games and quizzes

Mix & Match Mill Terms

Created by Thwaite Watermill. PDF download (1MB).

Match the mill terminology from Thwaite Watermill and show off your knowledge of the mill space during your next visit.

Thwaite Watermill Putty Challenge

Created by Thwaite Watermill. PDF download (2MB).

Reorder the boxes to learn all about how putty was made at Thwaite Watermill.

The History of Thwaite Watermill

Created by Thwaite Watermill. PDF download (2MB).

Take on our chronological challenge and uncover the story behind the historical site of Thwaite Watermill.

Thwaite Watermill rock challenge

Created by Thwaite Watermill. PDF download (0.6MB).

Chalk on blackboard drawing of two people pushing and pulling a very large mechanical cog

Match the rock types found at Thwaite Watermill to their description and uses.

Really wild art trail and bingo

Created by Lotherton. PDF download (0.7MB).

Create a wild piece of art using things you find. Go on a Spring nature hunt to complete our Really Wild Spring Bingo!

Weekend creative challenge

Created by Lotherton and Wildlife World. Resource folder.

A weekly creative challenge using an animal from Wildlife World or a museum object as subjects.

Teaching and learning resources

Recovery Curriculum

Discover our range of free teaching resources to support your school’s recovery curriculum and find out more about our virtual Arts Award Discover package.

Find out more

Leeds Curriculum

MyLearning resource.

Teach and learn across the primary curriculum through the wonderful city of Leeds.

Prehistory

MyLearning resource.

Explore the stone age through to the iron age and beyond with MyLearning.

Science

MyLearning resource.

From natural science to geology, explore the MyLearning science resources.

Museum from Home resources

Created by Leeds Discovery Centre. Online resource folder.

Use our Museum from Home videos on Youtube and additional teaching resources.

This little piggy activity sheet

Created by Abbey House Museum. PDF download (0.08MB).

Five storytelling and craft activities based around a little clockwork piggy made in Germany in about 1935.

Cybermen activity sheet

Created by Abbey House Museum. PDF download (0.1MB).

Seven fun activities based around one of Dr Who’s scariest enemies – the Cybermen!

Miss Maude had a dolly activity sheet

Created by Abbey House Museum. PDF download (0.1MB).

Learn about the materials used to make dolls and take part in activities to learn more.

Activities for kids