Children's Art Week
About Children's Art Week
Children’s Art Week is a UK-wide programme run by Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education and is taking place at London Transport Museum from 29 June to 19 July.
Join us as we dive into our collection to explore the rich design heritage of London’s transport.
From the moquette designs on the seats we sit on to the posters we walk past and the fonts we use, artists and designers have had an important role in shaping our everyday journeys on TfL’s network.
This Children’s Art Week, we’re inviting Key Stage 2 (KS2) learners to join us for a week of virtual workshops, as well as digital and downloadable resources to support classroom learning.
If you are interested in booking onto any of our workshops or attending our virtual events please email [email protected].
Events
Poster Worlds (virtual)
Step into a magical world of posters and discover London as you’ve never seen it before in this virtual workshop for KS2 learners.
Use this 30 min virtual webinar to explore TfL’s Johnston typeface and learn from graphic designer Chris Ratcliffe about his design process and all things type.
Join us this Children's Art Week as we take you on a journey behind the scenes at our museum store at our Depot in Acton.
Resources
All About Moquette
All About Moquette will support you and your class to find out all about this special fabric and its design. You’ll even have the opportunity to design your own moquette fabric.
Don’t forget to test your knowledge with our moquette quiz at the end (answers in the teachers notes).
Curriculum links: art and design, maths
Teachers notes
Explore shape, colour, pattern and design with our KS2 moquette resource. Our teachers notes accompany our all about moquette resource and have all the information you’ll need and help you prepare.
With over 30,000 posters in our collection, this resource supports you and your class to take a closer look at some of our posters, complete with design briefs and creative suggestions to support you creating your very own posters.
Use this 30 min pre-recorded virtual webinar to deliver a creative Art and Design session in the classroom. It helps your students delve inside our poster store, explore London’s green spaces and how they have been depicted to passengers through posters on the transport network over the last 100 years.
Hear what some of our experts have to say about how different artists have captured our natural spots and outdoor spaces.
You can follow up from this virtual webinar with our downloadable resource to create your own poster using texture, colour and found materials to show off your favourite local parks, forests, lakes and ponds!
Curriculum links: Art and Design, Geography, History
We look at type everyday but what is it actually trying to tell us? How do designers decide what a font is going to look like?
Use this 30 min virtual webinar with your students to explore TfL’s Johnston typeface and learn from graphic designer Chris Ratcliffe about his design process and all things type. The webinar will lead you and your students through a creative making activity, and kick-start learning how to design your own typeface or carry on after the session.
Use our downloadable resource to create your own poem inspired by the Poems on the Underground, topped with a title in your own bespoke font!
This session is a pre-recorded virtual webinar teachers can use to deliver a creative Art and Design session in the classroom.
Please ensure you read and use our Talking Type Teachers resource to best prepare for and use this virtual webinar with your class.
More activities
Looking for some more poster and art themed activities for your class? Why not check out some of our family activities!
Are you an expert poster designer? Try out our design activities inspired by our vintage poster collection
Bring some colour to some classic designs from our poster collection with our colouring in sheets
Design your own moquette patterns - choose from six templates you might recognise from trains old and new
It’s London’s most iconic logo - but if you could change it, what would you do? Download our activity sheets below to design and colour your own roundels.
