Edinburgh Art Festival – DIY Art: Home Creativity Kits!

Edinburgh Art Festival have created a series of free DIY Art activity packs specially designed by artists, inviting you to get creative at home.

The instructional creativity kits give insight into an artist’s practice, showing how you can use their processes and techniques to create your own unique artwork!

There are two activity packs Waiting Painting by Alexa Hare which asks you to slow down and use the act of listening as a starting point for creating your own visual statements combining writing, paint and collage.  Housemates by Sofia Niazi is an art pack inviting young people and their family/carer to explore their homes in new ways.  To identify interesting patterns using books, newspapers or magazines to combine collage and drawing to create colourful creatures, animals and people to populate and brighten your home.