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What’s On Week Beginning 6th April Monday Pottery - Fairy Doors, 6.30pm, (Facebook Live) You will need: Palm sized ball of clay, sculpting tools such as cutlery If you don't have clay, you can use plasticine/fimo/playdoh or try making some salt dough - there's loads of tutorials online. Wednesday Mini Makers - Become an Architect!, 10am, Google Hangout (Get in touch with us for the link) You will need: House templates (download here: https://bit.ly/2QZCO6w) or you can draw yo

We’re going to be going live on Facebook and sharing videos of activities for you to follow along and get creative at home. Every week we'll let you know the resources you need on a Thursday so that you're prepared to join in from the following Monday. So that as many people can join in as possible, most of the materials you need will hopefully be lying around your house. Please share what you get up to with the hashtags #creativewiganandleigh #makeitdigital and tag us @wigan

It's #techtuesday! 💻😍Every Tuesday we'll be sharing something cool to do using the internet or technology. Today we're sharing some of our favourite museums that you can walk around on Google Maps! So take some time to take a wander around the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico, The Getty Museum in LA, The British Museum in London, and The Tokyo Fuji Museum. 💐Museo Frida Kahlo: https://buff.ly/2WmkHeq 🏛️The British Museum: https://buff.ly/33BTohS 🌄Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: https:

Whilst we're being advised to minimize our social contact, we're looking for creative ways for people to stay connected and feel less alone...here's our first idea! Send a postcard saying hello to a friend or family member with our template! Simply download and print the blank template and colour it in (if you don't have a printer, you could draw your own template, or you could colour it in on a tablet or mobile phone). Then, either photograph/scan it and send it to your frie

Starting from Monday 23rd March, we’re going to be going live on Facebook and sharing videos of activities for you to follow along and get creative at home. Every week we'll let you know the resources you need on a Thursday so that you're prepared to join in from the following Monday. So that as many people can join in as possible, most of the materials you need will hopefully be lying around your house - the rest you’ll be able to pick up from Wigan STEAM every Saturday (sta

Here's our second roundup of online resources to keep you learning and creating during this period of social distancing. For this list we've taken a look at all of the places you can access free learning resources to teach yourself to code and get creative with technology. Before you read on, take a look at Wash Your Lyrics. Have you heard the people telling you to sing Happy Birthday whilst you wash your hands? Well now you can generate your own hand washing poster, complete

We're moving as much of our delivery online as we can for the foreseeable. We'll be providing you with online resources to keep your creative juices flowing during this period, alongside setting up hangouts for our community to continue socializing, and sharing live maker tutorials and creative prompts! It's going to take a little while to get going, but we hope you can join us. Share what you get up to with the hashtags #creativewiganandleigh #makeitdigital Here's our first